Archives for August 2011

Wednesdays MPFree comes from Paper Aeroplanes and their new single Flee.

The track is from their new EP A Comfortable Sleep, which is out on September 15th.

Amazing Radio described this track as a cross between Ellie Goulding and Jose Gonzalez, see what you think by following the link below.

Also if you would like to see them live they have a UK tour starting on September 16th!

Flee - Paper Aeroplanes

It's the first day of the working which means it's MPFree time. Today we have the new single from The Wavves upcoming Life Sux EP, due out on the 20th September.

Released via their own Ghost Ramp label the EP follows King Of The Beach, their third album released last year.

See how it compares by listening below!

I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl - The Wavves

It's Tuesday, which means our very own app expert Stuart Dredge was in the studio talking about, yes, apps. Here is what he said, but written down.. 

NEWS



BBM Music

BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) was recently in the news when it was accused of being used to start the UK riots. Now BlackBerry's messaging app is being used for something more legal: music. A new service called BBM Music is coming, which will cost $4.99 a month (UK pricing tba) and lets you stream 50 songs. Which sounds rubbish, but whenever a friend signs up, you get to listen to *their* 50 songs too - your available collection expands by 50 songs whenever someone else you know joins. So it's music sharing but entirely legit.



Booktrack - soundtracks for book-apps

A new startup called Booktrack is touting a new form of e-book: app versions with soundtracks. So it has a Sherlock Holmes story with 'authentic' London noises (hooves, crackling fires etc), and it has versions on the way for The Three Musketeers, Jane Eyre and Romeo and Juliet).

Boyz II Men say it's an 'app-driven world'

Boyz II Men haven't come to the end of the road after all! They're back, and they're very keen on apps. Band member Nathan Morris has given an interview saying he thinks all music will be free in a couple of years, as pure promotion for stuff that people will pay for: live gigs and sponsorship deals. But he also thinks apps are important, to the point of actually designing the band's new app himself. "I think we’re moving into an app-driven world. Five days a week most people aren’t able to get on their computer…"

REVIEWS



Bestival 2011

The app for the Bestival festival is out on iPhone and Android, and it does a lot of what other festival apps have done this summer - lineups, maps, info etc. However, the unique feature here is vouchers to get you cheap stuff at stalls and outlets around the festival site. So they're charging you for the app, but (I hope) you get cheap festival noodles…

Here is the link to the Android version of the app.

Forkly

This is an iPhone app which gets people to take photos of their food with their cameraphone when eating out, and upload their rating of the restaurant for other people to see. And it's actually part of a trend - an app called Foodspotting has been downloaded one million times, while another one called Nosh recently came out to approving headlines. The trend: everyone's a reviewer now: you can't enjoy your grub until you've marked it out of 10 for the wider world…

REM

Taking note of Boyz II Men's advice, REM have launched an official app this weekend. It lets fans stream samples from their back catalogue, watch music videos, upload photos taken at gigs, and choose any gig from their 2008 tour and watch fan YouTube videos - an interesting feature, since they're embracing the idea of fans shooting videos, versus, say, Prince who hates it. And there are other photo features designed to help you share moments when you're listening to a specific song.

It's a Friday, so once again let's celebrate with five of the week's best free downloads, lovingly plonked together on a page with some artwork slapped on it. Massive.

Your final MPFree comes from Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox. His side/solo project is Atlas Sound and this track Terra Incognita will feature on the album Parallax which is out in November on 4AD.

The artwork this week was on the theme of summer, or rather a pic that summed up your summer. We opted for this beauty from Caroline Hancox which is, as you can tell from the mud, a shot from Glastonbury.

Your tracks this week are:

Trwbador - The Sun In Winter

Mariachi El Bronx - 48 Roses

Toro Y Moi - New Beat (Star Slinger Dancehall Mix)

Georgia Ruth Williams - Old Blue

Atlas Sound - Terra Incognita

Some tracks may no longer be available for download.

We're back to tales of love with Memory Tapes this week. Katie Herring send us a mix this week, and she writes...

"I had a couple reason for making the tape. I needed an Easter present for my boyfriend and also he'd just got his first car which only had a tape player so thought it was my chance to kill two birds with one stone. I rummaged around in our loft and found an old tape recorder which looked like it still worked and plugged it into my laptop to record the tracks from Spotify. The end sound quality is questionable but I like to think of it as having an authentic vintage feel!

