Outer Limited: The Outer Limits Lounge Podcast

Craig Brown - ”Part One: Cheese Bun”

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 Filthy World, which is set to be released before the end of the summer. 

But, this being the summertime, it was considerably hot up there and it wound up frying our laptop a couple different times during the recording. So, we wrapped up THIS chat before we EVEN got the opportunity to ask, in detail, about Craig's new album. So, expect THAT in part two. Nevertheless, we hope you enjoy THIS conversation, in which we talk about cheese buns, rock pants, and leaving your shoes behind while on the road. 

Summer Like the Season - ”Workin’ From Home”

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 Souls: https://youngheavysouls.com/summer-like-the-season  

You can see Summer Like the Season LIVE in Ypsilanti at Ziggy's on Saturday, August 25, with Tanager and Idle Ray!

https://summerliketheseason.com/album/aggregator 

Cult of Spaceskull - ”A Few Feuds (on a Fjord)

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 chose to make and perform music as a means of attracting/boosting membership. 

The Cult of Spaceskull can be seen next Saturday, August 19, at Ride It Sculpture Park, with Killing Pixies, Low Lives in High Places, and Burn Maralago.

 

Music featured in today's episode is by
Carjack
Honest to Goodness
and The Cult of Spaceskull
including a "cover" of "Big Rock Candy Mountain"

Carmel Liburdi - ”You Make Sense To Me”

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 Linwood. 

https://carmelliburdi.bandcamp.com/ 

https://carmelliburdi.com 

 

”Welcome...” - Paige & Ray from ECK!

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 Hugelet joined on bass in time for the band's album release party, more than a year ago. Today, we're talking to Paige and Ray about the origin of ECK, as well as their new/forthcoming (soon-to-be-released) second album. We also force Ray, literally, to reveal his desert island album picks! 

https://www.instagram.com/behold_eck/

https://eckmusic.bandcamp.com/album/behold-eck 

Songs in this episode are by:

Carjack
Honest to Goodness
ECK! 

 

”If all you’ve got is secrets--whaddya got?” - Jonathan Weier

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 indie-band Dead Bodies, a project he played with Adam Cox and Nic Childers. We also discuss Weier's time during the quarantine days of the recent pandemic, when he started up a talk show and an alter ego known as Bahama Jon. 

Listen further for Jon's reverence for the annual Hamtramck Labor Day Festival and his plans for a special birthday party for Hamtramck regular Steve-O! 

Intro/Outro music by Carjack
Interstitial music by Honest to Goodness
featured songs:
"Blast It" by the High Strung
"Mr. Spookhouse" by Dead Bodies

”Keep Bringin’ Em” - Frank Woodman

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 prehistoric-themed punk/garage rock onslaught. 

Frank has been going to shows in-and-around Detroit for 40+ years, and has passed that love of music onto his children (and, inevitably, with time, his grandchildren). We talk about that, but we also talk about the plethora of amazing new bands that have emerged from the Detroit rock scene, Woodman's longtime appreciation of Prince, and a few other odds and ins like ghost peppers, R.E.M. and 70s biker bars. 

 

”Just How Crispy Are you?” - John Salvage of New Twenty Saints

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 serious" and formed a proper band, New Twenty Saints, and started to write and rehearse cautiously, eventually putting out one album, right out of quarantine, Nikita (on Outer Limits Lounge Records). 

When John sat down with Chad and Jeff, New Twenty Saints were just on the cusp of releasing their 2nd proper full length which wound up being self-titled (and also released on Outer Limits Lounge Records!)

This week, we're talking about punk-rock roots, the Toledo Zoo, getting "serious" (by means of moderation), and a couple of really fun tangents about the Replacements and Community. 

To find out more about New Twenty Saints, click here:  https://newtwentysaints.bandcamp.com/album/new-twenty-saints 

***This is also the last episode that we bothered censoring a bit, so...expect adult language in future episodes.