Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An AI generated image of The Velvet Sundown, a fictional band which has released synthetic music on Spotify as part of an ‘art ...

A fresh new rock band that quickly shot to Spotify’s top ranks announced that it’s actually wholly generated by artificial intelligence, just one month after its celebrated debut album earned it one ...

Rock music is dead, they said. At least, it is dead as a popular genre. To be fair, rock has fallen by the wayside from the cultural-zeitgeist perspective. Hair metal gave way to grunge back in the ...

The Velvet Sundown isn’t real after all. The indie rock band recently broke onto the scene, racking up more than 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify. All was not what it seemed, though, as the band ...

"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.