Anyone who hears the Crystal Method’s new single “Post Punk” may recognize a familiar voice laced throughout it: “I don’t want to be a punk. I don’t want to belong to any of it. I just want to be.”
It sounds just like Iggy Pop talking about the Stooges in Gimme Danger, Jim Jarmusch’s 2016 documentary about Pop’s former band. And, in fact, that’s exactly what it is — a sample of Pop’s voice propels the group’s first new single in four years.
For Crystal Method co-founder Scott Kirkland,...
It sounds just like Iggy Pop talking about the Stooges in Gimme Danger, Jim Jarmusch’s 2016 documentary about Pop’s former band. And, in fact, that’s exactly what it is — a sample of Pop’s voice propels the group’s first new single in four years.
For Crystal Method co-founder Scott Kirkland,...
- 2/17/2022
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Before electronic music had dozens of chart-topping producers and an entire genre to its name, which we today call Edm, in the mid-90s, a few U.S. acts such as Moby and the Crystal Method broke through with a sound called "electronica." The Crystal Method's 1997 debut album "Vegas" is considered one of the best releases of this period for its trippy, funky, breakbeat heavy sound that yielded classics such as "Busy Child." Seventeen years later, the Los Angeles-based, Las Vegas-bred duo of Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland are still crafting big beats. While electronic music has changed a lot since...
- 1/13/2014
- by Whitney Phaneuf
- Hitfix
With Edm having become a massive mainstream phenomenon, it’s imperative to remember the influence of that exhilarating first wave of trendsetters in the mid to late ’90s. The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Basement Jaxx and the like wildly turned dance music on its head and veritably became the “rock” stars of the post-rave generation. Las Vegas’ Crystal Method were one of America’s most dynamic representatives of that scene, their rousing 1997 breakbeat single “Busy Child” enjoying months of ubiquity. The duo of Scott Kirkland and Ken Jordan are returning now with their first new album in five years in
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- 11/15/2013
- by Ken Scrudato
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In a very rare move for a TV series, Fox’s Almost Human is teaming with a popular music act to serve as the show’s composer.
Las Vegas-based electronic duo The Crystal Method has been contracted to score at least the first season of the sci-fi drama, starting with Sunday’s premiere. “We were absolutely thrilled to be asked to score Almost Human,” Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland said in a statement. “The show is really incredible! Although scoring weekly television is a tremendous challenge we feel that this has been the perfect series for us to pick up.
Las Vegas-based electronic duo The Crystal Method has been contracted to score at least the first season of the sci-fi drama, starting with Sunday’s premiere. “We were absolutely thrilled to be asked to score Almost Human,” Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland said in a statement. “The show is really incredible! Although scoring weekly television is a tremendous challenge we feel that this has been the perfect series for us to pick up.
- 11/15/2013
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
From John Gall, art director for Vintage and Anchor Books, comes word that legendary publisher and film distributor Barney Rosset has passed away at the age of 89. Gall points us to a lively profile by Louisa Thomas that ran in Newsweek in late 2008: "Rosset's publishing house, Grove Press, was a tiny company operating out of the ground floor of Rosset's brownstone when it published an obscure play called Waiting for Godot in 1954. By the time Beckett had won the Nobel Prize in 1969, Grove had become a force that challenged and changed literature and American culture in deep and lasting ways. Its impact is still evident — from the Che Guevara posters adorning college dorms to the canonical status of the house's once controversial authors. Rosset is less well known — but late in his life he is achieving some wider recognition. Last month, a black-tie crowd gave Rosset a standing ovation...
- 2/24/2012
- MUBI
Photo By Zachary Swickey
By Zachary Swickey
Dallas – In the past year electronic dance music has wiggled its way back into the mainstream in a way it hasn’t done since the mid-90’s enthusiasm for hard-banging house acts like the Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers, who have both weathered changing musical trends and are still around today. What better time than now for the inaugural run of a new touring digital music festival?
Case-in-point, the Identity Festival. “Grandfathered” by Edm legends Kaskade and Steve Aoki, who helped pick out the jaw-dropping lineup, Identity has been sweeping the U.S. with rotating slots featuring the likes of White Shadow, Holy Ghost, Datsik, the Disco Biscuits, Rusko, DJ Shadow, Skrillex, Pretty Lights and, of course, Kaskade and Aoki themselves at select spots.
Things were off to a slow start at the Dallas stop on Sunday, considering the temperature was a mild 107 degrees.
By Zachary Swickey
Dallas – In the past year electronic dance music has wiggled its way back into the mainstream in a way it hasn’t done since the mid-90’s enthusiasm for hard-banging house acts like the Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers, who have both weathered changing musical trends and are still around today. What better time than now for the inaugural run of a new touring digital music festival?
Case-in-point, the Identity Festival. “Grandfathered” by Edm legends Kaskade and Steve Aoki, who helped pick out the jaw-dropping lineup, Identity has been sweeping the U.S. with rotating slots featuring the likes of White Shadow, Holy Ghost, Datsik, the Disco Biscuits, Rusko, DJ Shadow, Skrillex, Pretty Lights and, of course, Kaskade and Aoki themselves at select spots.
Things were off to a slow start at the Dallas stop on Sunday, considering the temperature was a mild 107 degrees.
- 8/30/2011
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
The Crystal Method provide the score for X Games 3D : The Movie. Hard-hitting electronic music comes to the big screen this summer! The Crystal METHOD.s music is being used to score the new Espn film X Games 3D: The Movie, due in 3D theatres across the country August 21. The electronic music duo.s various works will be featured throughout the film including original tracks and reworked versions of material from their current album Divided By Night, as well as from their earlier records. Before they set off on the second leg of their .Divided By Night. tour, Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland will attend the film.s premiere in Los Angeles on July 30 and perform a DJ...
- 7/28/2009
- by M&C
- Monsters and Critics
New York — It could be said (and probably has been) that paying to see electronic music performed is like paying to see someone hit play on their iPod. That view, however, would miss out on the sensory assault that a crowd of heaving, sweaty bodies surged and swayed to on Saturday night at New York’s Webster Hall.
In advance of the release of their fourth full album, Divided by Night, electronica veterans The Crystal Method brought their laptops and keyboards and sample pads to town for a pulsing, perspiration-inducing set.
Before either Scott Kirkland or Ken Jordan hit the stage, the show began with twin video monitors playing their newest video, “Drown in the Now”, which features reggae-rapper Matisyahu. It was no surprise then, that he emerged from backstage halfway through the 90 minute set. What was odd, and in fact somewhat baffling, was that TCM played a twelve year old song,...
In advance of the release of their fourth full album, Divided by Night, electronica veterans The Crystal Method brought their laptops and keyboards and sample pads to town for a pulsing, perspiration-inducing set.
Before either Scott Kirkland or Ken Jordan hit the stage, the show began with twin video monitors playing their newest video, “Drown in the Now”, which features reggae-rapper Matisyahu. It was no surprise then, that he emerged from backstage halfway through the 90 minute set. What was odd, and in fact somewhat baffling, was that TCM played a twelve year old song,...
- 5/11/2009
- by Jonathan Goldner
- MTV Newsroom
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