Friday’s Weekly Round-Up – 320
June 16, 2017
June 23, next Friday. We’re getting closer to the official release-date, but we’re already putting the word out  about this exciting Ginsberg re-release from Omnivore Recordings of Allen’s settings of William Blake. Here’s more info (courtesy Aquarium Drunkard) and here’s the official video just put[…]
Surkov on Allen & Tupac (& Jackson Pollock)
March 18, 2014
 It’s not every day you get such a glorious global name-check!                                                       (new Cold War name-dropping/ name-calling?) Vladislav Surkov, the Russian power-broker, eminence grise (and, now, under-the-sanctions-of-the-US  Russian power-broker)     whose rendition of Allen’s “Sunflower Sutra” we featured here last year.                                (Here it is again in[…]
Friday Weekly Round-Up – 129
June 7, 2013
Ginsbergian Zeitgeist – We’re, admittedly, a little late in putting this up – but here‘s (recently-deposed) Russian power-broker/politician, Vladislav Surkov reading Allen Ginsberg (in English!) – “Sunflower Sutra” (the English begins approximately two minutes in) – [thanks too to “Cloudpine” – we should point out, entirely unrelated – for his fantasy Alexander-Rodchenko-inspired[…]