It can be pre-ordered on bandcamp (4 tracks there for free streaming to listen to): https://absurdia.bandcamp.com/album/america-give-a-shit-allen-ginsberg-peter-orlovsky-steven-taylor-live-in-graz-1980-double-lp
($40 for the double LP, 180g violet vinyl + shipping costs)
Released by Unrequited Records (Tate Swindell, San Francisco), the album was produced by Thomas Antonic and mastered by the legendary KRAMER.
Release Date: May 15, 2026
Allen Ginsberg: vocals, percussion
Peter Orlovsky: vocals, banjo, percussion
Steven Taylor: vocals, guitar
Album launch events:
April 28 – Budapest
8pm @ Café Jedermann, Ráday u. 58
facebook.com/jedermann.budapest
Gabor Gyukics hosts an evening with poets Thomas Antonic and Tate Swindell along with musicians Viktor A. Bori (piano) and Quetzal Tirado (horns). They will discuss the record and all three poets will read Ginsberg’s poetry.
April 29 – Vienna
8pm @ Salon, Praterstrasse 17a
salon-praterstrasse.com
Thomas Antonic and Tate Swindell discuss the record and read Ginsberg’s poetry. They will also read their own poetry including from Swindell’s recent book, published in Austria by Edition Baes, SOLAR SCHLAGEN (2025), which was translated by Antonic.
April 30 – Prague
7pm @ Čítárna Unijazzu, Husitská 22
unijazz.ca
Josef Rauvolf hosts an evening with Thomas Antonic and Tate Swindell. They will discuss the record, read Ginsberg’s poetry, and Rauvolf will speak about translating Ginsberg into Czech.
May 4 – Graz
7pm @ Forum Stadtpark, Stadtpark 1
forumstadtpark.at/en/programm/ginsberg-100-jahre
Julia Knass hosts an evening with Thomas Antonic and Tate Swindell. They will discuss the record and read Ginsberg’s poetry. They will be joined by writer Günter Eichberger who was a 21 year-old audience member at this historic reading in Graz.
More to follow…
