Outer Limited: The Outer Limits Lounge Podcast

Season 1 is just about wrapped up, but in the meantime, we thought we'd resurrect "episode # 1" for any new listeners out there! This is a flash back to the first week of March, 2023, when we had author & songwriter Josh Malerman join us for our very first recording. We hope you enjoy! Stay tuned for more special content in the weeks ahead!  Bonus music: "Starz" by Carjack. 

We're getting this episode out just in time for the Idiot Kids album release party, which will be hosted at the Outer Limits Lounge on Sat., December 2nd. If you missed that, then that shouldn't stop you from pressing play on this wonderful interview with the band's lead singer/songwriter/guitarist, Jon-Mikal Bartee. Just ignore Jeff's kinda muffled vocals on the recording.  To quote Jeff: "The Id...

Chad and Jeff were joined by the one and only John Krautner, singer/songwriter/guitarist, known for his tenure in THE GO as well as CONSPIRACY OF OWLS, along with his solo project and his 2015 album, Fun With Gum, Vol. 1. Krautner shared his origin stories, the early days of The Go, and his love for "bubblegum" music, as well as a preview of what might yet be to come for him in the near future, mu...

This week, Chad and Jeff welcomed the one and only Wendy Case into the Outer Limits Lounge for an extended chat about her life as a musician. Wendy Case is known for her signature voice and dynamic stage presence, having written, recorded and performed with several bands, including Ten High, The Paybacks, and most recently, Royal Sweets. From her childhood days learning ukulele and guitar to her f...

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Danny Kroha visits the Outer Limits Lounge to talk about his first guitar, the formation of the Gories, the blues, and so much more. Kroha co-founded the Gories with Mick Collins and Peg O'Neil, and played alongside Margaret Doll-Rod in the Demolition Doll-Rods throughout most of the 90s, (the latter band recorded several albums and toured extensively). Danny has since...

This week, singer/songwriter Jim Byrne swung by the Outer Limits Lounge to talk with Chad and Jeff about his various musical projects, including the freak-folk duo, Ohio Wild, the folk-rock band Burning Ponies, and a new series of solo recordings inspired, literally, by the Planet Earth, and conceptually inspired by David Attenborough. Jim also brought his banjo to the proverbial table to sing us...

Guitarist/singer/producer/songwriter Mike Latcha swung by the Outer Limits Lounge to hang out on stage with Jeff and Chad, talking about his origins as a musician and how he got into audio engineering. Mike has been "on the scene," so to speak, for nearly 20 years, going back to the mid-2000s with indie rock band Freer, and then later with the psychedelic-rock band Electric Lion Soundwave Experime...

Singer/songwriter Emily Rose joins Chad and Jeff inside the Outer Limits Lounge to talk about some of her favorite artists of all time, all of whom are, specifically, dearly departed. That's because Emily hosts a monthly show at the Ghost Light in Hamtramck, officially called " Ghost Night at the Ghost Light ," where she performs two sets, with one set dedicated to covers of a featured artist from...

This week, Chad and Jeff welcome singer/guitarist Stacey MacLeod of Dear Darkness into the Outer Limits Lounge to talk about her band's upcoming album, Boozin' & Loozin', which is out October 14 on Remove Records! Stacey has been creating/performing rock-centric music with Dear Darkness for several years, which you might interpret as "punk" or, as she says "...metal, at times..." Currently, he...

This week, Chad and Jeff are joined by Prude Boys: Caroline Thornbury (bass/lead vocals) and Quennton Thornbury (lead guitar/vocals), to talk about how their glorious and grimy garage-pop band first got started, way back in 2012, over in Ypsilanti. We have flash backs to the Blind Pig, alleyway antics, bluegrass and rockabilly, and quite a bit of tangents that involve tacos, hockey, and Joel Schum...

Chad and Jeff welcome The Brown Thrasher, aka Mazzy Mackarelle, up into the Outer Limits Lounge studio for a chat about the blues, as well as the autoharp! The Brown Thrasher is a British-born Iranian musician and songwriter based in Detroit. His first album Grapefruit Heart was produced by Danny Kroha and should be coming out sometime within the next year, if not sooner! We talk about Mazzy's ori...

Happy Labor Day Weekend, everyone!  We're BACK with more of our conversation with singer/songwriter Craig Brown. THIS time around, we finally get to chat about Craig's forthcoming record, Let's Never Leave This Filthy World by the Craig Brown Band! We also talk quite a bit about Dayton Ohio's Brainiac, changing guitar strings, Motley Crue, the business-end of releasing music these days, and so muc...

