What's coming up on Plattenspieler

So this year we're gonna be writing a lot more for all you guys to take in.

We're gonna be packing in far more reviews for you, of music, film, DVD, TV, books and comics. So as a little preview, here are the reviews coming up in the next few weeks.

Music: Nu-Indie pretenders The View, Super Furries' Gruff Rhys, the genuis that is The Shins, the sophomore from Bloc Party, another new one from Of Montreal and Australians Youth Group's follow up to their debut sleeper.

Films: Mel's troubled new one Apocalypto, critic's darling Babel, De Niro lensed The Good Shepherd, the absolutely ace Rocky Balboa, Will Smith uplift Pursuit of Happyness and Ryan Gosling acting show Half Nelson.

Books: A new feature taking in classics will be launched along with the 104 BOOK CHALLENGE which involves me reading 52 books and 52 'graphic novels' in the course of the next year. Number one will be posted in a couple of days and two is going well.

We'll be including in this a whole host (obviously) of books but for now, here are January's entries. (comics aren't quite off the ground yet but I'll double up a few to make it work)

Books:
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Shame The Devil by George Pelecanos
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Wanderers by Richard Price

Comics:
Top Ten: V1 by Alan Moore
Rising Stars: V1 by J. Michael Straczynski
Desolation Jones: V1 by Warren Ellis

And thats about it for now, so enjoy January and enjoy us.

Love you... not you though.