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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 [...]