Earlier this year, a new band called the Velvet Sundown released a song that sounded like it was made by a Benadryl-drowsed peer of the Eagles and Led Zeppelin. It earned more than 3 million streams, a rare feat for an unknown band. Except it wasn’t actually a band—it was (according to an official statement) a “synthetic music project” that had been composed and voiced using AI.
This development raised a sad question: Is rock and roll so stagnant that a bland computer imitation could do a better job than real groups?
The answer is no—young artists are still moving the genre forward in electrifying ways. Take Geese, a quartet of Brooklynites who were signed by a record label just after they graduated high school.
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