Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland, aka The Crystal Method, have managed – through sheer brute force and determination, combined with some stonking tunes – to infiltrate the world of underground electronic ...

Peering into a camera from a bedroom in his Costa Rica home, Ken Jordan’s got grocery stores on the mind. “Are they still called Smith’s Food King?” he wonders, carpooling down memory lane with buddy ...

Crystal Method formed in a grocery store. It was the early 1990s, and Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland both had more than a casual interest in music. Kirkland’s interest stemmed from the music that had ...

During their mid-’90s ascent, the Crystal Method were referred to as America’s answer to the Chemical Brothers. A dance-based electronic duo with a definite rock-band feel, the comparison seemed ...

Since the early 90s, Las Vegas duo Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland, in their guise as The Crystal Method, have stood alongside acts like The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Aphex Twin, The Prodigy, The ...

As I drove through downtown Burlington on my way to work and passed the latest generation of college students, I saw the signs: The pants are getting baggier again. There are knee socks and chokers.

There are a handful of electronic artists that early consumers credit with taking the music out of the underground and into the mainstream. These movers and shakers include The Prodigy, The Chemical ...

In 1989, Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland met while working at a Smith’s in southeast Las Vegas. The young men shared a passion for techno, and together they began playing DJ sets of those electronic ...

An overabundance of collaborations can sometimes fracture the cohesion of a band’s sound. The base fissures, the framework wobbles, and before you know it the weight of all those competing voices ...

Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland from the dance-based electronic outfit Crystal Method, slip into Metropolis. Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland from the dance-based electronic outfit Crystal Method, slip ...