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Check out the This Day In Bob Dylan app which is designed to bring fans closer to the artist. The app boasts the daily Dylan diary covering 366 days of the year. It features concerts with set lists, song notes and a personal guide to every track from Dylan’s first dozen studio albums, covering 130 songs.

Music app outfit RjDj has launched an augmented sound game which takes in the player’s surroundings and circumstances to create a one-off soundscape and playing experience. The Inception app pulls in influences from five dimensions – kinetic, flux, tranquil, ghost and collective – to build a new sound environment. Kinetic, for example, is influenced by the player’s walking pace, while ghost only comes into play for an hour after midnight.

Columbia Records/Sony Music and entertainment-content website IMDb have launched Not For You, a full-length, unseen music video directed by Cameron Crowe, featuring live, archival performances and behind-the-scenes footage of Pearl Jam exclusively on IMDb.com and on IMDb’s mobile app.

“Who better to tackle a documentary on Pearl Jam, one of the most influential and important bands in the last two decades, than Cameron Crowe, whose experience straddles those decades and bridges journalism and moviemaking,” said Keith Simanton, IMDb’s managing editor.

If you want to tune in to London’s music heritage, there’s an iPhone app for that, says Maria Stadtmueller. Zuzertu has launched the London Music Mapp, a new app for the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad, aimed at entertaining and informing music fans with ‘facts, maps and images which illustrate London’s rich musical heritage, vibrant musical present and unique musical geography’.

The London Music Mapp will show where artists once lived and played, where albums were recorded, or where music was played live for the first time. It also highlights places referenced in songs, London’s well-known – and smaller – concert venues and clubs.

AudioFuel has launched the first iPhone app to combine running music, coaching and performance data, says Mark Terry. The audio-fitness outfit compiles its custom tracks to create specific types of training programme which are then combined with voice-over coaching.

Once they have selected the programme they want, users start running to the music while the app tracks the distance, duration, pace and calories expended. At the end of the session, they can post their run results to Facebook and Twitter.

By Mark Terry. Japan’s leading virtual pop star, Hatsune Miku, is performing live on stage in 3D with the 2011 Toyota Corolla in her own augmented reality experience (available via a metaio app from the iTunes App Store and Android Market)