The Velvet Sundown, is a rock band, that went viral on Spotify gathering more than 500,000 monthly listeners.

The thing is, they did it using AI Platform Suno, they are completely AI... "An art hoax" as one band member suggested. 

Here is more on this story, in Rolling Stone Magazine.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/velvet-sundown-ai-band-suno-1235377652/


This whole story is a bit confusing as the band says they are real, and yet, it is has been discovered to being a "hoax". 

Here is video on this and, it makes for a wild marketing idea and it takes AI into whole new place in the music biz and other media and art forms.

Is it real or is it Memorex?

Enjoy the video commentary below and share your thoughts and ideas. This story has got the music media reporters in a tizzy, that's for sure.










Here is another look at what this band is doing... and musicologist Rick Beato does a deeper dive into how to tell the difference between an AI generated song and a recorded song, using Led Zeppelin and a Carpenters song to differentiate an AI song versus is real live song.





 

Last edited by Muffaraw Joe (July 3, 2025 7:40 am)