Eprock at the first AI Music Awards

Oct 27, 2026 · Announcement

Eprock Is Going to the First AI Music Awards

AI music is getting its first awards show, and this house will be in the room.

On November 12 and 13, 2026, SIQA — the Sonic Intelligence Academy — takes over downtown Los Angeles for the SIQA Summit and the inaugural AI Music Awards at The Mayan. I’m going as press: camera in hand, red carpet to closing ceremony, both days.

I’m not going as a spectator, either. Eprock is a verified SIQA registry family — eight artist profiles registered under one human creator. I know this community from the inside: the charts, the registry, the arguments about what counts as AI music and who gets credit. Now I get to document the night the genre steps onto a historic stage.

Here’s the plan. Thursday is the Summit — a full day of sessions, the premiere ceremony, the demo lounge, the welcome mixer. Friday night is the AIMAs: red carpet at The Mayan, live performances, 25 categories, winners decided by verified artists themselves.

Everything I capture — photos, interviews, the moments between the moments — publishes right here on this page. If you make AI music, this is your night too. I’m going to bring it home.

— Roy G

Oct 27, 2026 · Explainer

Verified, Not Flagged: Inside SIQA’s Registry

Every other platform treats AI music like a problem to be labeled. SIQA built something different: a registry that verifies it.

The Sonic Intelligence Academy runs the weekly AI-music charts and the Verified Registry, where AI artists claim their profiles, register their songs, and carry a classification that tells the truth about how the music was made: Fully AI-Generated, AI-Assisted, or Human + AI Hybrid. Their principle is printed right on the door: Verified, Not Flagged.

Eprock’s road onto the registry started in September. Cup of Tea was approved on September 16, 2026. On September 27, the Eprock group profile and Be_Bae Eprock’s solo profile were approved. Six more profiles followed on September 30 — ILLANI, Ro, Neti, Bria Eprock, Rod AI and Hem AI — eight profiles in all, every one of them registered under one name: mine.

That’s the part people get wrong about this house, so let me say it the way I say it: I am the human, they are the synthetic. The artists are synthetic; the creator, the rights holder, the man answering for the work — that’s me. And when you hear my own human voice on a record, the classification says so: Human + AI Hybrid. It’s all me, and the registry shows its work.

Why does verification matter? Because this genre is going mainstream whether the industry is ready or not, and when the money and the credit get sorted out, the artists who can prove what they made — and how — will be the ones standing. A registry entry is a paper trail: the song, the ISRC, the classification, the date. That’s not a warning label. That’s a credential.

In November, the registry throws its first awards show. This house will be there — verified, and covering it.

— Roy G

Oct 27, 2026 · The road

The Road to The Mayan

Let me tell you the truth about this trip, because the truth is the whole point of this page.

Eprock is not nominated at the first AI Music Awards. Nominations closed on September 25, 2026 — before our entries were in — and SIQA held the line: no late submissions, no exceptions. I respect it. A registry that bends its own deadlines wouldn’t be worth much.

So we’re going the other way in: as press, and as registry family. The winners at The Mayan were decided by verified AI artists — voting ran September 28 to October 3, across all 25 categories — and the room will be full of the people who actually make this music. Xania Monet, Chaisen Hale, Aries Ivory, Olivia B Moore and EJ Rogers are among the announced performers. Under a hundred awards seats were released to the public; the rest of the house is nominees and invited guests.

Here’s what I’m watching for. Thursday’s Summit is where the business gets built — the tools, the standards, the people turning a scene into an industry. Friday night is the proof of concept: a 1927 landmark theater, a red carpet, and a genre standing on a real stage for the first time.

And when it’s over? The road starts again. More of this catalog gets registered, charted and classified — the released records, with their ISRCs, one by one. Next year’s ballot is built in the twelve months before it, not the week of. We missed the first deadline. We don’t plan to miss the second.

See you at The Mayan.

— Roy G