"Mostly these are bands that have kind of been the soundtrack to our relationship so far with a few others thrown in so I don't look like too much of a girl. Pete and I have known each other for ten years and used to have the same music class together, but have only just recently got together as an 'official' couple. Pete is a bit more hot on the music scene than I am and he introduced me to lots of the bands on the tape.

"I guess you could Say the Feeling is our guilty pleasure and I think I actually played them to him first while we still in the Unofficial stage. He'd come from Exeter to see me at uni on Valentines Day and I think I played the tracks in the car to pick him up from the station. He'll probably say otherwise but that's my memory of it anyway.

"Basically the whole tape was an excuse for me to channel my inner teenage girl! I even made a cover for it!" She did, look, here it is:

And the tracklisting is:

Ben Folds - You Don't Know Me (featuring Regina Spektor)

Bombay Bicycle Club - The Giantess

Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar

KTB - I Like You Like Me

Maps & Atlases - Pigeon

Plastiscines - Zazie Fait De La Bicyclette

Dog Is Dead - Young

Mumford & Sons - Hold On To What You Believe

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

Beirut - Nantes

OK Go - Here It Goes Again

Hot Club De Paris - The Dice Wasn't Loaded From The Start

Katzenjammer - Wading In Deeper

Iron And Wine - Naked As We Came

The Feeling - We Can Dance

The Whitest Boy Alive - Burning

Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This

Hot Club De Paris - Clockwork

65daysofstatic - Radio Protector

Chairlift - Bruises

The Besties - Pirate Song

The Middle East - Blood

Marina And The Diamonds - Obsessions

Regina Spektor - Us

The Feeling - We Can Dance

Your MPFree today comes from Georgia Ruth Williams. Georgia comes from Cardiff and is a harpist who's just realeased her debut EP.

This track doesn't feature on it, but will give you a flavour of what she's about.

Georgia Ruth Williams - Old Blue

Wednesday's MPFree is a remix of a show favourite. We loved Toro Y Moi's New Beat when it was an MPFree many moons ago, and now Star Slinger has got his hands on it and given it a remix.

You'll find the original version on the album Underneath The Pine, but here it is with a dancehall make over.

Toro Y Moi - New Beat (Star Slinger Dancehall Mix)

Tuesday's MPFree comes from the Mariachi El Bronx which is out in September. In case you don't know, Mariachi El Bronx is the alter ego of The Bronx who've, in recent years, swapped their punk sound for mariachi music.

This is the album opener, and picks up where the previous album left off.

Mariachi El Bronx - 48 Roses

It's a Tuesday, so if you couldn't quite catch all of techie Guru Stuart Dredge's app news and reviews, here they all are again but written down...

NEWS

Reading and Leeds festival apps (iPhone / Android)

As you'd expect, these app come with all the lineups and location info you'd expect from a festival app.

A Genuine Freakshow

This is a mobile web app from a British band who are playing Reading/Leeds this weekend - basically they'll chuck flyers into the audience with a QR code for their new app, which people can scan there and then to listen to songs etc.

David Baldacci (iPhone)

Author David Baldacci has sold 110 million books, and now he's got an app. It has previews from every novel, but more interestingly, it gives more information on the locations in the book, and has photos and videos from David to keep fans in touch with what he's up to.

REVIEWS

RecyclePix (iPhone / Android / iPad)

This follows on from an app we talked about a few weeks ago where you can photograph graffiti and mess so it can be cleared up. RecyclePix goes a bit further; you can take photos of yourself recycling to earn discounts and coupons on buying stuff. So co-opting this 'share my photos' thing for eco good.

DK The Human Body and DK Quick Cook (both iPad)

Book publisher Dorling Kindersley is getting big into the iPad with two new apps. The Human Body is a full guide to everything skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, skin, hair & nails, lymphatic & immune, digestive, urinary and reproductive. Lots of whizzy hi-res images, zoomable photos and medical details. Meanwhile, DK Quick Cook won't put you off your dinner: it'll tell you how to cook it in 45 minutes.

Peter Dickson's Pocket Announcer (iPhone / Android)

Who? Him who does the voiceover for the X Factor, that's who. He has an app that lets you make him shout whatever sentence you want (albeit choosing from specific words so you can't be rude).

