{"id":65921,"date":"2026-06-04T06:33:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/watch-violet-grohls-performance-of-bug-in-the-cake-on-fallon\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:33:37","slug":"watch-violet-grohls-performance-of-bug-in-the-cake-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/watch-violet-grohls-performance-of-bug-in-the-cake-on-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Violet Grohl&#8217;s Performance of &#8216;Bug in the Cake&#8217; on &#8216;Fallon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/violet-grohl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_violet-grohl\" data-tag=\"violet-grohl\">Violet Grohl<\/a> appeared on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-tonight-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-tonight-show\" data-tag=\"the-tonight-show\">The Tonight Show<\/a><\/em> to perform her song \u201cBug in the Cake.\u201d The musician, the daughter of Foo Fighters\u2019 frontman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dave-grohl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dave-grohl\" data-tag=\"dave-grohl\">Dave Grohl<\/a>, showcased the rousing, grungy track alongside her live band. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cBug in the Cake\u201d comes off Grohl\u2019s debut album,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/violet-grohl-debut-album-be-sweet-to-me-announcement-1235528454\/\">Be Sweet to Me<\/a><\/em>, which arrived on May 29 via Auroura Records\/Republic Records.\u00a0The LP was recorded from late 2024 into early 2025 at producer Justin Raisen\u2019s Los Angeles home studio alongside musicians assembled in the spirit of the Wrecking Crew session players in the \u201960s and \u201970s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhen the album was announced, Grohl said she was inspired by alternative music from the late \u201880s and early \u201890s, including Pixies, Soundgarden, Cocteau Twins, and the Breeders. \u201cThere\u2019s something so powerful about that period of music, from the messaging to the visuals, it\u2019s authentic and raw,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cI\u2019ve listened to that stuff since I was a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Violet Grohl: Bug in the Cake | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qP87MkFX_IE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tGrohl, the eldest daughter of the\u00a0Foo Fighters\u00a0frontman, has been performing music for several years. In 2021, released a cover of X\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dave-grohl-daughter-violet-x-cover-nausea-1160234\/\">Nausea<\/a>\u201d made alongside her dad, which the duo later\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dave-grohl-nausea-cover-kimmel-1162180\/\">performed live<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<em>Jimmy Kimmel,\u00a0<\/em>joined by Krist Novoselic, Dave Lombardo, and Greg Kurstin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tShe\u2019s also performed numerous times on the road with the Foo Fighters, including joining them during their tribute concerts for late drummer Taylor Hawkins in 2022, and in 2023, she duetted with her dad on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/foo-fighters-show-me-first-concert-josh-freese-1234741965\/\">Show Me How<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/violet-grohl-nepo-baby-label-dont-care-1235544232\/\">recent interview<\/a>, Grohl said she knows the world considers her a nepo baby, but she doesn\u2019t care. \u201cObviously, doors are open for me because of my last name,\u201d the 19-year-old rising singer-songwriter told\u00a0<em>The Forty-Five<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s not something I\u2019m ever going to hide behind or say, \u2018No, I worked so hard for this! You guys shouldn\u2019t say that! That hurts my feelings.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t care, I really don\u2019t,\u201d she added. \u201cI\u2019ve heard that since I was 13 years old. So call me a nepo baby all you want. It\u2019s \u2018whatever\u2019 to me. I just hope that eventually people will give me a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/violet-grohl-bug-in-the-cake-performance-fallon-1235572204\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violet Grohl appeared on The Tonight Show to perform her song \u201cBug in the Cake.\u201d The musician, the daughter of Foo Fighters\u2019 frontman Dave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":65922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}