Playing Games is What We Do Best

After I finally shoveled myself out of the dreary winter stupor that found me neglecting my duties to indie rock, I decided to kick back into gear with a favorite artist of mine... Laron Bybee. You might remember this soldier wrote quite a touching original Christmas song featured back in December. And as promised, here's another one direct from his channel entitled, "The Games You Play."

For fans of Teddy Geiger, Howie Day, Jason Mraz, and John Mayer, you're sure to like the sounds of this one. Although not technically an aspiring musician by his own admission, Laron Bybee succeeds where others fail... taking a pleasing music style and giving it a quality all his own without making it sound overproduced, overdone, or overrated. And the lyrics are unique, too. How can you go wrong with that?

So show some indie rock appreciation and take a listen to "The Games You Play."



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More AnaFree

YouTube favorite AnaFree is back with a new video! This Portugal songstress had her videos pulled (for some mysterious reason) a couple months ago, but that's old news. They're all back - with interest.

Ana was born in Cascais, Portugal, raised in Lisbon, but filmed her video in Canterbury. Our guess? This girl gets around, and it looks like she's done a few gigs, no less. And don't forget to wish her Happy Birthday - her twentieth birthday's on Friday!

Anyhoo, her most recent song is entitled, "Nothing to Fear," unquestionably one of her best. So check it...

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Brienna Lauren

American singer/songwriter Brienna Lauren might be an 18-year-old missionary kid in Croatia, but music is her second calling. Apparently everything isn't peaches and roses in Croatia, either. Brienna's music is uplifting on the one hand, but thought-provoking on the other. "Front Lines", below, wrenches of troubled teens and the satire of life in a way not too many of us think about.

Front Lines


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ViRGiNiE

A girl, a guitar, a voice and some songs... that's how ViRGiNiE, aka Mischaaa, describes herself. Along with Piper, her guitar, ViRGiNiE pens some of the sweetest French folk songs that ever you heard. This bilingual songstress/guitarist made it famous this week on the front page of YouTube, but her best songs are yet undiscovered.

Ce Soir (This Evening, tonight)


Regarde (Look)


My Angel - For the French language challenged


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Kylie - Are We "Still Friends?"

Are you ready for the next talented female artist? She looks like Carrie Underwood, sounds like Carrie Underwood, and... ooops, except, she's more talented than Carrie Underwood. Meet Kylie, the new sixteen-year-old girl on the block, who seems to have snuck her way to a couple thousand views on YouTube in just a few months. "Still Friends," to which she wrote both the lyrics and the music, has a fantastic tonal quality unlike a lot of other um, shall we say, sub-par YouTubers.



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Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

Don't pick on the name... how did they know Yeltsin would die so soon? And don't say for one minute that they were trying to snag publicity; they named themselves MONTHS before, um, yesterday. So enjoy the music. They sort of sound a little like Weezer, and a little like Peter Bjorn. But nevermind what I think they sound like... it's what you think that matters! So feel free to comment.

First up is "I Am Warm and Powerful." With a name like this, the song can't be bad.



One word of advice. If your house is on fire, don't call these guys. The song is called "House Fire" for a reason.



OKAY, so it's filmed in their neighborhood AND their home. But we don't care. This one sounds like George Harrison, more or less, so sit back and the view of "Pangea." And say hello to the dino for me. Please.



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Kitchen Diaries - aka Too Much Time on His Hands

Aside from just plain having too much time on his hands, this kitchen dude with the blonde wig can really chunk out some beat box rhythm. With his mouth. No, the bowls aren't making the "boom-chic-ah" that only a human can spit out. I wonder how tired his mouth must have been after shooting the footage. I dare you to watch it until the end... I want you to tell me how exactly that pan grew.

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Flautist Fantasy

This flautist really knows how to blow! Once he finally finishes adjusting himself, that is. I almost lost interest after the first five seconds of him-hawing around waiting for this guy to start playing. But it was worth the ride, though. He injects the Jethro Tull sound of Ian Anderson into this Inspector Gadget remix for one sweet piece. The percussion in the background adds a nice touch, too.