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This Day in Music will release a Pink Floyd iPhone/iPad app tomorrow.

The app is officially sanctioned by the band, according to the company, and will feature 100,000 words devoted to Floyd for 366 days and will sell for £1.99 ($2.99).

This is the second app from the Hayfield, Derbyshire, U.K. company, whose other assets include a Web site and book. It released its popular Led Zeppelin app in ’10 and is planning a third to be devoted to Bob Dylan.

In addition to information on the Floyd’s activities for every day of the year, the app will include trivia questions, notes about every Floyd studio track, loads of photos and graphics, embedded video (“Point Me at the Sky”), a ringtone (“Shine on You Crazy Diamond”) and wallpaper.

This Day in Pink Floyd will be available in the iTunes Store Nov. 14. For more information, visit the company’s Web site.

A custom-painted guitar signed by the surviving members of Pink Floyd is on the auction block to benefit a favorite charity of David Gilmour.

Gilmour, Roger Waters and Nick Mason have all signed the pick guard of the Fender guitar, which has been custom designed with “Dark Side of the Moon” illustrations by artist Ian Emes.

Emmes, who also signed the guitar, is a British animator and film director who has created animated films shown during Floyd concerts and on their DVDs. His guitar artwork mimics the animations shown in concert when the band performs “Time.”

Proceeds of the auction will benefit Crisis, an organization working to end homelessness.

The project is well on its way to raising some serious coin for the organization: Bidding stands at $21,000, with the auction set to expire at 2:45 p.m. (ET) on July 14.

Place your bid online.

Wisconsin post-hardcore group Misery Signals covers Pink Floyd’s “Us and Them” on the soundtrack to the new video game “Homefront.”

The 11-song soundtrack — all cover songs with the theme of warfare — is available as a free download for a limited time. The first 25,000 visitors to the game’s soundtrack site can download the music. The offer went live earlier today.

Here’s the track listing:

1. War Ensemble — As I Lay Dying
2. Fight the Power – The Dillinger Escape Plan feat. Chuck D
3. Uprising — iwrestledabearonce
4. War Pigs — The Acacia Strain
5. One — Periphery
6. Fortunate Son — The Ghost Inside
7. For What It’s Worth — Winds of Plague
8. Us and Them — Misery Signals
9. Masters of War — Arsonists Get All the Girls
10. War — Oceano
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday — Veil of Maya

“Us and Them,” written by Roger Waters and Rick Wright, originally appeared on Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” (1973).

“Homefront” was released by THQ Inc. March 15 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows. It’s a first-person shooter that takes place in a fictional future America that’s been economically devastated and occupied by a foreign power.