Reviews

Crescent Fresh: The Mondales

Crescent Fresh is the second album by The Mondales, a three-piece pop punk band coming from St. Louis. As an upcoming group from a genre where bands like New Found Glory, Blink-182 and Paramore already flourish, they sure have a numerous challenges to conquer but nevertheless their humble beginnings will eventually lead to their inevitable mainstream success.

Lego Digital Designer

Lego Digital Designer is a free program from Lego that allows you to play and build Lego on your computer. With this program you can build anything your mind conceives, the only difference from the real thing is that you don’t have to pay for it. It’s a lot of fun, and just as cool as playing with real bricks.

Tymphony: A Wish for Awaking in the Dream

Bringing you fun and energy-filled symphonies, A Wish for Awaking in the Dream will surely awaken your senses. Formed in 2004 at Bosphorus University, the Istanbul-based band Tymphony derives its name from the combination of the words "tempo" and "symphony". This ten-track collection encapsulates their name as it features a rhythmic mixture of oriental ambient, symphonic forms, and icelandic elements.

Planetary

lanetary is a free music visualizer for the iPad. Listening to music on your tablet involves scrolling through playlists and staring every now and then at album art. With this free app from Bloom Studio the artists and albums in your music library are displayed as stars floating in the cosmos. It is in short, unique and visually arresting.

Beats Antique: Collide

Collide by Beats Antique might be several years old but it has aged beautifully. The album combines a fusion of electronica with world beats created by two formidable artists. It's then topped off by the hypnotizing moves of belly dancer, Zoe Jakes. The main maestros behind this eclectic sound includes, David Satori and Tommy Cappel. Both artists come together from a host of different backgrounds, having performed at their own respective bands and and musical outfits. Together with Zoe Jake, Beats Antique creates an explosive fusion of Western hip hop style beats laced with an undeniable exotic flair.

One Epic Knight

There are lots of endless runner games out there, and One Epic Knight is one of them. But this game from Simutronics is more than just a rip-off of other runners, as it brings something new to the table. In the game you play a knight who is going through a dungeon destroying orcs, smashing obstacles and collecting treasure all at the same time.

Remington Beach Club: My Trivial Pursuit of Happiness

My Trivial Pursuit of Happiness might be a few years old but the years haven't robbed it from its unique sound. Delivered by Bremen based quintet, Remington Beach Club; it features a mix of old school, indie and even slightly surfer rock. The band is composed of "Pretty Gridschneider, Michael Meraklis, J.R. Rip-Off, Schmidtrock, and Vuk Voltage." My Trivial Pursuit of Happiness serves as the group's first official album after debuting with an EP titled "Welcome To..." back in 2007. It contains 10 available tracks that are absolutely free for download. However, if you like the band and feel like supporting them you can also purchase a copy of it over at Amazon.

Max for Mac

Max for Mac is a program for extracting and generating audio files in various formats including WAV, mp3, Apple Lossless, Ogg, AIFF, FLAC and many more. The Max for Mac development team ensures the application supports more than 30 compressed and uncompressed formats.