New video from Mr. Jon Hope.  Microphone check-check it out.

Now name the instrumental.  Song title, artist, and producer. Do it.

New track off of I Self Divine’s latest release, The Upliftment Struggle. This “mixtape” is available for free download here or if you want to try it out for size and stream it first, head over to the man’s Soundcloud page. Production for “Up Aboves” is courtesy of Benzilla and Mike Swoop. My first taste of both Benzilla and I Self Divine was off of Bk-One and Benzilla’s Radio Do Canibal, which is one of my favorite compilation albums ever. The Rhymesayers camp is giving away The Upliftment Struggle in preparation for I Self Divine’s The Sounds of Low Class America, which will be out this May.

It’s a cool, dreary day in Long Beach, California today, and this track fits perfectly into the vibe the weather is giving off. I hope everyone out there is having a good Tuesday and shit.

Love: A great four-letter word.  Much like “Echo.”  And Help!

Let us know what you think of the new video!

If you’ve been a TECB reader for any span of time, then you should know these three dudes — Swann Notty x j.DePina x Chachi Carvlho — are favorites of mine. That said, it’s no surprise I’m ecstatic to hear news of the brothers from The Bucket gathering for a full-length album under the name of Thr33 Piece Suit.

Those of you looking for more Brand New Vintage, keep The Echo Chamber Blog in your daily routine. I’ll be supporting this at every chance.

Last week I was ripped about how many shit-bumb, flat-out ignorant music submissions I received. Some people are just ridiculous with it. I vowed not to come back to TECB until I was either contacted with exceedingly excellent news and/or music, or, at the very least, once I settled down and stopped hating everything that isn’t Kinda Kinks or Vodka & Ayahuasca. Thankfully I’ve calmed, as have the slew of careless morons submitting music.  My email is now filled with potential posts, and I’m going to try to crank out a few before my eyes start to bleed from an entire day in front of the geek box.

This new video from Pretty Lights wasn’t what made me drop everything, but it marked the start of worthy, above average material piling-up in my inbox that should be heard and seen by my people.  One intention of “We Must Go On,” noted in the YouTube details, was to “communicate a range of feelings and open-ended ideas,” which I believe they (PL and his homegirl) accomplished.

If you like the song, the download can be had over at the Pretty Lights website. Yes, for free.

C-Rayz Walz pays homage to the late Michael Larson, aka Eyedea, and revisits the freestyle battle scene from yesteryear. Freddie Bunz is featured on the track; he’s also paying homage but his verse is dedicated to a “one of the most beloved women” in Freddie’s life. You don’t see too many tribute songs these days, which is a shame because they’re usually quite powerful and moving. The D.I.T.C. tribute to Big L on their album comes to mind as an especially moving tribute record.

Shoot us some comments with your take on tributes. Our thoughts, as always, are with the Larson and Rhymesayers families.

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Here’s Megabusive’s video for “Dialtone,” from his 365-songs-in-365-days project. That’s right, he made a song a day for a year. That’s more songs (write, record, and in most cases produced) in a year than I take showers in a year. I’m not ashamed to admit that. Save water, yo.

Chip promised a productive 2012 and dude’s already been featured 3 times in the first month. I think he’s making some head way on his promise. Peep his recent TECB features here. And support the man, he’s got a real nasty shoe addiction.

“I’m from gun-slinging-C-A.”

There’s yet to be a negative word on Evidence’s Cats and Dogs and rightfully so. Here’s the latest from the Rhymesayer, the video for “Falling Down.” Ev reps California harder than most.

Bought this album today. It’s great. So is the video. But I’m so wiped that I don’t have many words to share with y’all. That said, I’ll probably be back here on TECB sometime in the future to get down on a legit post about Vodka & Ayahuasca, the sophomore effort from Alan the Chemist and Dr. No.

Until then, feel free to lace the comment section with your ripened brain-bubbles.

I’ve waxed poetic on PremRock & Willie Green’s self titled album a few times on the pages of TECB. “Diary of Dreamer” and “Had to be Me” were both featured and then I named their album in my ambiguous year in review post.

“Jogger” is yet another single off the duo’s album and they got together with Open Mike Eagle to make some visuals for it. It’s a laid back, slow-paced song about getting caught by someone’s beauty, and how day dreaming about a life with said beauty can get you into visualizing about future arguments over Wu-Tang tracks. For the record, I dig “Gravel Pit.” I’ve also tried to come up with a non-sexist way to appreciate the actress they hired on to play the jogger. I came up empty, so, word to yoga pants.