Have you heard of the band The Velvet Sundown? They’re blowing up right now, racking up more than a million monthly listeners on Spotify - which is pretty good going for a group that formed less than ...

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AI-generated images of musical artists The Velvet Sundown and Breaking Rust. Music created by artificial intelligence (AKA AI-generated music) is now topping the record charts. Let that sink in for a ...

The Velvet Sundown appeared seemingly out of nowhere on Spotify in early 2024, quickly accumulating hundreds of thousands of listeners with tracks like “Midnight Drive” and “Ocean Eyes.” The band’s ...

The AI band The Velvet Sundown, who currently have over 900,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, have officially admitted — in a new revision to their Spotify bio — what was obvious to experts and ...

The Velvet Sundown recently became wildly popular on Spotify. What does it sound like? Definitively generic. But try it for yourself. Jon Garelick is a retired Globe Opinion staff member who writes ...

Who is The Velvet Sundown? Or, perhaps more accurately: What is The Velvet Sundown? The suspected AI band has been shrouded in mystery as its popularity grew to more than 500,000 monthly listeners on ...

A band called The Velvet Sundown has launched a debut album on Spotify, and the group has quickly racked up over a million listeners. And though the group's aesthetic and sound seem lifted out of the ...

Have you heard of The Velvet Sundown? It's kind of like The Velvet Underground, except The Velvet Underground is definitely real, and the jury is still out for The Velvet Sundown. The band's photos ...

Update: there’s been even more drama, but the upshot is that the band has copped to using AI — more details here. An “indie rock band” called The Velvet Sundown, which is marketing its music with ...

The Velvet Sundown burst onto the music scene in early June and in the space of just a few weeks gained an astonishing 400,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. But its bland music style, hyper-realistic ...

"Not quite human. Not quite machine. The Velvet Sundown lives somewhere in between," the band's creator wrote in their official bio Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025.