Zone-casts: The Echo Chamber

It's the final episode of the year! The Echo Crew closes out 2012 with their Top 5 Favorite... things? Also AnimeCow is back due to a Christmas miracle. Topics include: Top 5 Rhythm Bastard Impressions, Top 5 AnimeCow Episodes of 2012, Top 5 Arcade Games, Top 5 Weirdest Music Moments of 2012, Top 5 Necrophiliac Pick-Up Lines, Top 5 Indie Games of 2012, and more! This episode is dedicated to the memory of Rhythm Bastard. We lost him to the apocalypse.

DING! Oh no, the Echo Crew forgot to come up with a topic again! Quick... start reading off lists of dumb music stuff from the Internet! Topics include: Chris Brown, Jeff's grandma hates buttons, musicians with advanced degrees, pirates, Eminem's daughter deletes her Twitter, making successful songs that were originally jokes, holographic Tupac, Cher: The Musical, and more! (TRIGGER WARNING: Controllers)

Happy Birthday, Rock Band! The Echo Crew celebrates 5 years of the Rock Band video game franchise, which makes sense since they all work on the Rock Band Network. Topics include: Whose Line, how they got into Rock Band, scoring on vocals is stupid, terrible RB1 charts, first DLC purchases, no one likes KISS, more Muse confirmed, and more! BONUS: We reveal this week's RBN Undercover artist/song combo early!

Yeah... I have no clue what the overarching theme of this episode is. This show is getting weird. Topics include: Mystakin explains Curiosity, Telltale's Walking Dead game, Santa stories, Rise of the Guardians, Hillbilly Shakespeare, Gundam Wing, hashmob, pirates, Spongebob referencing Blazing Saddles, and... more? BONUS: We leak the first song/artist combo for RBN Undercover!

On this week's episode, The Echo Crew discussed their favorite theme songs and jingles! Topics include: tossed salad and scrambled eggs, Seinfeld problems, killing Barney, TMBG is a kids band, Whigs vs. The Bullmoose Party, anime, The TV EP, hints toward PAX East, Crossfire Facts, and more!

This week, the Echo Crew discusses movie soundtracks! Also Arcanon pops in late for some reason. Topics include: Mystakin trivia, Digimon: The Movie, John Foggerty copying himself, 37, iconic 80's themes, improvised movie scenes, fighting to Jason Mraz songs, whistling, Requiem for a Dream, Chemical Method, Disney, and more!

OoooOOOoooOOOh! This week is Halloween, so this week's episode is full of tricks and treats as the Echo Crew discusses The Rocky Horror Picture Show! Also Arcanon's microphone is haunted, hence why he sounds like garbage. Topics include: Avril Lavigne covering Nickelback, Jeff and Cow can no longer be friends, Nigel Thornberry, SPOILERS, Paolo's phone makes a cameo, screencasts, The Room, Who Lives Closest to a Cheesecake Factory, The Career of Tim Burton, Party Zombies, and more!

This week, despite being down to three people, The Echo Crew is discussing dance video games! From the classic step-on-arrows games to the recent releases on Kinect, they're going over their past experiences and favorite games in the genre. Topics include: replacing words in songs with other random words, essential DDR songs, Just Dance and Dance Central are witchcraft, soundtrack exporting, Superman kicked Batman's ass at a dance-off, Hamronix, "Moves Like Jagger" haunting Mystakin, and more! WARNING: Dance Central 2 and 3 story spoilers.

This week, the Echo Crew sits down and talk about their past experiences going to live concerts, along with hints toward a possible panel at PAX East? Topics include: High school concerts, Blink-182 is raunchy, CardioCinema, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, MC Chris stand-up, drum machine solos, flashing contests, Jeff has connections, Limp Bizkit covers Metallica at a Metallica concert, Billie Joe gets tired, paper airplane business cards, Ass Twinkies, and more! Plus a special appearance by Rhythm Dad!

In this episode, you'll learn more about the Echo Crew and their musical tastes. That's because the theme is their musical backgrounds and histories! Topics include: Time Travel and the Lottery, Working in Dead Kennedys Song Titles, Early Lil Bastard Stories, Mystakin's Weird Past, Ron Wasserman Trolling, MIXTAPES, Awesome Gospel Music, Maroon 5 and Finger Eleven are the Same Band, Marathon Monopoly, Doom Albums, Napster Bands, and more!

