Make Music NY

NYC's free, all ages, DIY punk festival Punk Island is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, better known as its Quincañera.

MMNY got word that they are no longer receiving an expected funding grant of $20,000, and they're about $10,000 shy of their goal.

Performances include Philip Glass, armies of accordions, the sound of buildings, and more.

It's been a while but Brooklyn's The Hairs are back in back in action. There are new releases in the works but for now they've just shared new song "Homeboyzzz," a strummy little number that asks "What's it like to be forgotten...

Make Music NY is back for an ninth year, celebrating the spirit of live music all over NYC on Sunday, June 21. In addition to many acts playing on street-corners, parks and other public locations, as usual, there are a number of special events, all of which are free: Street Studios: Twelve small mobile recording studios will appear on sidewalks throughout NYC, each run by a team of two DJ-engineers...

Make Music New York's Punk Island returns for its eighth year on June 21st, with nearly 100 punk bands, from as far away as the Philippines to as near as the East Village, all gathering on a Staten Island pier - just steps away from the Ferry Terminal -- for a day-long punk experience...

Make Music New York is back, bringing some 1300 free live music performances (sometimes participatory) to public spaces all over the Five Boroughs...

Caveman @ Webster Hall (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Jacuzzi Boys @ Mercury Lounge, 2011 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows...

Now in its seventh year, Make Music New York, "the largest music event ever to grace Gotham" (Metro New York), is a unique festival of free concerts in public spaces throughout the five boroughs of New York City, all on June 21st, the first day of summer...

artist rendering of Yoko Ono Imagine PeaceOn December 21st, come together and sing John Lennon's "Imagine" at the very moment Yoko Ono's new video IMAGINE PEACE lights up sixteen Times Square billboards at 11:57pm...