Two of electronic music’s most enduring architects are sharing a stage in Rochester, and the bill alone tells you what kind of night this is. Paul Oakenfold — the British trance and progressive-house pioneer who turned DJ sets into events — and big-beat duo The Crystal Method bring their co-headlining United Champions Tour to Anthology on Friday, June 26, 2026, at 8:00 PM.
About Paul Oakenfold
Every conversation about the origins of global DJ culture eventually circles back to Oakenfold. He was voted #1 on DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll twice, back-to-back in 1998 and 1999, at the moment dance music was breaking worldwide. In 2003, Queen Elizabeth II recognized him as a “Pioneer of the Nation” for his contributions to the genre. And he has a habit of dragging the music somewhere it has never been — he was the first DJ to play a set at Stonehenge, and has performed at the Great Wall of China and Mount Everest base camp.
He also co-founded Perfecto Records, the label and sound that defined a generation of trance. He hasn’t slowed down: his single “Bullet In The Gun” with Sneijder landed on Perfecto Fluoro in April 2026, followed by “RAMsterdam” with Daxson and RAM in May. Both are worth a spin before Friday.
About The Crystal Method
Scott Kirkland and Ken Jordan founded The Crystal Method in Las Vegas in 1993 and helped drag big beat into the American mainstream. Their 1997 debut Vegas went platinum and remains one of the best-selling electronic albums ever made by an American act. The duo earned GRAMMY nominations for Legion of Boom and again for Divided by Night in the Best Dance/Electronic Album category. After Jordan stepped away in 2017, Kirkland has carried the project forward, most recently with the seventh studio album The Trip Out. Live, they’ve logged sets at EDC, Lollapalooza, and Ultra Miami — this is a road-tested act that knows how to work a room.
About Anthology
Anthology sits at 336 East Avenue in Rochester, a club that consistently books well above its weight class. It’s the right kind of room for a bill like this — close enough to the stage that you’ll feel the low end on every drop, with the dance-floor energy a tour like United Champions is built around.
Tickets
Tickets for Paul Oakenfold and The Crystal Method at Anthology are on sale now, with listings starting in the mid-$40s. Grab tickets here and lock in your Friday night before this one fills up.