It's the finale of Season 2 of Outer Limited, with a very special guest: Liz Warner, host of Altnerate Take, heard Thursday evenings at 8pm on WDET. Liz Warner has been long-known to late-night Detroit audiences as Liz Copeland and is an award-winning multimedia journalist specializing in audio. She started in Detroit as a nightly live radio producer and host on NPR affiliate WDET in 1995. On a continual quest to get closer to the meaning behind the music, and we certainly dig into that on THIS episode. Liz has also been credited as a music writer and editor, television host, event and ex ..read more

Nick Chevillet and Adam Padden from a new sextet known as Starlings are on this week's episode with Chad and Jeff, talking about their band, and also their long friendship, with collaborative ties in this local music scene dating back to 2010. Nick and Adam are both in HandGrenades, but then we gotta talk about Tart, and then we gotta talk about other solo projects, and then we gotta talk about the rest of the bandmates IN the aforementioned Starlings!  Starlings have a new EP that's coming out in January!  ..read more

Singer/songwriter and filmmaker (and painter) Chloe Drallos is hanging out with Chad and Jeff this week to talk about her recently released short film, "The Rosy Crucifixion," born out of a music video for a track from her latest album, Earthly Delights, under the moniker of Zilched. Drallos has been writing, recording, and performing as Zilched, either solo or with a full band, for nearly 7 years now, with a handful of releases, plenty of shows, and even some touring under her belt. But, this month marks the beginning of a longed-for hiatus for that project as Drallos begins to focus more on ..read more

This week, Eric Allen from Loose Koozies swings by to tell us about his band's forthcoming album, Passing Through You. Eric and Jeff go waaay back, to the late 00's, when they were both writers at a now defunct local music magazine, and they've been friends ever since. But, we're also having a splendid conversation about both Eric's own journey through music and the ongoing journey of Loose Koozies, which also features Pete Ballard, Erin Davis, Nick German, and Audrey Moran.  Their release party is coming up on December 7 at..., where else, but: The Outer Limits Lounge!  https://loos ..read more

This week, Kate Derringer from SHADOW SHOW joined Chad and Jeff to talk about the psych-pop trio's busy year of touring and their most recently released album, Fantasy Now! which was engineered and mixed by Kate! When she isn't writing/recording/performing with Shadow Show, Kate works as a professional freelance audio engineer, consistently busy with local projects, working out of High Bias Studios in Corktown. But, as Kate reveals on our podcast, she's working with a small collective of fellow engineers/mixers to get their own studio space up and running soon!    ..read more

Singer/songwriter Emily Rose Seward of the band Rose St Germaine visited Chad and Jeff to talk about her unique musical story, including starting out on the organ, learning the dulcimer, becoming an English teacher, and eventually utilizing songwriting as a form of pure therapy. The band's been recording and performing around the scene for several years now, with a couple of albums up on Bandcamp. On November 16, they'll be releasing a 7" vinyl featuring two new songs, including "You'll Always Love Me" and "Two Long," capped off with a show at The Congregation. Emily also brought an entire "cu ..read more

This week, Chad and Jeff chat with guitarist/bassist/drummer/singer/songwriter Connor Dodson! Connor's been a utility player for several bands, including Frontier Ruckus, Prude Boys, and The Craig Brown Band, along with developing his own projects like Quickdraw, and even performing/recording under his own name! He has several stories from the road to share and elucidating what he loves most about music ..read more

This week, Chad and Jeff are chatting with ZEM! That's Zoe, Emily and Morgan, who comprise this spry, stylish, and sometimes silly garage-pop trio, with their first initials inspiring the name of the band. We talk about the formation of the band and their past experience, which ranges from basically being raised in the music scene since childhood (Zoe), to having some performance time and band-life already under their belt (Emily), to this being their first time playing in a band (Morgan).  We talk about their first EP, their newest recordings, and the adrenaline of performing live. We al ..read more

This week, Chad and Jeff visited the new Passenger Recovery community center on Caniff, where they interviewed the organization's director, Christopher Tait, and their director of programming, Bryan Wolf. They talked about the origins and mission of Passenger, as well as a lot of new developments over the last couple of years; both Tait and Wolf shared their own stories as well as their musical backgrounds.  We talked a lot about their upcoming Guided Music Listening program (hosted at Passenger Recovery) on Saturday, October 6th at 2pm: Innovation and Revolution – Polish Music from Medie ..read more

Krystian Quint came over to hang out in Chad's basement, talking about his own personal history & upbringing as a musician, as well as the formation of the renowned local punk/blues trio known as the Stools. We talk about 90s punk, the influence of the Gories, meeting and then collaborating with Dan Kroha, and the start of Quint's new solo project: Krystian Quint and the Quitters.  The Stools are playing at the Outer Limits Lounge this Saturday & The Quitters are playing at the Outer Limits Lounge this Sunday.  photo by Joshua James   https://krystianquint666.bandcamp.co ..read more