The AI band The Velvet Sundown, who currently have over 900,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, have officially admitted — in a new revision to their Spotify bio — what was obvious to experts ...

Hall of Mirrors ‘Spokesperson’ for AI ‘Band’ Velvet Sundown Now Says He’s a Hoaxer The Velvet Sundown's Spotify page also denies "spokesperson" Andrew Frelon's affiliation with the group ...

Frelon said he created The Velvet Sundown tracks using the generative-AI tool Suno before posting them on Spotify, where the band now has more than a million monthly listeners. Case settled, then.

The Velvet Sundown on X: "All characters, stories, music, voices and lyrics are original creations generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence tools employed as creative instruments.

The Velvet Sundown’s AI saga is 2025’s weirdest music story The band has admitted to being a “synthetic music project,” but not before their story devolved to include scammers and an ...

A ’60s-flavored band blew up on Spotify. They’re AI. The Velvet Sundown confirmed Saturday that its viral success is powered by artificial intelligence.

A Velvet Sundown X account that’s linked to from the band’s Spotify page messaged Rolling Stone early Thursday morning asking for a correction and reiterating their disavowal of Frelon.

Remember The Velvet Sundown, that new Spotify group that people accused of being AI-generated? Welp, it turns out it's AI-generated. Or at least partly. Over the weekend, the band – which ...

Explaining the controversy surrounding The Velvet Sundown - the rock band that lied about being generated by artificial intelligence. How has this empty 'provocation' highlighted Spotify’s ...

AI-generated band “The Velvet Sundown” hits 500K Spotify listens in one month, and music fans are furious “Not enough music people are actually paying attention to this Velvet Sundown ...