Guardian Music — From Rihanna upsetting farmers to Tyler, the Creator eating a cockroach, we round up the pop promos that were worth watching this yearAzealia Banks feat Lazy Jay – 212Sometimes simplicity works better than a CGI-created box of tricks. Filmed in bla... more info

Bridging The Atlantic — It's time to break the radio silence on BTA, and bring you my best albums and tracks of the year 2011. A year that belonged to Ms. Harvey. Since Let England Shake was released early in the year no-one else had a chance.Top 10 Albums:10. Big Deal ... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Swedish singer-songwriter Lykke Li has put together a free EP. The Lost Sessions Vol. I has an intriguing demo of this year's single I Follow Rivers and an alternate version that outshines the original: Jerome from her second album Wounded Rhymes. ... more info

Stereogum — Lykke Li had a pretty good year, releasing the critically successful Wounded Rhymes, got her fair share of TV looks and put out some solid videos. So, now Lykke gives back in the form of a free download for the “Lost Sessions,” which features som... more info

Discobelle.net — A christmas gift from Lykke Li, stick this on your music devices for your holiday playlists. Lykke Li – The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 (zip file, direct link) more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — From Lykke Li: What is lost can be found and what is found can be lost... Read more » more info

Guardian Music — The top 40 tracks of the year, as voted for by Guardian writers1 Lana Del Rey – Video Games2 Azealia Banks – 2123 Tyler, the Creator – Yonkers4 Joe Goddard – Gabriel ft Valentina5 Frank Ocean – Swim Good6 Nicki Minaj – Super Bass7 Beyonc�... more info

Spinner.com — 60. My Morning Jacket, 'Holdin on to Black Metal' 59. Naked and Famous, 'Punching in a Dream' 58. Sleeper Agent, 'That's My Baby' 57. The Civil Wars, 'Barton Hollow' 56. Iceage, 'New Brigade' 55. Lights, 'Everybody Breaks a Glass' 54. Diarrhe... more info

DrownedInSound — A week of DiS, as a playlist...you should probably have the gist of what this weekly digest is by now. Won't bore you, click here to open the playlist in Spotify and amongst the blathering below you'll find links to the best bits of this week... ... more info

Guardian Music — Next week we'll be counting down our top 10 albums of the year … but here's how the rest of our critics' top 50 looksStarting on Monday we'll be counting down Guardian critics' top 10 albums of 2011. To get you in the mood, here's how our writers v... more info