Dallas: The Crystal Method at Trees

The Crystal Method, one of the acts most responsible for bringing big beat electronic music into the American mainstream, plays Trees in Dallas on September 5, with tickets starting at $46.

Formed in Los Angeles in 1993 by Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland, The Crystal Method broke through with the 1997 album “Vegas,” whose tracks “Busy Child” and “Keep Hope Alive” became ubiquitous in film trailers, commercials, and video games throughout the late ’90s and 2000s. The duo helped define the big beat sound alongside acts like The Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim, and their music has soundtracked everything from action movies to sports broadcasts, making them one of electronic music’s most recognizable crossover acts across multiple decades of pop culture.

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Trees has been a fixture of Dallas’s Deep Ellum music scene since the late 1980s, one of the neighborhood’s original rock clubs and a stage that has hosted acts across punk, metal, alternative, and electronic music for decades. The mid-size room retains the gritty, no-frills character that made Deep Ellum a magnet for touring bands long before the neighborhood’s more recent redevelopment, and it remains one of Dallas’s most reliable venues for genre-spanning club shows. Fans can find more on the venue’s history at Trees’ own page on Texas Music Map.

Decades after “Vegas,” The Crystal Method continues to tour behind a catalog that helped bridge underground rave culture and mainstream rock and pop audiences, and their live sets remain built around the same driving, sample-heavy production that made them festival mainstays. The duo has also long championed collaborations with rock vocalists, further cementing their crossover appeal to fans well outside the traditional electronic music scene.

Doors open at 7 PM. Trees’ close quarters make for an immersive, bass-heavy show, and Deep Ellum’s nearby bars offer an easy spot to continue the night after the set wraps, with several late-night food options within a short walk of the venue.