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 [...

If you thought 2013 was a huge year for Disclosure — they released the acclaimed Settle and became a crossover critical sensation — just think about how big 2014′s been for the duo. They had a platinum top-10 hit in the US with the long-simmering “Latch,” dominated at festivals all summer, appear...

Full disclosure: I am not exactly well-versed in the deep, labyrinthine history of jazz music. Sure, I know my Mingus from my Monk, my Coltrane from my Coleman, but I can’t speak on the lineage of Blue Note Records or tell you which tiny, smoke-filled New York clubs were “the place to be” for jazz [...]

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....