Violet Grohl delivered a stripped-down cowl of The Treatment’s “Excessive” for Triple J’s Like a Model sequence, buying and selling the unique’s layered guitar work for a barebones acoustic association constructed round her personal vocal.
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“I really like the childlike pleasure of the lyrics… it’s such a cute love music,” Grohl instructed Triple J of the 1992 single, the lead monitor from The Treatment’s Want. She stated “Excessive” has been a private favourite for years, and traced her fandom for the band again to age 12 or 13, when listening to “Friday I’m in Love” despatched her deep into their catalog.
“I feel it’s an ideal instance of their sound in the course of the early ’90s,” she stated, “and I really like all of the imagery within the lyricism.” Grohl stated she aimed to seize a “teenage crush form of feeling” within the efficiency, including of Treatment frontman Robert Smith: “I am keen on Robert Smith… I might hope that they’d at the very least assume it was okay.” She additionally carried out her personal music “595,” from her debut album, in the identical acoustic setting.
The dreamy association tracks with the sound of Be Candy to Me, Grohl’s debut album, launched Could 29 by way of Auroura and Republic Data. Recorded throughout 2024 and 2025, the undertaking attracts on different rock from the late ’80s and early ’90s, with Grohl citing The Treatment, Cocteau Twins, the Pixies, Soundgarden and the Breeders as touchstones. “There’s one thing so highly effective about that interval of music, from the messaging to the visuals,” she stated in a press release asserting the album. “It’s genuine and uncooked.”
Grohl, the eldest daughter of Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl — who’s been inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame each with Nirvana (2014) and Foo Fighters (2021) — has spent years constructing towards a solo profession across the household’s musical orbit. She’s contributed backing vocals to Foo Fighters tracks together with “Present Me How,” which hit No. 21 on Sizzling Laborious Rock Songs in 2023, and carried out on the band’s 2022 tribute live shows for late drummer Taylor Hawkins.
In 2021, she and her father recorded a canopy of X’s “Nausea,” which they later carried out collectively on Jimmy Kimmel Stay! alongside Krist Novoselic, Dave Lombardo and Greg Kurstin — although that look got here as a visitor alongside her father, not beneath her personal identify. Her true TV debut as a billed solo artist got here in June, when she carried out “Bug within the Cake” with a full band on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Grohl made her personal Billboard chart debut earlier this 12 months when “THUM” entered the Grownup Various Airplay chart at No. 38 — a small however symbolic milestone given her father’s personal chart document with Foo Fighters, who’ve logged 44 songs on the Various Airplay chart, tied with U2 for essentially the most within the format’s historical past.
She’s set to play a run of U.S. festivals this fall, together with Riot Fest, Shaky Knees, CBGB Competition, All Issues Go D.C. and Corona Capital, forward of her personal headlining U.S. tour and a stint supporting Beabadoobee on her upcoming European dates.
