Outer Limited: The Outer Limits Lounge Podcast

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....

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...

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-lif...

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 ba...

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...

MRKT are an experimental electro-prog/punk-jazz duo featuring Ben Van Camp, on vocals and drums, and  Nolan Tillis, playing the Moog bass, electric piano, synthesizers, and fuzz organ! Their most recent record, Hearsay, was released under the Outer Limits Lounge Records label, back in the fall of 2022. Last week, Chad and Jeff invited the pair over to  Chad's basement to talk about their early day...

This week, Chad and Jeff welcome Jeff Fournier into the bar to talk about, among many things, the upcoming Hamtramck Labor Day Festival! Jeff is a bassist, guitarist, and frequent synth-wizard, who's been in several bands, including Heroes & Villains and Timmy's Organism; to date, he's still performing with the Wiccans (a band that's on the lineup for the Labor Day fest, this weekend). We also...

This week, Chad and Jeff welcome Aleahia Thompson and Chris Campbell, the two founding members of the punk-rock quartet Day Residue. They chat about their productive couple of years, releasing two EPs and performing several shows around the region. Aleahia also talks about her other band, Rough Patch, while Chris shares some memories from his days in Terrible Twos. We also talk quite a bit about S...

Mike Kuzmanovski is a self-taught musician and producer living abroad in a diplomatic capacity. Currently helping out in Facilities Management at the US Embassy in Lusaka, I was also the Diplomatic Pouch and Mailroom Supervisor in Pretoria, South Africa between 2018 and 2020.  He was based in Ann Arbor from 2000-2009, where he was active in the local music scene and eventually got signed to Ghostl...

This week, Chad decided to just simply interview Jeff! Jeff Milo is the host of MI Local, heard Tuesdays at 9pm on WDET, but he's also worked at the Ferndale Library for several years, coordinating live music and art exhibitions! Jeff also talks about growing up in Ferndale and other random adventures.  www.wdet.org  

This week, Chad and Jeff welcomed Vanessa Ilene Beard into the bar to talk about her studio space, Porcelinen, where she hosts ceramics classes/workshops. We talked about the art of ceramics, but we ALSO talked about Vanessa's musical projects, including the garage-pop group known as Co-Stars, which has now evolved into Nancy Friday! We talk about kilns, songwriting, Kim Gordon, and so much more!...

This week, Chad and Jeff are chatting with three musicians from three different bands. Even though each band, Extra Arms, Big Life, and Speed Circuit, share a similarity: i.e., they all have Ryan Allen as a member! Ryan Allen is the lead singer and songwriter from Extra Arms, Dan Nixon is the lead singer from Big Life, and John Nelson is the lead singer/guitarist from Speed Circuit. We're talking...

Linda Ann Jordan has a new band! More on that, in a sec, but meanwhile: Chad and Jeff welcomed Linda Ann Jordan to the bar to chat about her origins as a songwriter, poet, and also visual artist (watercolor paintings!). Linda was in a fantastic lo-fi indie-rock group known as Best Exes during a good chunk of the latter 2010s, but she's been a fan and ardent supporter of the local music scene for y...

This week, Chad and Jeff actually recorded an interview OUTSIDE of the bar... We were still indoors, though, so to speak. We were down in Chad's basement when virtuosic guitarist and music educator Nick Schillace stopped by to talk about finger-picking guitar styles and the nuances of the acoustic guitar, as an instrument. We talked about the blues, bluegrass, and "folk," and we also talked about...

This week, Chad and Jeff welcome Deleano Acevedo from the dream-pop quintet Mango Star, to talk about, among other things, ambient music, production, serendipity, and more! Mango Star have recently released their second album, Totally Normal, following up their debut, Wasted Daydream. The hosts get awfully nostalgic, in the best way, with Delenao, since they've all been running around this music s...

This week, Chad and Jeff welcome an esteemed and established songwriter, wordsmith and guitarist, Ryan Dillaha, joining us to talk about his several solo albums and various other projects (like The Miracle Men) and musical adventures (gigging in bars, house-shows, and what-not). Dillaha comes from a working-class family, tying back to the River Rouge Steel Plant, and while he's able to riff with t...

Chad and Jeff welcome Lauren Mercury into the bar to chat about two of the unique bands that she plays in, including the Detroit Party Marching Band and Troy Gregory & the Mercury Gauntlett! So we're talking about "crashing" marching bands, we're talking about parties, we're talking about prog-rock, we're talking about the Beatles, and we're talking about the FLUTE! And so much more, because L...

This week, at the Outer Limits Lounge, Chad and Jeff welcomed Cinquex and McKenna of the rock duo CHECKER. McKenna plays drums and sings lead vocals, while Cinquex is on guitar and backing vocals. The energetic pair of musicians share their excitement for music, as well as several entertaining tangents about movies, golf, Sigourney Weaver, and more! We also talk about their newest songs, including...

Chad and Jeff welcomed all four members of Deadbeat Beat, Maria, Alex, Zak and Pete to the bar, recently, to talk about..., well, kind of: everything! We talk about the origin story of this surf-punk band, as well as their myriad influences, and share quite a few entertaining anecdotes from recent tours and shows. We also talk about: chocolate, pianos, Australia, and Arby's!  Find more info and li...

Chad and Jeff are back in the bar for season 2! Back in March, right after the 2024 Hamtramck Blowout, the members of SSM, John Szymanski, Dave Shettler, and Marty Morris, sat down together to tell their whirlwind story, having formed in the mid-2000s for a frenetic 5+ year period, with a handful of albums, international touring, long crazy road trips and long crazy nights! Buckle in, cuz they've...

Way back when, 2016-2018, Chad, Jeff, and Kristi had a mobile YouTube Talk Show that featured interviews with guests AS WELL AS live performances from a variety of bands. Today, on this very special archive episode, we're bringing out those exclusive live recordings captured at locations all across Detroit.  Find the playlist of YouTube episodes, filmed by Kristi Billings, HERE .  Artists featured...

This week, we're digging up one more episode from our "lost" archives--a conversation with Sean Clancy, longtime bassist of Child Bite. This is a punk/metal band formed by Shawn Knight back in 2005, and they've since released more than a dozen albums and EPs and toured the U.S. with notable acts like Down, Voivod, Negative Approach and Phil Anselmo (of Pantera). Clancy's been a member of the band...

Here's another episode from our "lost" archives: Dave Shettler visited Chad's old house back in 2019 to talk with us about music. I wish I could be more specific about that, but frankly this is a wide-ranging philosophical discussion about so many facets of music, the musician's life, the creative process, (and not to mention a bunch of crazy anecdotes), that the best way to sum it up is to simply...

This will be NEW to just about EVERYONE! An episode from a "lost podcast" from the unsearchable archives! We've dug up an interview from 2019, recorded in Southfield. But trust us, this will 100% FEEL and SOUND like a regular Outer Limited episode. Enjoy! Chad and Jeff interviewed producer/engineer/musician Zach Shipps of RV Audiolabs https://rvaudiolab.com/ Shipps is also well-known for his long...

Chad and Jeff look back on 25 episodes of the Outer Limits Lounge Podcast! Thanks for listening!