Record labels' deals with AI music generation platforms bring more questions than answers heading into a crucial 2026.

A band called the Velvet Sundown made headlines last summer. They weren't the typical headlines associated with rock bands -- ...

Jethro Tull flautist Ian Anderson took to social media to rant over the improper use of AI that has caused fake fan accounts ...

Music industry professionals joined The Hollywood Reporter and the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music to look ahead as they co-hosted the inaugural Future of Music event on Thursday night.

I don’t want AI-generated music taking a moment of it away from me. Because it isn’t music. The utopian sales pitch that tech ...

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Who is The Velvet Sundown? Or, perhaps more accurately: What is The Velvet Sundown? The suspected AI band has been shrouded in mystery as its popularity grew to more than 500,000 monthly listeners on ...

Update: there’s been even more drama, but the upshot is that the band has copped to using AI — more details here. An “indie rock band” called The Velvet Sundown, which is marketing its music with ...

Artificial intelligence is everywhere in the music business, whether you recognize it or not. It’s there when you stream – every Spotify recommendation is the product of AI-driven algorithms – and ...

An exclusive, nationally representative survey of 2,244 Americans reveals a love-hate affair with AI music — and stark divisions across generations and party lines. By Erik Hayden Executive Editor, ...

In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice. At the time, I ...

"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.