June 19th was the date of the fourth annual Punk Island festival, a free concert arranged in conjunction with Make Music NYC. For the fourth year in a row music fans crammed onto a ferry in lower Manhattan, trying to smuggle beer and pot past security guards for the five minute boat ride across the water to Governors Island, a former military installation now made into park land to watch various acts, local and otherwise, play on the makeshift dirt stages.

Organizationally things were...