The AI 'band' Velvet Sundown's Spotify page also denies "spokesperson" Andrew Frelon's affiliation with the group ...

A few weeks ago Timbaland unveiled the not-human artist TaTa, who was the first signee of his AI record label Stage Zero. Now there’s a new AI-generated act on the scene called the Velvet ...

The Velvet Sundown, an obviously fictional “band” that’s gone viral after somehow racking up more than 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify out of nowhere, used the generative-AI platform ...

AI band The Velvet Sundown is an "art hoax" and an act of "trolling," said a spokesperson in a new interview about the viral project.

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 ...

The Velvet Sundown has surged in popularity on Spotify with two albums released in June 2025, raising questions whether or not the psychedelic rock-folk band is real or AI generated. The Velvet ...

Artists "This is exactly what artists have been worried about – it's theft dressed up as competition": Who is behind The Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated band that blew up the internet?

It’s been confirmed – The Velvet Sundown are an AI band and their music was made using the AI tool Suno. According to (someone claiming to be) ‘band’ spokesperson and 'adjunct member ...

One such artist is The Velvet Sundown, a band with almost 350,000 monthly Spotify listeners but no discernible online presence or social media accounts. ("There's not a shred of evidence on the ...

The Velvet Sundown is raising suspicions of being an AI-generated band, with no online presence, bad lyrics, and odd promo images.

Five excited and deserving families have been revealed as the winners of Sundown Adventureland’s ‘Faces of Sundown’ Competition.