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Monster Island Basement

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128 River St. Brooklyn, NY 11211

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The trek to Monster Island, past abandoned factories and construction sites, is a little unnerving, but eventually you'll turn the corner on River Street and find a scene of people dressed all silly and chatting it up in front of a wall of Technicolor graffiti. Everything is going to be okay; Monster Island is part of the Todd P canon of DIY venues. Thus, you are guaranteed a meticulously curated cast of musicians as scuzzy and endearingly punk-rock as Monster Island's own feedback-incubating basement space.







  • 2011 | Best Requiem for a DIY Venue

    Allow us a moment of silence for a victim of soulless Williamsburg gentrification: the dearly departed Monster Island. A former spice factory that housed Oneida's soundproof jam-factory production space, the Ocropolis, and spent the past seven years as a de facto artists' colony, the Kent Avenue creative hive deservedly had more send-offs than that other monster-island catastrophe, Lost: an end-of-summer Saturday-afternoon block party; a Sunday "paint pour," when friends of the project space... More »

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