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Violet Grohl’s Debut Album ‘Be Sweet To Me’ Arrives With a Sold-Out Tour and a Television Debut

May 29, 2026

Violet Grohl’s debut album ‘Be Sweet To Me’ is out today via Auroura Records / Republic Records, and it arrives loud, fully formed, and with a sold-out headline tour already underway. The first show kicks off tonight in Los Angeles at the Moroccan Lounge.

The album was recorded at producer Justin Raisen’s Los Angeles home studio, assembled in the spirit of the Wrecking Crew session players of the ’60s and ’70s. The sound draws perpetual influence from the alternative landscape of the late ’80s and early ’90s, with Pixies, Soundgarden, Cocteau Twins, The Breeders, PJ Harvey, The Muffs, Björk, Alice in Chains, L7, and Juliana Hatfield all in the DNA. “I’ve listened to that stuff since I was a kid,” Grohl says.

Every song was written in the studio, built from scratch around inspiration playlists that shifted constantly. “Violet is so well-versed in all styles of music; every playlist was different,” says Raisen, describing assemblages that ranged from trip hop and new wave to Scandinavian black metal, ’70s acoustic folk, and vocal jazz. “She showed me a number of things that I wasn’t familiar with; her encyclopedic knowledge of music is crazy.”

The results are already drawing serious critical attention. NYLON calls her “the most authentic successor we’ve had to ’90s alt rock in a long time.” SPIN describes the songs as arriving “loud, fuzzy and dangerously catchy.” Both assessments track. ‘Be Sweet To Me’ is a debut that doesn’t ease in gently.

Also out today is the music video for album track “Bug in the Cake,” directed by Nikki Milan Houston. It joins previously released singles “THUM,” “595,” and “Cool Buzz” as an early window into the album’s world. Grohl makes her television debut on June 3 on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

The headline tour has already sold out Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and Pukkelpop in Belgium. June 1 brings an in-store performance at Rough Trade NYC. European festival dates at Lowlands, Leeds, Electric Picnic, and Reading follow in August, with Shaky Knees, CBGB, and All Things Go rounding out the fall, and Corona Capital in Mexico closing the year in November. Two dates in June feature support from The Breeders.

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