This week, the Echo Crew really didn't prepare a topic to discuss. So it's a random grab bag of weird stuff! Topics include: Katy Perry/Glee, Pandering to the Gays, Salacious Melodies, "Safe Bands", Billy Joe Armstrong's Meltdown, making fun of AnimeCow, An Attempt at Writing a New Song About Solo Cups, International Music's Influence on American Music (and Vice Versa), Terrible Couplets, and more?

This week, we're talking music videos! The Echo Crew seems to really like music videos, since this is easily the longest episode yet! Topics include: AnimeCow mocks Ellen Degeneres, Cigar Solos, Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, David Cross and the Chipmunks, Mystakin's Thomas Dolby phase, creepy puppets, Limos That Are Too Long, RANDOM RAP, and more!

This week, the Echo Crew discusses songs they like bands they hate! Yes, it's a flip on what happened two episodes ago. Topics include: Super Smash Bros., Nickelback changed Mystakin's life, a random spoken version of Flo Rida's "Low", DRINK, Fergie shows up at Jeff's house, tigers jumping into the water, Nommy-gramminated, Pink Floyd can write some damn lyrics, and more! WARNING: There's a lot of singing in this episode.

This week The Echo Crew gets Blitzed! Rock Band Blitz just came out, and since everyone on the show works on the Rock Band Network it only makes sense that they talk about their experience with it and their take on the soundtrack. Topics include: the useless tutorial, Paolo's dad is a southern belle, AnimeCow's favorite song in the game isn't in the game, overused E3 game trailer songs, COINS, Facebook apps that are on Facebook, an infomercial fantasy, Harmonix advocates drunk driving, and more!

Hey, the entire Echo Crew showed up this week! In this episode they cover bad songs by good artists, because even your favorite bands drops a crappy record every now and then. Topics include: "Hey Jude", Dubstep Muse, back to front, indie people like Radiohead, war sucks, Nickelback ripping off Nickelback, a jock song done by nerds, and more!

This week The Echo Crew sells out! You knew they'd do anything for the Ozone Bucks(TM). AnimeCow isn't present, so he's not getting in on these sweet deals. His loss. Topics include: doing drugs on a Carnival Cruise, Green Day is a 4-man band, Metallica cashing in, Paolo's mom, Jeff's Of Montreal cover band, a stereo interruption, music prodouching, and more!

This week, it's all about Auto-Tune! You know, that thing cheaters use to cheat. The Echo Crew sit down and discuss their views on this piece of technology, which they personally would never use. Topics include: Cher believes in life after love, AnimeCow can't tell the difference between pre- and post-production, the Milli Vanilli scandal, Britney Spears in tight spandex, Auto-Tune the News, Hamtaro inventing Auto-Tune, Skato-Tune, Glee music creating kidney stones, and more!

This week the Echo Crew is down to three again. And no, AnimeCow does not randomly show up this time. In this episode the dynamic trio discusses Pop music! Topics include: Their high salary working on this podcast, the Clear Channel monopoly, Green Day as pop punk, kids getting into music early, Katy Perry (Jeff is fired), Chumbawumba's BACK back catalog, Gotye being a pirate, and more!

Have you ever heard or said the phrase "I listen to everything except country/rap"? The Echo Crew have. This week they delve into why you should open up your musical taste and stop being a generalizing jerk. Topics include: Breaking news from Mystakin's mom, Rhythm Bastard gets cock-blocked by Nickleback, Jeff rides the Internet Super Highway for answers, Post-Shania Country, Malcolm X punching people in the face, CowPunk, and more! BONUS: Stay tuned at the end for outtakes!

In this episode, the Echo Crew is missing two members until AnimeCow magically shows up 9 minutes into the show out of nowhere. Don't ask how or why. After that, the Crew discusses covers! Topics include: Weird Al is awesome, Cow hates Bob Dylan, Rhythm Bastard forgets Beatles lyrics, Jeff sings Marilyn Manson, Mystakin stalls forever, and more!