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It's tough as a band to record, release, and market two new albums in under 30 days, but it's much easier if all of the music ...
Frelon said he created The Velvet Sundown tracks using the generative-AI tool Suno before posting them on Spotify, where the ...
A 'spokesperson' for The Velvet Sundown that gave a statement to Rolling Stone earlier this week has now revealed that he's ...
To no one's surprise, the fakery has now been confirmed. Band members Gabe Farrow, Lennie West, Milo Rains and Orion "Rio" ...
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 ...
The Velvet Sundown, an indie psych rock band with a verified profile on Spotify, has been accused of releasing music ...
First, a new AI-generated psych rock "band" called the Velvet Sundown became popular, as of this writing earning close to 900 ...
The AI 'band' Velvet Sundown's Spotify page also denies "spokesperson" Andrew Frelon's affiliation with the group ...
The Velvet Sundown, a band that has garnered over 700,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and faces AI allegations, has been ...
The person behind a "band" that sparked a heated debate for heavily relying on generative AI has finally admitted the truth.
According to (someone claiming to be) ‘band’ spokesperson and 'adjunct member' Andrew Frelon, the whole thing is an ‘art hoax ...