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

Things that are fake have sometimes even more impact than things that are real,” a band spokesperson tells Rolling Stone ...

The Velvet Sundown has dropped two albums and has plans for a third. The internet has slapped an "AI" label on the band.

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 ...

A group of Scottish songwriters and performers has warned musicians risk being “AI-brushed” out of existence unless urgent ...

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

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 ...

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

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

A "band" that sparked a heated debate for heavily relying on generative AI — and still somehow accumulating over half a ...