An AI band called The Velvet Sundown reached 500,000 listeners on Spotify in weeks, but few people realized it was AI slop.

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Whether that content counts as "art" depends on who you ask, but Spotify doesn't discriminate. A new band called The Velvet ...

Indie band Deerhoof will remove their catalog from Spotify to protest CEO Daniel Ek's leading a $700 million round in an AI ...

The "band" has released two albums within three weeks of one another on a streaming service that does not differentiate ...

San Francisco indie-rock band Deerhoof is pulling its music in protest of CEO Daniel Ek's $700 million investment in a ...

A band accused of being AI-generated has issued a statement on X, hitting back at the viral claims. In June 2025, Spotify ...

The creators behind Aventhis and other AI ‘artists’ might not actually own the rights to the music they upload to streaming ...

Not enough music people are actually paying attention to this Velvet Sundown situation. The future of streaming services is ...

Aventhis, who doesn’t exist, has over a million monthly Spotify listeners. Everything appears to be in order – but it’s not.

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A seemingly non-existent band have more than half a million Spotify ‘listeners’, but the numbers they’re piling up are just ...