Apps rush: Pixies, Bjork, Amir Khan, Sid Meier's Pirates! and more

A burst of 15 apps for your consideration Pixies Official Alternative legends Pixies have their own iPhone app, which offers much more than simply news and tweets. There's a free stream of their Purple Tape album, as well as a download of their 2004 Coachella festival set, and on-demand streams of other gigs from the band's career. The app includes gamified features to earn badges, and it ties in to Foursquare, Facebook and Twitter too. Topspin Media and Mobile Roadie are the companies responsible. iPhone Björk: Biophilia Bjork's long-trailed Biophilia app for iPhone and iPad is now out, with one song from the album available as an in-app purchase of £1.49, and ten more to come. The first, Crystalline, includes a tunnel-racing game. You can read more about the app in this article . iPhone / iPad Sid Meier's Pirates! for iPad Gamers of a certain age will be jumping into their Barque and setting sail to plunder Trinidad, thanks to the iPad port of the marvellous Pirates. It's a faithful conversion of the more recent console editions of the game, with new controls for the touchscreen. iPad Amir Khan Mobile Boxer Amir Khan has his own iPhone app, courtesy of developer Addictive Mobility. It serves up training videos, photos and news, along with a one-level preview of Amir's official boxing game, and a trivia quiz. iPhone Syfy for iPad This iPad app is only available in the US, since it's for sci-fi TV channel Syfy. The app offers videos, photos and episode guides, pulls in tweets from stars and creators of shows, and uses the Getglue social service to allow Syfy viewers to check in to individual programmes while watching on another screen. iPad PEGI Pan-European game age-ratings system PEGI has launched a Windows Phone 7 app which lets people browse its database of ratings. It worked with Microsoft on the app, which has search filters for platforms and ratings. The WP7 version joins existing PEGI apps for other smartphones. Windows Phone Morotobi's Adventure Korean developer Tinrobot has released its first iPad book-app, Morotobi's Adventure. It's got more than 40 pages blending animation and sound effects, with interactive elements too. iPad Cars 2 World Grand Prix Read and Race Disney's latest book-app for iOS devices is an original story based on the world of Cars 2, with a storyline taking in races around the world, plus "reader pit stops" for kids to control their own racing teams. iPhone / iPad Viber Voice over IP app Viber has been really popular on iPhone, with more than 12 million active users. Now it has launched an official Android version. It also supports messaging, and works over 3G or Wi-Fi. Android Mingle Mingle has released a pair of iPhone apps – one for New York and one for San Francisco – which are the latest to offer location-based information on bars, clubs and restaurants. The apps pull in data from social networking services to identify which venues are currently hot. iPhone SkyGrid for Tablets SkyGrid is already one of the more popular news aggregation apps on iPad, but it has just been released for Android tablets too. News can be tracked by topic, with notifications and social features built in. Android IsoSketch Pixelrevision's IsoSketch is a very innovative iPad geometric drawing app. Users draw on an angled isometric grid, pulling in backgrounds and then exporting the resulting vector art to be used in other image editing software. iPad Back to the Future Ep 5 HD The fifth episodic installment in Back to the Future's iPad game series is out now from Telltale Games, offering a cinematic interactive spin on the popular movies. iPad Touch DJ Evolution There's a lurking suspicion that soon, there will be more iOS DJ applications than there are people who actually want to DJ with their iOS device. Amidio's Touch DJ Evolution is the latest contender, a rewrite of an existing app called Amidio Touch DJ. iPhone / iPad Mielophone Mielophone is described by CrackBerry as 'an open source music streaming app' for BlackBerry PlayBook, enabling users to search for songs and play them. BlackBerry You can follow Guardian Apps Blog's Apps rush on delicious To suggest links, tag articles on delicious.com with "guardianappsblog"