SATURDAY

>> The Crystal Method returns to The Republik

The Crystal Method returns to The Republik with its moody electronic dance music.

With co-founder Ken Jordan retiring last year, Scott Kirkland now performs as The Crystal Method, which got its start in the early 1990s, when Kirkland and Jordan were working together in a Las Vegas grocery store and discovered they had a mutual affinity for electronic music.

Enticed by the L.A. rave scene, they developed their bass-heavy sound in a studio they built at their rented Southern California home, which was conveniently located next to a freeway, where they could stay up all night and make music as loud as they wanted it to be.

The Crystal Method’s blend of rock and disco along with EDM became the perfect complement for other media, with martial arts and sports videogames using its songs. It provided the theme song for the TV series “Bones,” which lasted 12 years, helping keep it in the public eye. Action films like “Charlie’s Angels 2 Full Throttle” and “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life” also featured Crystal Method music.

At the same time, the then-duo created a series of popular albums, with its 1997 debut album “Vegas” going gold in a year and its second album “Tweekend” reaching No. 32 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Two other albums, 2004’s “Legion of Boom” and 2009’s “Divided by Night,” were nominated for Grammys. Kirkland is reportedly working a new album to be released later this year.

SATURDAY

>> Hawaiian entertainers bring their sounds to Sea Life Park

Nathan Aweau, Waipuna, Na Leo Pilimehana and Kimié Miner bring their contemporary and pop tunes to Sea Life Park this Saturday for the third and last concert of the season in the park’s Twilight Concert Series.

Both Na Leo and Aweau have recently released new albums.

Na Leo, pictured, the popular Hawaii trio comprising Lehua Kalima, Angela Morales and Nalani Jenkins, has released “Beautiful Day.” It features remakes of the classics “How Deep Is Your Love” and “What the World Needs Now.” Each member of the trio also contributed original songs for the album, the group’s first since 2009.

Aweau, known for his soulful singing voice and soaring falsetto, won the 2016 Na Hokuhanohano Award Song of the Year with “‘Aina Hanau” a track from his album of the same name, while the album itself won the Island Music Album of the Year Award. As a solo artist, he often appears playing a seven-string bass. His latest album release is “Mau Loa.”

Miner won the Hoku for Contemporary Album of the Year with her eponymous debut album in 2016 and has since had a hit with “Bamboo” from her 2017 album “Proud as the Sun.”

Contemporary Hawaiian trio Waipuna — made up of Kale Hannahs, David Kamakahi and Matthew Sproat — got their start resurrecting and remaking songs from the 1800s.

Visitors can go to the concert only, or get a VIP ticket that includes prime seating and a half-day visit to the park, starting at noon.

SUNDAY

>> Artist Patrick Ching brings awareness to national monument

Patrick Ching, the naturalist and artist whose paintings of Hawaii’s flora and fauna are renowned for their startling realism, used to do research in what is now known in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Encompassing 582,578 square miles of the Pacific Ocean and including a dozen small islands and atolls northwest of the main Hawaiian islands, it is the largest contiguous fully protected conservation area under U.S. control.

Ching is now promoting interest in the monument with a song and art project, which will be featured at the Waikiki Aquarium on Sunday. He’s composed a song about the region to help people learn how to say Papahanaumokuakea and understand what it means (in Hawaiian mythology, it recognizes the union of Earth Mother and Sky Father that gave rise to the island chain).

“If someone heard the song, they’d probably remember if for the rest of their life,” he said. Ching is inviting members of the community to perform their own versions of his song.

At Sunday’s event, he’ll also be promoting the visual arts side of the project.

“People can come up to me and I’ll say ‘What’s your favorite marine animal?’ I’ll sketch it out for them real quick and then we’ll have paints and brushes and people helping them so they can paint their own marine animal.”

Ching was a ranger for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and took many trips to the area back in the 1990s. He described the area as “real life. You feel like you’re Adam and Eve out there. It’s pristine. There’s no fishing. You’re in a place where nature rules. The animals, you kind of realize you’re related to them.”

THURSDAY-JUNE 16

>> Maxi Priest brings reggae groove to Blue Note Hawaii

Reggae/R&B artist Maxi Priest brings his cool, romantic reggae to Blue Note Hawaii for a three-night gig.

A native of London whose parents were from Jamaica, Priest had a breakthrough with his remake of Cat Stevens’ “Wild World” in 1988, which earned him fans in the U.S. Two years later, he had a smash hit with “Close to You” from his album “Bonafide.”

The song reached the charts in 12 countries, going gold in the Austria, Sweden and the U.S.; he was the first British reggae artist to reach No. 1 on the Billboard U.S. Hot 100 chart.

He would more success as a featured artist on “House Call,” a 1991 collaboration with Shabba Ranks, and 1996 release “That Girl,” with Shaggy.

Though Priest turned away from his smooth, “lovers rock” sound for a while in the 2000s, it made him a favorite here on the islands. He headlined an Aloha Stadium reggae concert in 2006 and a year later toured with UB40.

In 2014, he returned to his original sound with “Easy to Love,” which the music website Allmusic.com called “the kind of reggae-pop favored by the reggae faithful.” It reached No. 2 on the Billboard Top Reggae Albums charts.