Your first MPFree ofthe week comes from an Avant Pop duo from Wales who are Angharad Van Rijswijk and Owain Gwilym. One's a producer; one's a writer and together it seems to work.

Trwbador - The Sun In Winter

This week of MPFrees started with a bang! Boom! Holy Ghost! feat. Michael MacDonald; you loved did, as did we.

The rest of the tracks across the week held their own too though, and today's is Mayer Hawthorne's A Long Time remixed by Chromeo. This track features on the fourthcoming album How Do You Do which is expected in October.

As for the art work this week, we asked for your photos the awesome old people you have in your life which follows on from yesterday's O.A.People's Playlist. We went with this photo from Yana with her Rock Baba (which translates as Rock Grandma).

This week's tracks are:

Holy Ghost! feat. Michael McDonald - Some Children

Race Horses - Benidorm

The War On Drugs - Come To The City

Ages & Ages - Navy Parade

Mayer Hawthorne - A Long Time (Chromeo remix)

Some tracks may no longer be available for download.

Ah man, the story behind this week's Memory Tapes is an emotional one. Prepare yourself, and read on through this email from Nikki Crichton...

"The attached CDs were created by a dear friend of mine Will, in 2004. I'd recently finished with Will who, needed to tell me how he felt about me, by way of music. So, he brought a new CD to the bar where I was working, over three days. He didn't include a tracklist as he wanted me to find out what was what myself. These are a mix of tracks we had enjoyed together, tracks that he thought I'd like, or tracks with titles that would give me clues. It didnt win me over but I was mightily moved. We remained good buddies and to this day, many of the songs are favourites and make me think of Will.

"Unfortunately, three months after recieving them, he tragically died.

"An amazing friend Simon, who had never met Will but knew how much the CDs meant to me managed sneak away the original unlabelled discs. Simon has and still does, spend time compilating my taste. He secretly, digitalized them, named the tracks, designed the covers and made my birthday that year a particularly teary one."

Pretty amazing, right? Right. Here's the tracks, and look, one of them still remains unidentified! Anyone else busting to hear that track?

So that's the tracks, and here's the artwork created by Simon:

Come on, you know you wanna, email Lauren your Memory Tape.

Today's MPFree comes from Portland septet Ages & Ages.

It comes from the band's debut album 'Alright You Restless', which came out in February through Knitting Factory Records.

Ages & Ages - Navy Parade

It's another one of our current favourite bands for the MPFree today. The War On Drugs release the album Slave Ambient in the UK next week, and this track is taken from it.

The band are heading to the UK in September for some live dates which, fingers crossed, will include a session for Lauren.

The War On Drugs - Come To The City

Tuesday's MPFree comes from a set of indie boys who are sounding very un-indie. Race Horses (formerly Radio Luxembourg) released their debut album Goodbye Falkenburg last year.

This track is the first of a new batch of tracks which will build toward their second album.

Race Horses - Benidorm

It's a Tuesday, which means tech guide Stuart Dredge esq is back on the show for a rummage around in the apps world.

NEWS:

Angry Birds goes merchandise mad

There's now an Angry Birds cookbook available to pre-order called Bad Piggies' Egg Recipes. It went on sale last week, alongside a new range of Angry Birds baby items - swaddling blankets, baby burpies and sleeping sacks. The official site also has flip-flops, school satchels, with ties and socks to come.

Facebook is doing a messaging app

It's not in the UK yet, but last week Facebook launched its new big thing on mobile: Facebook Messaging. Using the App, you can 'ping' friends directly and see their reply on-screen - with group messaging too. It's competing against BBM on BlackBerry and Apple's soon-to-launch iMessage.

The X Factor app aims to get people virtually clapping

This year's X Factor is going to have its own iPhone app with a 'Tap to Clap' feature - you tap the screen to signify your appreciation of a performance, a judge's comment or a result, and then that gets put on Twitter and Facebook.

REVIEWS:

V Festival 2011

It's coming up this weekend, and the V Festival has its own app for iPhone, Android, Nokia and BlackBerry. It's standard stuff - news, stage times, site map. But there's also a feature to find your Facebook friends on-site - sign in to Facebook and it lets you know where they are.

Chill

This is a Facebook app rather than a mobile app, but it's very cool indeed. It's all about social VJing - you have your own virtual room that you invite friends to, and then you basically play YouTube videos to one another. It follows on from the success of Turntable.fm, which did the same thing just for music.

Say What?!

