The pseudonymous Andrew Frelon, who spoke to Rolling Stone on Wednesday as a spokesperson for the viral AI band The Velvet ...

A mysterious band called "The Velvet Sundown" has exploded onto streaming platforms like Spotify, but are they even real?

A mysterious band called “The Velvet Sundown” has exploded onto streaming platforms like Spotify, racking up nearly a million ...

The band supposedly behind two new albums of 1970s-style AOR have proved impossible to track down in real life ...

Perhaps you, too, have had the displeasure of stumbling across the Velvet Sundown on Spotify or social media. The psych-rock “band” made headlines last month after they’d amassed hundreds of thousands ...

The Velvet Sundown has nearly 600,000 monthly Spotify listeners, but the band doesn't exist. Here's how to identify ...

"It's marketing; it's trolling," pseudonymous “adjunct” Velvet Sundown member Andrew Frelon admitted in a new interview.

A mysterious band called “The Velvet Sundown” has exploded onto streaming platforms likeSpotify, racking up nearly a million streams in just a few weeks with a 60s rock-inspired ...

But Spotify actually has no rules against AI music. Former Spotify data analyst Glenn McDonald has said that “fake listeners ...

To no one's surprise, the fakery has now been confirmed. Band members Gabe Farrow, Lennie West, Milo Rains and Orion "Rio" ...

The Velvet Sundown, a supposed indie band, has shot up Spotify charts with AI-generated music and images, blurring the line ...