A 'spokesperson' for The Velvet Sundown that gave a statement to Rolling Stone earlier this week has now revealed that he's ...

A Velvet Sundown X account that’s linked to from the band’s Spotify page messaged Rolling Stone early Thursday morning asking ...

A Canadian who duped journalists in an elaborate hoax involving Spotify, AI and a suspicious rock band says he apologizes to ...

The plot has thickened tremendously. Yesterday Rolling Stone ran an interview with Andrew Frelon, a guy who claimed to be a ...

AI-generated band The Velvet Sundown fooled 500k Spotify listeners with fake personas, exposing streaming platform's ...

The Velvet Sundown, an indie psych rock band with a verified profile on Spotify, has been accused of releasing music ...

The Velvet Sundown confirmed Saturday that its viral success is powered by artificial intelligence.

The Velvet Sundown, a band that has garnered over 700,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and faces AI allegations, has been ...

According to (someone claiming to be) ‘band’ spokesperson and 'adjunct member' Andrew Frelon, the whole thing is an ‘art hoax ...

The person behind a "band" that sparked a heated debate for heavily relying on generative AI has finally admitted the truth.

After an "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown refused to admit that its output was AI slop, the outfit is now singing ...

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. But ...