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01/06/2025

https://vimeo.com/1044217790

Follow up to 2006's Travels In Intertextuality: the autopoetic identity of remix culture, this piece was composed on November 28, 2008 using a torrent that…

11/03/2024

Podspeed Terminal Ave! We wish you all the best in your future endeavours 🙄

OLD ADVENTURES IN LO-FI... Next to a small little cobblestone street on the edge of Vancouver's Gastown used to be a bunch of rehearsal spaces for local bands, with all the aesthetics, trappings, an

10/12/2024

https://youtu.be/vYa0H6yU9TU

This remix of songs by legendary cult band Masters of Reality came about back in 2007 while doing the thing at SFU's design school after had just returned fr...

08/17/2024

https://youtu.be/gBy28jEv0m4

details forthcoming but this work relates to a PhD dissertation on applied uses cases of Artificial Intelligence in the creation of art, design, personas, an...

06/21/2024

And that solves that wicked problem. Writeup to follow but nobody reads anything anymore anyway! Better to wait for the podcast version...

I'm sure I'll have something to say about this... stay tuned!

06/18/2024

Okay that's now FOUR St. Vincent songs in the "suite" with this one she did a long while ago with the Talking Heads guy.... but wait a minute.. THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL HOUSE!!! Should probably look into that 😳😆

06/11/2024

I think YouTube will allow it•... for now! Anyway, the end of the Podstream Studios era will exit through this giftshop of a song reinterpretation, George Crooney-style! 🎤

(*copyright dispute pending)

details to follow

05/16/2024

All vocals recorded between May 3rd and May 14th, 2024, at Podstream Studios in Vancouver BC

1. Someone New (Hozier song 1)
2. Drink To Me Thine Eyes (Dean Martin)
3. You Make Me Feel So Young (Frank Sinatra)
4. oh baby (LCD Soundsystem, song 1)
5. Rain (The Cult, song 1)
6. Nirvana (The Cult, song 2)
7. Love (The Cult, song 3)
8. Talk (Hozier, song 2)
9. It Will Come Back (Hozier, song 3)
10. Soda Jerk Fountain (Swell, from the album “…well?”)
11. New York, I Love You (LCD Soundsystem, song 2)
12. Thank You, Good Evening (Swell, from the album “…well?”
13. Us V Them (LCD Soundsystem, song 3)

All vocals recorded between May 3rd and May 14th, 2024, at Podstream Studios in Vancouver BC 1. Someone New (Hozier song 1) 2. Drink To Me Thine Eyes (Dean Martin) 3. You Make Me Feel So Young (Frank

03/17/2024

Top o' the morning!☘️ Well... more an an Irish morning, being that it's just past o'noon! So I did this up for the Flynn fam...

https://soundcloud.com/podstream/george-crooney-vs-sally-maclennane-march-17-2024

We'll see how long it stays up! Luck of the Irish notwithstanding

OLD ADVENTURES IN LO-FI... Next to a small little cobblestone street on the edge of Vancouver's Gastown used to be a bunch of rehearsal spaces for local bands, with all the aesthetics, trappings, an

02/23/2024

As both a rock singer and crooner, I of course have many influence, but none have been bigger than Mark Lanegan... who sadly passed on to Fielder's Green two years ago, along with his perfect storm of vocal chords :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPERDbYE5OM

However, influences can also inspire, and when Putin invade Ukraine the next day, followed by the late Anthony Bourdain's buddy José Andrés heading over to Kyiv to feed refugees through his World Central Kitchen charity, it gave me an idea for a tribute/fundraiser based around Lanegan's extensive genre-crossing catalogue. At the time, I was proposing something food truck related + music for late June to coincide with Bourdain's birthday. As with most things that emanate from this ol' overcharged thinkin' brain, the timing wasn't quite right and the support - particularly from out east in Ottawa where it should've had the support - wasn't really there.

But there are lots of lessons wherever you want to find them, and Lanegan's songs have plenty of them to offer... he was a baseball nut like me, and in the last two years I've learned how to croon by approaching singers and songs like pitch selection over 9-innings. But that's a different side of the game as some lessons involve hitting and knowing when to square up on a fastball in the zone and when to wait just long enough on a hanging curve.

So to allude to a Sinatra song about clowns made famous in a Simpsons episode (!), we'll see about "losing my timing, this late in my career"...

Thank you Mark Lanegan 1964-2022(Aired on November 2017; Bourdain dines with singer-songwriter Mark Lanegan, and the last part of the episode shows various o...

02/09/2024

Live at The Flamingo Room for your Valentine's entertainment...Next Wednesday from 8pm to 11pm or whatever! A.I. George will NOT be performing, just the REAL George Crooney! :)

Here's what he's singing...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4RHn0ikGEbDtHsldF22uEa?si=45ba1f7a779e43f4

12/29/2023

Okay River Rats! It's time for a casino croon! I'm going to run through a couple sets of Rat Pack songs at my local bar in CR that I'll be performing on Bowen Island for NYE. It's a kinda test of the enclosed patio area just to see how it sounds, as well as for a needed run through of some new material I've not sung live before. FREE ENTERTAINMENT on friday night in Campbell River with none other than The Perfect Storm himself... George Crooney!!! 🎤😁 What else ya got going on? :)

So come on down to Match Pub at the Chances Casino downtown at St. Annes, Friday December 29... 6 to 8pm. And if making a reservation for the limited seating, make sure to ask for the "patio area"! call (250) 830-0082 for seats.

12/02/2023

So here's where we left off LAST December. The saga continues, with some Dino and some vino...

https://www.soundtrap.com/signup?ref=be5a249aa4c97ac444ecdae4bb880ee2

04/17/2022

After singing a version of the famous saloon song "Angel Eyes" at an Italian supper club in Las Vegas on Good Friday 2022, Podstream crooner and co-founder Joel Flynn had an idea that turned into another idea, then another tangent off of that previous idea. They all related to the use of KaraFun, and specifically, the backing tracks in the KaraFun app that are available at karaoke-version.com... and they all fed into the Soundtrap online audio workstation platform (shown in the image). Pulling these ideas and building blocks seemed to work out surprisingly well :)

And now there's a duet of Lady Ella Fitzgerald and Ol' Frankie Blue Eyes that isn't really them, but sets up yet ANOTHER idea around digital media and remixes/mashups that goes back to Flynn's first masters thesis in 2006! There's definitely a publishable paper out of this work, if not some sort of non-fungible token or whatever they're called!

https://www.soundtrap.com/signup?ref=be5a249aa4c97ac444ecdae4bb880ee2 After singing a version of the famous saloon song "Angel Eyes" at an Italian supper club in Las Vegas on Good Friday 2022, Podst

02/22/2022

RIP Mark Lanegan. Now you can go join your ghostly voice on the other side…

https://vimeo.com/25850761

02/15/2022

https://youtu.be/8sdMV9TzMkc

A vivid portrait of a '70s record that is still as fresh and memorable today as when it was released more than two decades ago. Pioneering pop/jazz band Stee...