Outer Limited: The Outer Limits Lounge Podcast

Liz Warner - Alternate Take(s) & Interview Tabs

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/ 

 

Starlings - "Try To Have A Good Time"

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! 

Chloe Drallos - The Rosy Crucifixion

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 

 

Eric Allen from Loose Koozies

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://loosekoozies.bandcamp.com/ 

Featured at the end of the episode is the lead single from Passing Through You, "Wobbly Wheels." 

Kate Derringer - "Find Your People"

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! 

 

Rose St. Germaine - "You'll Always Love Me"

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 "cube" of Stroh's and declared herself to be the podcast's #1 fan <3 

Connor Dodson: "If I get a van, I'll know I've made it!"

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!

Zem - "You Shouldn't Cross Me (or) I'll Put You In My Soup"

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 also talk quite a bit about Halloween, coffee, soup, basements, and who knows what else! Tune in!  https://zemdetroit.bandcamp.com/album/demos