The Velvet Sundown confirmed Saturday that its viral success is powered by artificial intelligence.

Update July 3, 2025: The pseudonymous Andrew Frelon, who spoke to Rolling Stone on Wednesday as a spokesperson for the viral AI band Velvet Sundown, and runs a Twitter account that purports to ...

A Canadian who duped journalists in an elaborate AI music hoax says he apologizes to anyone hurt by his experiment but that it's been "too fascinating" to turn away from.A man using the pseudonym ...

The real person behind Andrew Frelon is an expert on web platform safety and policy issues, with extensive experience using generative AI. He was born in the United States but lives in Canada.

The Velvet Sundown, Spotify's mysterious breakout band, shocked the music industry by gaining over 400,000 monthly listeners ...

The pseudonymous Andrew Frelon, who spoke to Rolling Stone on Wednesday as a spokesperson for the viral AI band The Velvet Sundown, and runs a Twitter account that purports to represent the band ...

Yesterday Rolling Stone ran an interview with Andrew Frelon, a guy who claimed to be a spokesperson and “adjunct” member of the Velvet Sundown, a “band” made with AI whose songs have now ...

On June 2, Rolling Stone published an interview with Andrew Frelon, a man claiming to be a spokesperson for The Velvet Sundown. Frelon claimed that the band was an "art hoax" designed to "troll ...

Over the following week, the band went viral, more than doubling their monthly listener count (a figure that's now bordering on a million) and provoking heated debate surrounding the group's identity, ...

After stories broke that the band may not exist, the band’s Spotify bio was updated to read that artificial intelligence had been used.