This iPhone music game focuses as much on the lyrics as the music. It's a Generation Game-style scrolling treadmill with little pictures that correspond to words in the song - you tap them in time. Kasabian, Calvin Harris are all in it.

Following a nostalgic weekend, Lauren asked if you have any of your old toys that you simply can't part with.

As it turns out, you have! A lot of you also had photos of them, which you sent to us and are now viewable in this gallery. Enjoy.

Today's MPFree would be great if it was just by Holy Ghost! But it isn't just Holy Ghost!; it's got Michael McDonald on it too!

Fans of Holy Ghost! will already be aware of this track as it's the last track on the band's eponymous debut LP released through DFA. For those who aren't aware of this track, enjoy:

Holy Ghost! feat. Michael McDonald - Some Children

Friday Film Club was postponed on today's show as all of Empire Magazine's staff were in attendance at Big Screen at the O2. So, Lauren asked you to tell the others listeners about your Hidden Gem. What's a Hidden Gem? It's a film you love that hasn't been seen by enough people; they can be lost classics, underground cult classics or great B-Movies.

We had an overwhelming response, literally hundreds; far too many for this blog. So, here's a few we'll definitely be digging out, and some films which were suggested by more than one of you. Thank you for all of your excellent suggestions, and happy watching! Don't forget, you can listen back to Friday's show to hear Lauren talk about even more of your Hidden Gems.

Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

Directed by Sidney Lumet.

Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney and Marisa Tomei.

Synopsis: Two brothers organise the robbery of their parent's jewellery shop, and it all goes horribly wrong.

Brick (2005)

Directed by Rian Johnson

Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas and Emilie de Ravin

Synopsis: A teenage loner forces himself into a world of crime to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

Together (2000)

Directed by Lukas Moodysson

Starring Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist and Emma Samuelsson

Synopsis: Set in Sweden in1975, a woman leaves her husband and packs herself and the kids off to her brother's commune.

Harold & Maude (1971)

Directed by Hal Ashby

Starring Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort and Vivian Pickles

Synopsis: Harold, who's young, rich and obsessed with death, meets Maude at a funeral who changes his life forever.

My Neighbour Totoro (1988)

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Starring Hitoshi Takagi, Noriko Hidaka and Chika Sakamoto.

Synopsis: A Japanese animation about two girls who move to the country and meet spirits who live in nearby woods.

Over The Edge (1979)

Directed by Jonathan Kaplan

Starring Matt Dillon, Michael Eric Kramer and Pamela Ludwig.

Synopsis: Kids get bored in a planned community and run amok.

The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

Directed by Seth Gordon

Starring Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell and Mark Alpiger

Synopsis: Documentary about video game fans competing to break world records. Awesome.

Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)

Directed by Byron Haskin

Starring Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin and Adam West

Synopsis: An astronaut stranded on Mars with only a monkey for company has to figure out how to get oxygen, water, and food.

Clue (1985)

Directed by Jonathan Lynn

Starring Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry and Madeline Kahn

Synopsis: Based around the game of Cluedo, six dinner party guests cooperate to solve a murder.

M (1931)

Directed by Fritz Lang

Starring Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann and Inge Landgut.

Synopsis: When a child murderer in Germany goes on the run, other criminals join in the chase.

Old Joy (2006)

Directed by Kelly Reichardt

Starring Daniel London, Will Oldham and Tanya Smith

Synopsis: Two old friends reunite after a long time apart to catch up on a camping trip.

Monsters (2010)

Directed by Gareth Edwards

Starring Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able

Synopsis: Following an alien invasion, a journalist escorts a tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the US border and safety.

Rubber (2010)

Directed by Quentin Dupieux

Starring Stephen Spinella, Roxane Mesquida and Wings Hauser.

Synopsis: An evil tyre (yes, a tyre) named Robert (yes, Robert) discovers he has destructive telepathic powers and sets them to use on a small town. Bonkers.

Skeletons (2010)

Directed by Nick Whitfield

Starring Will Adamsdale, Andrew Buckley and Paul Dallison

Synopsis: Two exorcists remove skeletons from people's cupboards. Not literally, as in, secrets and that.

Deep End (1970)

Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski

Starring Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown and Karl Michael Vogler

Synopsis: A teenager gets a job at a swimming baths and develops an obsession for one of the bathers.

Zatoichi (2003)

Directed by Takeshi Kitano.

