Who: Brian Wilson
What: Northside Festival
Where: McCarren Park, North Twelfth St., Lorimer St., and Manhattan Ave. between Bayard St. and Berry St. and Nassau Ave.
When: Sunday, June 12, $35, 8:15
Why: At first, it might be hard to believe that tickets are still available for Brian Wilson’s Northside Festival concert in McCarren Park on June 12, part of his Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary Tour, in which he performs the classic 1966 Beach Boys album. It would seem like a natural for Brooklyn hipsters, especially when it costs a mere thirty-five clams. But as the above video shows, he had a bit of trouble reaching a whole lot of notes on “God Only Knows” in Perth in April. But perhaps that doesn’t really matter, as the chance to see Wilson, joined by former fellow Beach Boys Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin, play such songs as “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder),” “I Know There’s an Answer,” “Here Today,” and “I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times” trumps everything else. Hinds and ROSTAM open up.
Five More to Watch on Sunday at Northside
Castle Black, Paper Box, free, 3:00
Mannequin Pussy, Aviv, $10, 7:00
Surf Rock Is Dead, Knitting Factory, $10, 7:45
Dead Painters, Muchmore’s, 8:45
Woodsman, Baby’s All Right, $10, 11:00