I Love Rock N Roll - Radio Show

08/07/2025

Und darf vor, nach und während Wahlen gespielt werden!

The Who’s iconic anthem from 1971’s Who’s Next album performed here on B-Stage at Shepperton Studios on 25 May 1978 Filmed by Jeff Stein for the closing seq...

01/07/2025

Schlimm genug, dass man nicht vom Plattenverkauf leben kann, jetzt fragen wir uns wie die GEMA das bewerten soll?

Though they're not yet dominating the charts, disturbingly realistic AI-generated songs are slowly but surely creeping into our headphones - and you may even be listening to them without realizing what you're hearing. Smuggled into popular playlists and hidden in plain sight among authentic, well-known tracks, AI-generated artists with fake photos, ChatGPT-generated biographies and no genuine fans to speak of are picking up hundreds of thousands of streams.

One such artist is The Velvet Sundown, a band with almost 500,000 monthly Spotify listeners but no discernible online presence or social media accounts. While we can't confirm that the band's music is AI-generated, a glance at their artist image and bio should be enough to persuade even the least skeptical observer.

"The Velvet Sundown don’t just play music — they conjure worlds," reads the group's Spotify profile, which we're about 99% certain has been authored by ChatGPT. "Somewhere between the ghost of Laurel Canyon and the echo of a Berlin warehouse, this four-piece band bends time, fusing 1970s psychedelic textures with cinematic alt-pop and dreamy analog soul."

The band's line-up ostensibly features "mellotron sorcerer" Gabe Farrow, "free-spirited percussionist" Orion “Rio” Del Mar, "synth alchemist" Milo Rains and guitarist Lennie West, four musicians that turn up a grand total of zero appearances in Google search results between them.

As for the music itself, the band's country-tinged roots-rock bears the unmistakably lo-fi veneer of a Suno creation, but is convincing enough to pass by undetected if sandwiched in a playlist between two authentic songs. In fact, that's exactly where it's been found.

Who is behind The Velvet Sundown, and how has the music made its way into playlists themed around TV soundtracks and Vietnam War-era artists, saved by more than half a million listeners?

The answer to both of these questions remains a mystery, but the band's growing popularity confirms that of the thousands of AI-generated tracks uploaded to streaming services each day, many are gaining a foothold - and with it, taking money out of the pockets of real artists making real music.

16/06/2025

Brianpower

12/06/2025

The day the music died.

Uncharted flip side of their hit “Dance, Dance, Dance” ( https://youtu.be/5c1L7OdRvlE ).Transferred from mono 45 single Capitol 5306 - The Warmth Of The Sun ...

05/06/2025

Just in case you wanted to know...

Find out the 500 songs that have been the most influential in shaping rock and roll.

04/06/2025

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The Purple Rain continues to fall.

28/05/2025

We agree Al. Very sad.
https://youtu.be/_YdBsF8sagQ

I’m very sad to say that my friend, rock guitar legend Rick Derringer, has passed. Rick produced my first 6 albums and played guitar on my earliest recordings, including the solo on “Eat It.” He had an enormous impact on my life, and will be missed greatly. RIP

21/05/2025

Integrität. Goldwert heute und in allen Tagen.

In 1985, Bruce Springsteen was offered $12 million by Chrysler to license his anthem "Born in the U.S.A." for a commercial promoting their cars. His manager Jon Landau immediately informed the automaker that Bruce wasn’t even remotely interested. As Landau recounted later, “Bruce didn’t even think twice. He said, ‘It’s not for sale.’” That single sentence reflected more than a business decision. It underscored Springsteen’s unwavering sense of integrity and loyalty to the deeper meaning of his music. At a time when artists were beginning to license their songs for massive ad campaigns and earn fortunes in the process, Bruce saw something else: the danger of erasing the very soul of a song written for people who had suffered and struggled.
"Born in the U.S.A." had already been misunderstood by much of the public. With its booming, stadium-shaking chorus, the song was often mistaken for a patriotic anthem. But Bruce had built it around the story of a Vietnam veteran coming home to an America that felt distant, ungrateful, and indifferent. The lyrics told of hardship, systemic neglect, and bitter disillusionment. “Sent me off to a foreign land / To go and kill the yellow man” wasn’t a celebration of American triumph. It was an anguished cry from someone who had served his country and returned to find his life hollowed out.
Had Chrysler gotten its way, those lyrics would have been completely ignored, replaced by glossy images of chrome and horsepower. For Springsteen, that kind of distortion wasn't acceptable. The idea of pairing a song about broken promises and working-class pain with a shiny pitch for a luxury product would’ve betrayed everything the track stood for.
Springsteen had always drawn his power from the truth, working men and women, the underdogs, the tired and torn. His art was built on stories that cut through superficiality. To him, "Born in the U.S.A." wasn’t a product to be repackaged. It was a statement. Allowing a car company to dilute that into an advertising jingle would have undermined the message and compromised his identity as a voice for those left behind.

20/05/2025