USA Today Music — Ice-T, Paul Simon, Neil Young -- both the Sundance and Slamdance film festivals had plenty of musical highlights in 2012. more info

411 Mania — A documentary about the making of his album Graceland... more info

USA Today Music — There's always been a spiritual dimension to Paul Simon's music. But the overt religious references in his recent album surprised even him. more info

Guardian Music — Touching or toe-curling? As Jay-Z releases an emotional rap about his newborn daughter, Laura Barton takes a look at the songwriters who have been overcome by parenthoodThe birth of Blue Ivy Carter to Beyoncé and Jay-Z last week has prompted her fat... more info

Guardian Music — Art Garfunkel on turning 70, backing the Occupy protest, his relationship with Paul Simon – and how, more than 40 years ago, they recorded a classicBridge Over Troubled Water, the last Simon and Garfunkel studio album, was released in 1970. Looking... more info

Said the Gramophone — Paul Simon - "The Boy in the Bubble" Edmund is clean shaven, left-handed and still recovering from a childhood of ADHD and narcotics. Umbrage taken, mixed signals given, Edmund wanders from the wreckage of one life-size crater only to... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — We already posted Pitchfork's and SPIN's, so... here's Rolling Stone's top 50 albums of 2011. It's got tons of big sellers and major label players taking high spots like Adele, Jay-Z and Kanye West, Paul Simon, and Lady Gaga,... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — To paraphrase Paul Simon: There must be 50 ways to lose your lover. And even more ways to make an album about it. more info

Chicago Tribune — Here are my favorite concerts from 2011: more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offThe Rumour Said Fire By the Shore Jasper Lidang grew up in remote northern Denmark filling long childhood hours by intercutting his dad's Paul Simon records with Nirvana a... more info