Morrissey, Patti Smith, Interpol, Sex Pistols and generations of punk descend on Brooklyn September 26 as Woodstock Cannabis joins the festival and High Times gets in on the action.
CBGB and Woodstock came out of very different versions of American counterculture. One grew from a cramped Bowery club where punk bands learned how loud they could get. The other became shorthand for three days of music, mud, psychedelia, and the unruly idealism of the late 1960s.
More than half a century later, both names are still finding ways to make noise.
The CBGB Festival returns to Under the K Bridge Park in Brooklyn on September 26, with a lineup that includes Morrissey, Patti Smith, Interpol, Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter, Bikini Kill, Mannequin Pussy, Sleater-Kinney and Fred Armisen’s Ramones tribute band The Return of Jackie & Judy, Buzzcocks, Circle Jerks, Agnostic Front, and a new generation of bands carrying punk forward.
This year, cannabis is part of the mix too. You can buy tickets here.
Woodstock Meets the Bowery
Woodstock Cannabis has joined the 2026 CBGB Festival as a sponsor, with High Times serving as a media partner around the event.
The pairing is easy enough to understand historically. Cannabis has moved through American music culture for generations, while Woodstock and CBGB each became symbols for scenes that valued independence, experimentation, and a certain suspicion of whatever the mainstream was selling.
But nostalgia alone only gets you so far.
“The legacy of Woodstock has always been about bringing all genres of music together under the banner of peace and love,” says Martin Mills, general manager of Woodstock Cannabis. “Music remains a force for change and for questioning authority—including the long and unjust prohibition of cannabis.”
CBGB came out of a different moment. The original club became an early home to the …
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