Entering its eighth year, MKE Punk Fest as quietly grown from one or two glorified local shows to become a full-fledged festival. Last year, the event made the move from spring to late summer, and will now include a total of four shows in two venues over the course of four days in August.
MKE Punk Fest will start at Quarters on August 23 and will continue on until an August 26 finale (also at Quarters). Those shows will bookend a pair of shows at The Local in Walker’s Point on August 24 and August 25. Before it’s all over, close to 50 bands, solo artists, and comedians will perform.
Individual show prices range from $5-8. Four-show weekend passes are just $12. Here’s who’s performing:
Thursday, August 23 – 7:30 p.m. (Quarters Rock ‘N’ Roll Palace) – 21+
Music
The Red Flags (Madison)
Slaughter Party (Kenosha)
Faster, Faster, Faster (Waukesha)
Spanish Bird Droppings
Dirtbike
Comedy
Tyler Menz (host)
Raegan Niemela
Elijah Holbrook
Drew Flagge
Friday, August 24 – 7 p.m. (The Local) – 21+
Main Stage
Blackcat Manor (Illinois)
40oz Fist (Force 5 Records)
Vexnation
Faux Fiction
Sufferhead
Side Stage
Rhetoric Vendetta (Lake Geneva)
Court Caust (Fond du Lac)
Cantstandya (Fond du Lac)
Dorthy’s Worst (Sheboygan)
Acoustic Stage
Old Wolves (Genoa City)
Noah Green (Madison)
Victims Of Symmetry
Grape Shitz
A Smidge Of Evil
Saturday, August 25 – 6 p.m. (The Local) – 21+
Main Stage
Dirty Reggae Punx (Minnesota)
Some Kind Of Nightmare (California)
Acid Teeth (Washinton)
Misunderstood (Indiana)
Peach Vomit (Illinois)
Side Stage
Size 5’s
Beaker
The Meatcurtains
Billy Dreamer
Acoustic Stage
Mike Defendant & Katrina Jo (Ohio)
No Horse (Illinois)
The Spite Brothers
Jeff Callesen
Pax
First Cousin Once Removed
Sunday, August 26 – 6:30 p.m. (Quarters Rock ‘N’ Roll Palace) – 21+
Music
No Recess (Nirvana tribute)
Moth Light
Atheists & Airplanes
Hi/Jack
Gas Station Sushi
Comedy
Tyler Menz (host)
Dana Ehrman
Gary Zajackowski
Jeff Spankowski
William O’Neill III