Punk Island, on Governors Island, is one of MMNY’s annual signature events: “a one-day experiment that turns the stately island into a punk rockers’ paradise” (NY Times). No one lives on the island, so the regular sound limits don’t apply — bands can play as loud as they want!

This year, Make Music New York falls on Monday, June 21st, a day that Governors Island is closed to the public.

So we’ve decided to hold Punk Island on Sunday, June 20th, starting at 10am and going until 2am on June 21st at the new Water Taxi Beach stage, where punk headliners will kick off the rest of Make Music New York in hardcore style!

As always, Punk Island shows are free — but to stay for the headlining acts after 6pm, you’ll need a $15 ferry ticket to get back in the evening. Tickets may be purchased from Slug at slug1369@yahoo.com.

This year’s astonishing lineup features over 100 bands on stages throughout the island.

CONFIRMED PUNK ISLAND BANDS: (A)TRUTH, Abserdo, All Rise, All Torn Up!, Angry & Broke, Angry Youth, Antispetic, Ashers (Mark Unseen’s new band), Assrash, Bad Luck 13, Battle Master, Betty Sue Aside, Blackout Shoppers, Blanks 77, Bloodbeat, Bloody Muffs , Broken, Bucket Flush, Buerger Wuerger, Burning Heads, Burning Streets, Bust It!, Captain Ronzo & The Thirsty Pirates, Caught in a Trap, Code Orange Kids, Combat Crisis, Common Enemy, Copyright Chaos, Crash Fist Fight, Cutthroat Society, Dead Aces, Dealin’ With It, Disaster Strikes, DOA, Dog That Bites Everyone, Drawback, Dude Man Bro, Endangered Feces, Factor X, Feet First, First Strike, Foo’s Stage, Fools on Sunday, Furiousity, Hessian, Hub City Stompers, Iconicide, Infernal Stronghold, Jenkem, Jonee Earthquake Band, JRS, Lethal Aggression, Live Not On Evil, Long Drop, Mary Magdalan, Mean Streets, Mental Abuse, Midnight, Mung Choke, Murder Majesty, Nancy and 2 Meteors, Negative Approach, No Abuse, No Redeeming Social Value, Nothing But Enemies/SCFC, NunSlaughter, Olde York, Oxblood, Percocettes (Percs), Pissant, Point Blank, Proles Blood, Psycho, Razors In The Night, Refuse Resist, Rentokill, Revilers, Seizure Crypt, Sewage, Sexual Suicide, She Likes Todd, Shelter Shock, Simplistic Genocide, Skum City, SpEd, Star Fucking Hipsters, Straphangers, Stress Bomb, Team Spider, The Blame, The Choices, The Clefts, The Dwarves, The Edukators, The Havnotz, The Misanthropes, The Pogo, The Rayguns, The Revilers, The Snails, The Underclassed, The Unpatriotics, Theatre Zombies, To Be Hated, Tough Luck, Trauma Team 666, Turbo AC’s, UFO VCR, Violent Society, Wifebeater, Wombat in Combat, Y69, Yo! Scunt, Zero Content

Want to join Punk Island with your band? No more stage space remains, but if you can bring your own generators, backline and equipment, it is still possible to create your own stage: email Slug at slug1369@yahoo.com for details.