After nearly two decades of radio silence, Gnarls Barkley is ready to remind us why we fell in love with them in the first place. According to Rolling Stone, CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse have announced the To Whom It Still Concerns Tour, kicking off November 5 in San Francisco and wrapping November 28 in Chicago, their first live dates since a 2008 Austin City Limits performance.
The tour supports Atlanta, the duo's third studio album, released six months ago after an 18-year gap. This is reportedly their final album together, so this isn't a casual reunion lap, it's a farewell statement.
Gnarls Barkley didn't just vanish; they represent a specific moment in mid-2000s alternative hip-hop when experimental, genre-blending music could still top the charts. Their 2006 debut St. Elsewhere produced "Crazy," a song so culturally inescapable it became a wedding staple. The fact that they've regrouped 18 years later with a full new album signals they had something to say worth waiting for.
What's particularly intriguing is the tour's positioning. CeeLo described it as exploring "universal matters of life, death and everything in between," suggesting this isn't a greatest-hits victory lap. These nine shows are intimate enough to feel special, which is smart for a duo whose appeal was always cult-adjacent rather than mainstream.
The Atlanta homecoming show on November 10 will be the emotional centerpiece, a return home for a project named after their city, after nearly two decades away from the road entirely.
For fans who've been waiting since the Obama administration for new Gnarls Barkley material, this is it. You either get tickets now or wait for the inevitable 2044 reunion announcement.
