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In Our Headphones

KEXP DJ Jewel on Velvet Meadow’s AI Diss Track

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Host Evie Stokes talks to KEXP DJ Jewel about Florida-based psych rock band Velvet Meadow and their song “The Velvet Showdown.” Jewel speculates that this might be one of the first diss tracks aimed at A.I. – setting their sights on the A.I. band The Velvet Sundown. The song comes from their 2025 self-released album, Saturday Morning Meadowlies.

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0:00.0

You're listening to In Our Headphones, and I'm Evie Stokes here today with my friend DJ Jewel, who hosts Astroplane on K-EXP.

0:09.3

It's a show on Wednesday evenings from 7 to 10 p.m. And we're going to talk about all things psych today.

0:16.6

So, Julie, you've been hosting Astroplane for the last couple of years. And every week you dig into psychedelic sounds from different countries, different genres,

0:25.4

different eras in your show is amazing.

0:28.0

How do you come up with the music that you play and the song that you chose today?

0:33.9

You know, having those different places, different times is really important to me. I try to mix across all of those things. I kind of, I kind of obsessively keep track of like, how many songs from the 90s have I played versus the 80s versus the 60s and try to keep like a balance going? I like to think about like starting from a place of like what's new,

0:56.4

who do I want to support right now, and then what references can I give back to like, okay,

1:02.6

here's a new track by, you know, King is or someone like that. Here's references they might be

1:08.4

pulling from some 60s stuff or some like Turkish stuff or

1:12.1

things that you can hear in their sound. So that's a lot of the way I program is kind of like,

1:18.0

here's a new thing and like here's some stuff that if you liked that, like across space and time,

1:24.1

these things might also interest you. So today, we're going to listen to a song that

1:28.7

you chose from an artist named Velvet Meadow. Tell me about it. Tell me about Edna's branding the name's pretty sweet. A lot more than that making shit trap beats.

1:47.8

Tell me about Velvet Meadow.

1:49.0

So Velvet Meadow, mostly one guy, his name is Chris Hieronymous, and he's from St. Augustine, Florida.

1:56.2

But he fills it out with a whole band.

1:58.4

I've seen a lot of live videos of them.

2:00.7

They are really cool.

2:03.2

The funny thing about Velvet Meadow is I only discovered them fairly recently.

2:09.0

And this was pretty soon after the Velvet Sundown controversy.

2:14.0

Do you know who the Velvet Sundown is?

2:16.2

So Velvet Sundown is an AI band. And people,

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