Viv Albertine also pays tribute to Up for 'celebrating womanliness'

Dave Grohl enlists Krist Novoselic for 'heaviest' Foo Fighters album yet

The Rolling Stones on our minds a lot this week, with the Keith Richards book finally out (please have a look at Allan’s immense review in the new Uncut), and a pile of page proofs from our forthcoming Rolling Stones Ultimate Music Guide for me to read.

3D explains the bands plans for the forthcoming 12 months

But the granite headstone doesn't get an FAC number

Paramore, Steve Earle and Sheryl Crowe also feature

Spent a sizeable part of yesterday afternoon grappling again with “The Age Of Adz”, with little progress. It made me think, beyond the Sufjan Stevens album, there have been a good few albums this year, eagerly anticipated by me, that I’ve ended up delicately avoiding talking about here. Big personal disappointments, in other words: The Hold Steady’s “Heaven Is Whenever” and the Black Mountain album, whose title I’ve momentarily forgotten, spring to mind.

The notorious cover for 'Two Virgins' was shot at the London flat

Brookes plays with the band in Birmingham

The photographic book sells out on pre-orders