The Australian radio station Triple J is about to launch its year-end Hottest 100 countdown. And to build up anticipation (or whatever), it put together a comedy sketch that stars as many musicians as possible. It’s pretty obvious that none of these people in were in the same room at the same time, but it’s [...]

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’...

Veteran Bay Area spaz-poppers Deerhoof recorded their new album La Isla Bonita live in a garage over one week. God Mode label head Nick Sylvester (who is, full disclosure, my friend) recorded it, and it has a bit more melody and a bit less berserk skronk pyrotechnics than a lot of other Deerhoof records. But [...]

It’s pretty crazy how big Sam Smith has gotten in the past year. He made his late-night TV debut back in January when Jimmy Fallon was still behind the Late Night desk. Smith wasn’t even performing solo then — he was just there to support Disclosure on “Latch,” which was over a year old then [...]

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 [...