Starring Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Yui Natsukawa, Michiyo Ohkusu.

Synopsis: A blind swordsman comes to a town controlled by gangsters.

It's a Friday, so you'll be needing five free tracks all neatly grouped together on this page. You're welcome...

Your fifth and final track comes from show favourites' Lanterns On The Lake. It's an album track from their forthcoming full length debut Gracious Tide, Take Me Home. It's released on the 19th September and expect to hear a lot of tracks from it on the show over the coming weeks.

This week's tracks are:

Tame the Sun - Male Bonding

Spectrals - Big Baby

Best Coast - How They Want Me To Be

Paul Weller - Starlite (D-Pulse remix)

Lanterns On The Lake - You're Almost There

Normally Memory Tapes is about boys and girls getting together. This week, it's about exes. Sorcha O'Higgins writes...

"My ex-boyfriend and I stayed pretty good friends when we broke up a few years ago and made each other mixtapes for each other's birthdays afterwards.

"This one is pretty funny though, because I made him one for his birthday and when he gave me one for mine, it had loads of the same songs on it! Cheating...? I think so..."

Sorcha couldn't lay her hands on the tape, so no artwork this week, but she did provide us with a list of the songs which featured on both tapes, and there's quite a few:

Archie Bronson Outfit - Dart for my Sweetheart

Belle and Sebastian - Seeing Other People

Nina Simone - Baltimore

The White Stripes - Icky Thump

The Beatles - I'm only Sleeping

Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsam

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth

Interpol - Untitled

Bob Dylan - Buckets of Rain

Go on, send Lauren a Memory Tape. You know you want to.

Today's MPFree comes from Mr Paul Weller. He's giving away a D-Pulse remix of his new song Starlite. Starlite won't feature on the next Weller album, it's purely for summer.

The track is available to download now, and is released on 12" on 29th August.

Paul Weller - Starlite (D-Pulse remix)

Your MPFree today is a thank you to the fans. Not from us, but from Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast.

This track is likley to be re-recorded and feature on her second album, but for now here's a demo version:

Best Coast - How They Want Me To Be

This week for the People's Playlist we're focusing on a part of the fallout from the Sony Warehouse fire in Enfield which took with it the PIAS distribution centre.

Many independent labels lost their stock in the blaze and so this week celebrating their work and dedicating an hour of Thursday's show to the music of those artists and labels who've been affected.

You can read a full list of the 165 lables, and then request your track by emailing Lauren, texting 64046 or tweeting @bbc6morningshow.

Your MPFree today comes from 21 year-old Louis Jones AKA Spectrals. His debut album Bad Penny is due for release in October through Witchita Records and this is a taster of things to come.

Spectrals - Big Baby

Your MPFree today comes from East London's Male Bonding.

There's a album on the way from the trio which is out on 29th August through Sub Pop and will be called Endless Now. There's also a single out on the same day, but here it is now for free.

Tame the Sun - Male Bonding

Another brilliant spread of tracks across the week for the MPFrees, and here they are all together for your weekly EP.

Your final track comes from Foster The People, or rather Grouplove's take on it. The two L.A bands of the moment have got together and scratched each others backs in a remix sense. You'll find the link below with the other offerings from this week.

As for the artwork, well, we've got a beaut! In celebration of Thursday's 'Reach For The Lazers Part 2' rave playlist, we asked for your photos from your rave days.

This offering came from Dave (the confused one in the corner) and features his best mates Tom & Euan embracing. It was taken at Dance Planet in 1993 in the Warehouse in Plymouth. They all look like they're having a lovely time:

Your songs this week are:

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks (Grouplove & Captain Cuts Remix)

Milagres - Glowing Mouth

Mates Of State - Maracas

Alex Ebert - Truth (feat. RZA)

Baby You Were There-TV Girl

Some tracks may no longer be available for download

This week's Memory Tapes comes from Claire Dyer and is a mix made for parents; something we don't get much of on the feature.

Claire writes...

"I've been making mix tapes since I was a kid, my latest is this one I made for my mom as a memento of her and my dad's 40th wedding anniversary.

"We had a big party and together we pulled out all our old records, tapes, CDs and mp3s and made a wicked playlist of all the songs that meant something to them over the years - songs that reminded them of each other, me and my brother, and other family members and friends (and including a sneaky song I wrote).

