Keep on rockin’

These bands will keep you busy all weekend and then some

The San Diego reggae/hip-hop/punk band makes one of its frequent Hawaii visits this weekend in support of a just-released album, "Closer to the Sun."

Slightly Stoopid Place: Pipeline Cafe, 805 Pohukaina St. Time: 7 p.m. Friday Tickets: $17 Call: 589-1999 Hatebreed With local bands Crucible and Dagra: Place: Pipeline Cafe, 805 Pohukaina St. Time: 7:30 p.m. May 3 Tickets: $22 Call: 589-1999 Devil Doll With Black Square, Suspicious Minds and Temporary Lovers: 8 p.m. Friday: Anna Bannana's, 2440 S. Beretania St. 8 p.m. Saturday: DETOX, 1192 Alakea St., with Upstanding Youth, the Hell Caminos and Explore Admission: $10, all ages Info: unitycrayons.com

"It's all about the grassroots style. You've got to tough it out, got to get your hands dirty touring and making music," Miles Doughty, one the group's front men, explains in a statement. "We have 100 percent creative control of what we do, and we've worked way too hard to have other people telling us how to do it. It's working, so we don't feel we need to change."

The album's first single, "Somebody," is a blues romp peppered with a timely sample of the late ODB from the Wu Tang Clan's "36 Chambers." Fans (aka "Stoopidheads") should also enjoy the band's latest anthems to da pakalolo, "This Joint" and "Fat Spliffs," and reggae legend and recent isle visitor Barrington Levy appears on "See It No Other Way."

The group began in 1995 when Doughty and Kyle McDonald were discovered by the late Sublime vocalist Bradley Nowell, who signed them to his Skunk Records label.

A "Live in San Diego" DVD is due in late June, featuring performances over the '05 Thanksgiving weekend at House of Blues, along with a companion two-CD set, "Winter Tour '05-'06."

Since their last visit here in late '02, these hard-core heroes from Connecticut have released "The Rise of Brutality." A new album, "Supremacy," is due in August.

The band is made up of singer Jamey Jasta, Sean Martin on guitar, bassist Chris Beattie and Matt Byrne behind the drum kit. Hatebreed should be primed and ready to tear down the house, coming off a successful Australian tour.

Local punk promoters Unity Crayons brings in California's self-described "Queen of Rockabilly," Colleen Duffy, who created her sultry alter ego with the mission of putting the sex back in rock 'n' roll.

Duffy was a founder of the indie Hep Cat Records, devoted to making European rockabilly and "psychobilly" (same music with a punk attitude) more accessible in the United States. Her tattooed persona fits right in with the indie-minded burlesque scene in her home base of Los Angeles.

Duffy should also find an ally in our local psychobilly band, the Hell Caminos, who will be part of the Saturday lineup at the downtown Alakea Street club. Question is, will Devil Doll end up seducing you with her wily musical ways?