Outer Limited: The Outer Limits Lounge Podcast

This week, Chad and Jeff are interviewing J. Navarro! And... since our laptop crashed, we actually recorded the whole thing on a 4-track reel-to-reel, which feels appropriately punk rock for such a guest. J., Jay, or Jason Navarro has been in the Suicide Machines for more than 30 years and they're still highly active to this day--they literally just released a new single, which you can sample in this episode! We also discuss new bands like The Boreouts, who blend garage punk and soul, and The Traitors, a ska/punk band in which Navarro is involved with Eric Abbey (of Detroit Riddim Crew). All that, and so much more, with legends and lore! Tune in! We recorded this episode back in late-late March Featured tracks: The Boreouts - TightropeThe Suicide Machines - Never Go QuietlyJ. Navarro & the Traitors - One HandThe Suicide Machines - S.O.S. J. Navarro & the Traitors - StreetlightsThe Boreouts - Do Your Scam

This week, Chad and Jeff are chatting with the psychedelic/stoner-rock power trio known as Carbon Decoy, just in time for the release of their 2nd full-length album, Crush The Sun! Casey Rowe, Jared Jordan, and Earl Mudd are hanging out and talking about their roots, from the rural climes near Jackson, MI, to memorable shows performed around the Metro region, as well as exuberant remarks upon how the local music scene welcomed them with relatively and disarmingly open arms. Tune in!

This week, we've got an episode where Chad and Jeff chat with Joey and Tex, the duo comprising the lo-fi garage-rock group known as Ménage Detroit! Now, there are more than a few references to 4/20, the infamous stoner date of Gregorian Calendar, since that's the literal day that we recorded this episode! We hear the origin story of Joey and Tex as a couple, as collaborators, and some of their recent adventures, along with some of Joey's other projects, like The Hand and Toeheads! Tune in! Oh, and we also talk about vampires, milk, mono-recording, and more!

Melody Baetens, also known as Melody Malosh, is a dining and entertainment reporter for The Detroit News, where she has worked for over 20 years, earning the position of Restaurant Critic in 2019. Along the way, and particularly throughout the 2010s, Melody diligently covered the local music scene, bringing indie and underground bands to the pages of the Detroit News. Before that, though, she was in several noteworthy bands, including The Sirens, Betty Cooper, and many more--not to mention her long stint running Small's here in Hamtramck! Tune in!

This week, Jeff and Chad chat with singer-songwriter-guitarist Aran Ruth, covering a wide variety of psychedelic-folk lore and charting how her diverse musical influences forged her path toward eventually forming WICCANS with Kelly Jean Caldwell. We discuss the group's forthcoming third and final record, as well as a bit about Infinity People. You can see Aran Ruth perform live next SATURDAY, June 7, at Outer Limits Lounge!

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 exhibition curator, DJ, and event presenter and host. Warner’s recent radio shows have been broadcast on artist-centric Los Angeles broadcaster dublab. Currently, as stated, she's hosting a new iteration of Alternate Take, starting back in early February of this year. Cohost, Jeff Milo, is now a colleague of hers, and there's a lot of discussion around the resurgance of music programming on WDET, started by new programming director Adam Fox. We also talk about, just, the skill of interviewing, the fundamentals of art journalism, and the fun of curating music! https://wdet.org/shows/alternate-take/

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 her film work! Drallos performs TOMORROW at the LOVING TOUCH for the For The Periods benefit! The Rosy Crucifixion is a short film written and directed by Chloe Drallos, released in October 2024.Originally sharing its title with the penultimate track on Zilched’s album Earthly Delights, the film has been re-edited into a full-length music video for the single. https://youtu.be/tPoJe1R7sQY?si=Ro6EW2W3Zqdtd0zq

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!