"I stuck them all on my dad's ipod and that was our playlist for the night. Whereas my dad can listen to that anytime, my mom's only got a built-in cassette player in her car so I made her a tape as a memory of an amazing night and life together."

Rather lovely! And here's the tracks...

The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody (first dance)

The Doors - Beak on Through (To the Other Side)

Joan Jett - I Love Rock n Roll

Metallica - Whiskey In The Jar

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch - Hold Tight

Nik Kershaw - The Riddle

The Zombies - Time of the Season

Claire Dyer - Held From Above

The Mamas & the Papas - California Dreamin

The Kinks - Lola

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun

Link Wray - Rumble

The Shadows - Apache

The Beatles - Twist & Shout

Sandy Nelson - The Drums

Blondie - Heart of Glass

Queen - Radio Ga Ga

Adam & the Ants - Stand & Deliver

Duran Duran - Planet Earth

T-Rex - Jeepster

Dolly Parton - Jolene

Tom Jones - She's A Lady

The Firm - Star Trekkin

The Turtles - Happy Together (last dance)

Inspired? Made/recieved a mixtape recently? Email it to Lauren and we'll get you on air and play a few of the track.

Your penultimate MPFree of the week comes from Kill Rock Stars' Milagres.

Their second album, Glowing Mouth is released in September - and here's the title track for you to enjoy:

Milagres - Glowing Mouth

Here's another one then; a download, for you, which is absolutely free. You're welcome...

Today's offering comes from Mates of State; husband and wife duo Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel who've been making beautiful music together since 1997 and in that time have produced 6 albums.

This track comes from their forthcoming seventh album, Mountaintops which is due for release in September.

Mates Of State - Maracas

Today's MPFree is a corker! Aren't they all? Yes of course, but this is a great song which now has added RZA.

Tuesday's offering is 'Truth' by Alex Ebert (of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes) - the orginal version appears on his debut solo album Alexander, but this version features a turn by Wu Tang's RZA. It's epic.

Alex Ebert - Truth (feat. RZA)

Tech-dude Stuart Dredge fills you in on the latest app news and reviews.

NEWS

RCRD LBL

Influential US blog now has an app (available in the UK too) which lets you play and download free songs from all manner of hipster artists, while also creating your own playlists and listening to mixes provided by artists and celebrities.

The Death App

This is pretty spooky but very clever at the same time. The Death App plots all recent car accidents and murders near your current location, so you can see what a dangerous place you live in (or not). The idea is to help house hunters scope out new towns, and also to warn drivers about accident blackspots. Really, though, it's just for death-obsessed paranoiacs who see murderers lurking round every corner.

Streetmuseum Londinium / Buildings

Streetmuseum Londinium is an augmented reality app about Roman London, where you wander around the map looking at artefacts, and watching videos overlaid on the real world of gladiators etc.

Meanwhile, Buildings is an iPhone and Android app about architecture - it has details of 40,000 buildings around the world, and serves up text, images and videos about them. So two apps that get you out and about looking at the real world.

REVIEWS

UberMusic / Panamp

UberMusic is for Android and Panamp is for iPhone, and both do the same thing - replace the music player app that comes with your phone with something 'whizzier'. UberMusic does it with customisable 'skins' (so you can change the look of the player to whatever you want), while Panamp does it with easier playlists and browsing your collection.

AtariTinyRiot

Tiny Riot is an app for letting off steam - you shake your phone and grimace while it makes a big noise. Now it's got an Atari Teenage Riot version, just to make it more noisy. And the camera records your shaking so you can upload your 'tiny riot' to twitter or Facebook. So there's a music angle, but also an interesting story behind it - it was made by Japanese developers who said they wanted to 'release our frustration with the uncertainty of post 3.11 Japan'.

CFG: Cosmo For Guys

Yes, Cosmopolitan has a new iPad app. For men. The idea being it serves up all the bits from Cosmo that they'd otherwise have to sneak a look at a female friend's copy to read. Promises 'eye-popping 3-D sex positions'.

It's part one of five in this weeks MPFREE's, and today it is the latest from the San Diego duo TV Girl with a track called Baby You Were There.

The track is from their new Benny And The Jets EP, of which all tracks have been made available to download for free from the Stereogum website.

In a similar style to their previous self titled EP, the sound is sun dappled indie pop but this time but with a heavier bass backdrop, see what you think below!

Baby You Were There-TV Girl