“I WANTED TO MAKE A RECORD THAT SOUNDED BIGGER THAN ANY BANDS MY DUDE FRIENDS WERE IN”
—ALLEGRA WEINGARTEN
ETTA FRIEDMAN AND Allegra Weingarten, co-guitarists and vocalists for guitar-heavy indie-rock band Momma, are sitting on a Brooklyn stoop, still buzzing after spending their morning chatting up one of their ’90s alt-rock guitar heroes. “When I was a freshman in college, I taught myself how to play the solo from ‘Number One Blind’ by Veruca Salt,” Weingarten says. “I did those hammer-ons, and I was like, ‘Yo, what?’ And it’s crazy, ’cause we just finished having coffee with Louise Post literally an hour ago.”
The duo surely picked up a thing or two about songcraft from listening to the guitarist’s work with the recently reunited Veruca (Polyvinyl), Momma’s third long-player.
