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

What is going on with The Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated country band with one million Spotify listeners and a very complicated backstory?

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 ...

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

A man using the pseudonym Andrew Frelon posed as the spokesperson for a band called The Velvet Sundown — which he later said he had no involvement with — creating a media frenzy that propelled the ...

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.

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

Earlier this week, Rolling Stone reported that a spokesperson for the band, Andrew Frelon, had told them that The Velvet Sundown used the AI tool Suno to generate their music.