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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"

GamesRadar

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.

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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

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"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

MusicRadar

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.

TechRadar

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

But does it matter?

MusicRadar

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.

Android Central

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

Metal Hammer

"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

Louder

“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”

MusicRadar

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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

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

Curating my digital legacy, one banger at a time.

Louder

There's a band with more than half a million monthly listeners on Spotify and they probably don't exist

Meet The Velvet Sundown, the world's new favourite AI-generated rock stars

TechRadar

Apple Music is celebrating 10 years with a personalized ‘All Time’ Playlist, and there’s a way for Spotify listeners to get in on the action

Apple is giving you a way to look back on all your Apple Music streams.

PC Gamer

Accused of being AI after racking up well over 400,000 monthly Spotify listens, The Velvet Sundown claims they are 'a real band' and 'never use AI'

Never give the robot the Aux cord.

TechRadar

Spotify’s latest breakout band The Velvet Sundown appears to be AI-generated – and fans aren’t happy

New Spotify sensation The Velvet Sundown appears to be an entirely AI-generated band, even down to their album covers and music

The Guardian - US

How gen Z is rewriting money rules: ‘I thrift, I splurge, I save 25%’

From vintage finds to Spotify and savings goals, four gen Zers share what budgeting looks like in their real lives

We Got This Covered

‘This should lowkey be illegal’: Music lovers in shock as seemingly AI generated band ‘The Velvet Sundown’ takes off on Spotify

The Velvet Sundown might not be who (or what) they say they are.

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