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 ...

Feedback tries to work out if a new indie rock band is releasing AI-generated music, and eventually decides to lean into this ...

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

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

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

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’. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Frelon said: “It’s marketing. It’s trolling.

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

First, a new AI-generated psych rock "band" called the Velvet Sundown became popular, as of this writing earning close to 900 ...

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 ...

What is going on with The Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated country band with one million Spotify listeners and a very complicated backstory?