Singer/songwriter Craig Brown visits the upstairs of Outer Limits for a laid back conversation with Chad and Jeff about touring, guitar playing, influences, and his previous musical exploits in bands like Terrible Twos, Liquor Store, and the Kelly Jean Caldwell. Craig is the lead singer/guitarist of the Craig Brown Band, and they recently finished their second-full length, Let's Never Leave This F...

The experimental-electronic/indie/art-rock band Summer Like The Season visits the Outer Limits Lounge to talk to Chad and Jeff about the touring life, making cool music videos, sound engineering, drumming, and the sordid history of their MPC. Summer Like The Season is Summer Krinsky, Scott Murphy, and Liam McNitt, and on October 9, their newest record, Aggregator will be available on Young Heavy S...

On this week's episode, Chad and Jeff bravely welcomed two members of The Cult of Spaceskull, including their ostensible leader, The Red Witch, and one of her minions, Cassidy Scum. They share some details about their "blood cult," as well as attempt to initiate one of the podcast's hosts in the middle of the recording, but they also reveal how they are actually from the future, and that they chos...

Singer/songwriter Carmel Liburdi visits the Outer Limits Lounge to talk about karaoke, punk, mentorship, music, espresso, and so much more! Carmel has been singing and recording music since they were in high school and has released several albums over the last decade. On this episode, we have our first-ever live performance on mic, featuring the title track from Carmel's recently released album Li...

Jeff and Chad welcome Ray and Paige, who comprise half of the (newish) post-punk/indie-rock (Christian rock?) band ECK!  Eck is a band that John Szymanski (our podcast landlord) started during the quarantine days, initially with guitarist Ray Thompson. They eventually added drummer Brandon Moss and then steadily recorded their debut album Behold...ECK..., inside the Outer Limits Lounge. Paige Huge...

This week, Chad and Jeff have a candid chat with Jonathan Weier: musician, lyricist/singer, intermittent provocateur, occassional-pot-hole-fixer and all-in-all supporter of the arts, local music, and all the various creative inhabitants of Hamtramck, (and the greater Detroit area). If that run-on sentence was enough to entice you, please press play.  We discuss Weier's previous work, including the...

This week, Jeff and Chad welcome Frank Woodman to the upstairs space of the Outer Limits Lounge. Frank is literally a life-long music fan, with plenty of stories to share..., but he's also a singer and guitarist, having recorded and performed with his family band, Woodman, during the mid-late 2000s, and then eventually joining forces with drummer Brandon Moss to form Caveman & Bam Bam, a prehi...

John Salvage is a Detroit-based singer/songwriter who's been playing music in and out of bands since he was a teenager. He moved here to Detroit from Toledo a little over ten years ago and started performing around the Metro area music scene. In January of 2021, he released a solo album, Coyote Hasten. But Salvage longed to be part of a band again. So, just in time for the pandemic, he "got seriou...

Singer/bassist Jenny Pearson of the Antibuddies visits the Outer Limits Lounge to talk with Chad and Jeff about, among many things, playing the bass. The Antibuddies is a punk rock trio that, along with Jenny, includes Cale on guitar/vocals, and Angie on drums. This is a band that formed during the pandemic, and wound up hosting their album release party HERE at the Outer Limits Lounge. We talk ab...

This week, Chad and Jeff are chatting with singer/songwriter/guitarist & flutist Kelly Jean Caldwell. Kelly is the co-owner of the Outer Limits Lounge and thus one of our podcast landlords, but she also writes, records and performs some amazing music, with the Kelly Jean Caldwell Band, as well as with Aran Ruth in WICCANS and her newest band, Wild Shape.  We talk about a lot of things on today's p...

This week, Chad and Jeff welcome Jon Moshier into the Outer Limits Lounge for a conversation about radio and "the theatre of the MIND!" We talk about his formative moments, his early experimentations, and even some classic anecdotes that take us back to the old Gold Dollar/White Stripes days... We talk about the Electrifying Mojo, Halloween, and our "desert island records."  Always with an ear to...

This week, we're talking to one of our podcast-landlords, John Szymanski, co-owner of The Outer Limits Lounge. John helps oversee the bar and the record label, but we're also talking about the band's he's been in (and continues to be in), including The Hentchmen, SSM, and the newest project, ECK!  featured songs Robot Disco (Not Disco) by Carjack 808 States by Carjack  Littered by Honest to Goodne...

Singer/songwriter/guitarist/WRITER Josh Malerman sits down with Chad and Jeff to talk about many things, including the newest album from The High Strung, Address Unknown. Chad and Josh are bandmates, so this made for a natural choice to be our first episode--but along with that, Chad just helped score a forthcoming documentary about Josh's writing process. We also talk a great deal about the ideal...