shaun lopez

††† (Crosses) have released two new songs, “Initiation” and “Protection.” The former is accompanied by a music video. The singles and visual mark the duo’s first release in 2022, as well as their first original music since 2014. Crosses is the project of Deftones‘ Chino Moreno and multi-hyphenate musician Shaun Lopez. The two formed the […]

Side projects have the special ability to give artists the chance to express themselves in whatever manner they choose without snobby genre lords or the (sometimes self-imposed) shackles of their previous works confining their sonic decisions. Sometimes these new bands go in an intentionally more mainstream direction, while other times the word “commercial” is never […]

(Photo: Tyler William Parker) It didn’t receive a whole lot of fanfare when it was released on August 2, but there it was for the internet to enjoy: †, a five-track mini-LP from CROSSES, a new band starring Far guitarist Shaun Lopez, Deftones frontman Chino Moreno and producer Chuck Doom. Unlike the other aspects of […]