Today, Mary J. Blige released a video for The London Sessions single “Whole Damn Year” directed by Mike Ho and Alex Moors. Blige is well-known for confronting issues of social injustice and violence in her work, and this video is no exception. Although they’re beautifully shot and edited, the story lines found in th...

The biggest draw to Mary J. Blige’s new album is probably all of the collaborations with people like Disclosure, Sam Smith, and Emile Sandé — most of which we’ve heard already — but The London Sessions is a whole album, and there are some more low-key songs on there as well. “When You’...

R&B queen Mary J. Blige recruited the fast-rising dance duo Disclosure to producer “Right Now,” the first single from her new album The London Sessions, and it was always fun to imagine MJB in the studio with these pasty British kids. At this point, though, we don’t have to imagine it; we see exactly that [...

The alliance between Disclosure and Mary J. Blige isn’t anything anyone could’ve predicted, but it’s been yielding awesome things for the better part of a year now. Blige showed up on a new version of “F For You,” a highlight from Disclosure’s Settle album, at the beginning of the year....

Mary J. Blige will release her London Sessions album at the end of the November. One of her collaborators on the record was Sam Smith, who co-wrote at least two songs. The first was lead single “Therapy,” which we heard last week. Now here’s another, “Nobody But You,” which sounds a lot like what...