Violet Grohl has announced plans to release her debut album ‘Be Sweet To Me’ and shared rollicking new single ‘595’ – check out all the details below.
The Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, who is the daughter of Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, is set to drop her first LP via Auroura Records/Republic Records/Island Records UK on May 29.
It will be available in black, blueberry jam (exclusive to indie retailers) and ivory vinyl (exclusive to the official artist store). You can pre-order it here.
She has already shared two tracks from the record – ‘Thum’ and ‘Applefish’ – after she signed a record deal in January.
Now, she has dropped another single ‘595’, which according to a press release is “inspired by a vintage t-shirt advertising a phone sex line” and features the lyrics: “I’ll be your 1-900-G spot, baby / 595 I’m on the line / You won’t last.” You can view the video for it below.
‘Be Sweet To Me’ was recorded from late 2024 into early 2025 at producer Justin Raisen’s (Kim Gordon, Charli XCX, Sky Ferreira) Los Angeles home studio alongside musicians assembled in the “spirit of the Wrecking Crew session players in the ’60s and ’70s”, according to a press release.
Grohl said it was influenced by alternative music in the late and ’80s and ’90s. “There’s something so powerful about that period of music, from the messaging to the visuals, it’s authentic and raw. I’ve listened to that stuff since I was a kid,” she added.
She also recently shared the David Lynch-inspired ‘What’s Heaven Without You’ to mark the first anniversary of the iconic director’s death. The track will be available with B-Side ‘Swallowtail’ as an exclusive 7 inch release on Record Store Day on April 18.
The full tracklisting for ‘Be Sweet To Me’ is:
1. ‘Thum’
2. ‘595’
3. ‘Bug In The Cake’
4. ‘Last Day I Loved You’
5. ‘Big Memory’
6. ‘Mobile Stars’
7. ‘Often Others’
8. ‘Applefish’
9. ‘Cool Buzz’
10. ‘Pool Of My Dream’
11. ‘Plastic Couch’
Elsewhere, her father recently revealed that he had “no idea” that his daughter had signed a record deal until she told him at dinner.
“So Violent, my daughter – she’s 19, about to turn 20 – she made this album with a producer named Justin Raisen, and she did it on her own,” he began. “She met the producer, and they would go to the studio every day and she would send me songs when she was finished. But I had absolutely nothing to do with this record at all.”
He went on to say that while he would have loved to be more hands-on with the project, he was left unaware of the massive progress she was making until she sat down and told him.
“I had no idea. I knew she was looking to sign a record deal, and she was like, ‘Hey dad, can I come over for dinner tonight?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, sure. What do you want me to make?’ And she came over and told me, like, ‘I signed my record deal today.’ I’m just like, ‘Oh my God!’ So, I’m totally uninvolved,” he added. “I’m the dad who wants to be there and know everything. And she’s just totally doing her own thing. It’s amazing.”
The two of them have worked together musically before, and released a cover version of ‘Nausea’ – originally by Los Angeles punks X – in 2021.
She began hitting the road with Foo Fighters in 2018, providing backing vocals at numerous gigs. She also performed with them at the tribute concerts held for late drummer Taylor Hawkins in 2022, and after featuring on the band’s 2023 song ‘Show Me How’, she appeared with them at that year’s Glastonbury to perform the track.
Last year, the surviving members of Nirvana – Dave, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear – reunited for a four-song set at the Fire Aid benefit concert in LA, and Violet joined for lead vocals on ‘All Apologies’.
