The Velvet Sundown, via Instagram . The Velvet Sundown burst onto the music scene in early June and in the space of just a few weeks gained an astonishing 400,000 monthly listener

The plot has thickened tremendously. Yesterday Rolling Stone ran an interview with Andrew Frelon, a guy who claimed to be a spokesperson and “adjunct” member of the Velvet Sundown, a “band” made with AI whose songs have now garnered over a million streams total on Spotify.

To no one's surprise, the fakery has now been confirmed. Band members Gabe Farrow, Lennie West, Milo Rains and Orion "Rio" Del Ma don't exist, but spokesman Andrew Frelon (not his real name) does, and, in an interview with Rolling Stone, he's come clean.