Feature

Some Like It Rock

Jackson Browne
Prospect Park Bandshell; July 21; $45 to $100
Browne, who could have called it a career after writing "These Days" and still gone down in history, will play one of Celebrate Brooklyn!'s five benefit shows.

Ginuwine
SummerStage, Rumsey Playfield; July 26; free
Hey, guess who's still around! Okay, so the nineties R&B loverman might not be "of the moment" — "Pony" is timeless.

Burning Spear
Prospect Park Bandshell; July 30; free
Celebrate Brooklyn! will see SummerStage's Lee "Scratch" Perry and raise them a Burning Spear, arguably the only other artist alive that can match Perry's reggae pedigree.

AC/DC
Giants Stadium; July 31; $89.50
The rock giants had a surprise latter-day smash with last year's Black Ice, thanks to an exclusive Wal-Mart retail deal and if-it-ain't-broke jams like "Rock 'N' Roll Train," "She Likes Rock 'N' Roll," and "Rocking All the Way." (Seriously.) Find out for yourself why Angus Young's wild-man shtick is timeless.

All Points West
Liberty State Park; July 31–August 2; $89 for one-day passes/$199 for three-day passes
The summer's big-dog event has a hit (Beastie Boys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine) and miss (Coldplay?) lineup. Either way, it's good to see a New York–area music festival coming back for a second year.

AUGUST

M. Ward
SummerStage, Rumsey Playfield; August 1; free
The careful singer-songwriter plays behind Hold Time, his New York-approved sixth studio album.

Dean & Britta
Prospect Park Bandshell; August 1; free
The duo, formerly of Luna, will perform scores commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum to accompany the artist's rarely seen short films.

Depeche Mode
Madison Square Garden; August 3–4; $49.50 to $129.50
Depeche Mode's latest, Sounds of the Universe, just came out; its lead single, "Wrong," proves they haven't lost a step.

Big Daddy Kane
Prospect Park Bandshell; August 8; free
Warm it up, Kane! The Juice Crew luminary will hit the stage with a live band following a screening of documentary BDK: The Big Daddy Kane Story.

Boyz Noise
SummerStage, Rumsey Playfield; August 8; free
This year, SummerStage's token dance party features Berlin producer Alexander Ridha, a.k.a. Boyz Noise. Pretty hip pick — that Youth Outreach Committee is working!

Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal
Prospect Park Bandshell; August 12; $39.75 to $125.25
Another Celebrate Brooklyn! benefit show, this one with a neat little cross-genre co-legends bill.

Animal Collective
Prospect Park Bandshell; August 14–15; $30
All of the instant "best album of the year" proclamations for Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion would have been really ridiculous ... if they weren't arguably still true. "My Girls" should sound pretty epic ringing throughout Prospect Park.