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The Velvet Sundown explained: What’s behind the Spotify-verified AI band controversy?

Explaining the controversy surrounding The Velvet Sundown - the rock band that lied about being generated by artificial intelligence. How has this empty 'provocation' highlighted Spotify’s alleged dubious practices – chiefly, avoiding paying royalties - and confirmed fears about generative AI?

Euronews

Netflix hidden gem with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score unearthed

’Near-perfect’ series is buried deep within streaming service’s library

The Independent UK

‘People want to hear music that’s real’: Why salsa is back in the spotlight

IN FOCUS: From US No 1 albums by Bad Bunny to viral DJ sets by Gia Fu, the 1970s Latin party genre is having a moment. Kate Hutchinson speaks to Fu, Nathy Peluso and more about how salsa has bubbled up from the club underground and into the charts

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Android users can now "Jam" together with this new Spotify feature

Spotify's latest update introduces the popular "Jam" feature to Android Auto, enabling multiple users to collaboratively control music in a vehicle via QR code.

Android Central

Android Auto gets a big Spotify upgrade to make musical journeys more fun

Android Auto gets a Spotify feature to keep your passengers happy.

"Shirley Manson sings like a pissed-off angel and has attitude to spare": Garbage's classic electro-grunge-goth-pop debut, revisited

Combining Massive Attack with Nine Inch Nails and the Smashing Pumpkins was always a great elevator pitch

Louder

Dishonored and Prey studio founder thinks Xbox Game Pass "is an unsustainable model" that's been "damaging the industry for a decade"

Arkane's founder reckons the service will "either kill everyone else, or give up"

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Turkey Opens Spotify Probe After 'Provocative Playlist' Complaint

Turkey's competition authority has launched an investigation into Spotify for anti-competitive practices as a deputy minister demanded legal action over "provocative" playlists allegedly offensive to the president's wife and disrespectful of Islam.

International Business Times

ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech stories from Spotify's suspected AI band to Nothing's first over-ear headphones

Here's the biggest tech news stories from Dyson, Xbox, Dyson, Nothing and more for July 5, 2025.

TechRadar

The Velvet Sundown: Everything we know about the band accused of being AI

The band have denied claims that their identity and music are fake

The Independent UK

Fictional K-pop group Saja Boys dethrones BTS on Spotify charts

Villainous group climb to highest US Spotify chart position ever by a K-pop boy band

The Independent UK

Is Denmark killing the tradition of EU playlists?

As Denmark takes over the rotating EU Council presidency from Poland, it’s hitting pause on one beloved tradition: the national Spotify playlist.

Euronews

We're not getting a Guardians of the Galaxy-style soundtrack in Superman, but James Gunn has made the next best thing: a Spotify playlist for Clark Kent: "I haven't had more fun this year"

James Gunn has made Spotify playlists for the Superman characters

Total Film

"This is exactly what artists have been worried about – it's theft dressed up as competition": Who is behind The Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated band that blew up the internet?

A 'spokesperson' for The Velvet Sundown that gave a statement to Rolling Stone earlier this week has now revealed that he's not affiliated with group

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Apple and Spotify are sleepwalking into an AI music crisis – and The Velvet Sundown mess shows they need to act fast

Spotify and Apple’s AI blind spot: The Velvet Sundown is a warning on the dangers of AI music.

MusicRadar

“It’s marketing. It’s trolling”: AI band The Velvet Sundown are an ‘art hoax’, confirms 'spokesman'

But does it matter?

Android Central

Spotify's Discover Weekly turns 10, but gifts you two big updates instead

Spotify celebrated 10 years of Discover Weekly by dropping two updates for users.

Metal Hammer

4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

BMTH and Architects approved alt metal, Nordic folk meets extreme metal, kink-inspired industrial metal and the brothers who gave up prog for nu metal: these are the metal bands you need to hear in July 2025

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Louder

"It's marketing. It's trolling. Is that wrong?" Spokesman for that fake band you've been reading about admits they're fake

The Velvet Sundown have come clean

MusicRadar

“We don’t want our music killing people”: Deerhoof just quit Spotify in protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s multi-million dollar investment in AI weapons tech

“Spotify is flushing itself down the toilet. Eventually artists will want to leave this already widely hated data-mining scam masquerading as a ‘music company”

Tom’s Guide

Spotify just gave Discovery a big upgrade — here's what's new for you

Spotify Discover turns 10 years old and the music streamer has some updates for Discover that could change how you listen.

Evening Standard

Apple Music celebrates 10 years with 'all-time' playlist – here's how Spotify users can get involved

Apple Music celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, and is passing that onto users in a special playlist

Metal Hammer

A seemingly non-existent band have more than half a million Spotify ‘listeners’, but the numbers they’re piling up are just as shallow and meaningless as the computer-generated music they spit out

The Independent UK

Music critics say Oasis only made two good albums. Gen Z strongly disagree

IN FOCUS: New, younger fans of the Britpop legends are discovering their much-maligned latter-day catalogue without the context of the times. It’s time the band’s older, more cynical observers follow their lead, says Hamish MacBain

Pedestrian.tv

Is The Legacy Playlist Gen Z’s Most Honest Digital Scrapbook, Or Just More Branding?

Curating my digital legacy, one banger at a time.

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