The Velvet Sundown amassed more than 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify before creators revealed that the band was made using artificial intelligence "Not quite human. Not quite machine. The ...

A band called The Velvet Sundown has launched a debut album on Spotify, and the group has quickly racked up over a million listeners. And though the group's aesthetic and sound seem lifted out of the ...

In June, a new band calling themselves The Velvet Sundown emerged, racking up a million monthly Spotify listeners in the process. The two albums they had available to stream, Floating On Echoes ...

"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.