Gnarls Barkley Announces First Concert Tour in 18 Years, Bringing Ceelo Green and Danger Mouse to Nine North American Dates Behind New Album Atlanta

NEW YORK, NY — Gnarls Barkley is heading back to the stage for the first time in 18 years, booking a nine-show North American tour that will send the duo through some of the biggest music cities in the United States and Canada.

The run arrives as fans reconnect with the pair behind “Crazy,” the 2006 Grammy-winning smash that made singer CeeLo Green and producer Danger Mouse one of the most recognizable collaborations of the 2000s. Their return is tied to a new album, “Atlanta,” which the duo recently released after years apart.

Tickets for the “To Whom It Still Concerns Tour” go on sale Thursday, Sept. 24, at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster, with resale options also expected on StubHub and Vivid Seats.

A short tour built around major North American music markets

The schedule is compact but wide-ranging, with stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Detroit, Boston, Silver Spring, Toronto, New York and Chicago. For a group that has not toured in nearly two decades, the itinerary gives fans in multiple regions a chance to see the duo in relatively intimate venues rather than arenas.

The dates begin Nov. 5 at The Masonic in San Francisco and wrap Nov. 28 at House of Blues in Chicago. Along the way, the band will play The Wiltern in Los Angeles, Coca-Cola Roxy in Atlanta, The Fillmore Detroit, Citizens House of Blues in Boston, The Fillmore Silver Spring, HISTORY in Toronto and Irving Plaza in New York.

That mix of venues fits Gnarls Barkley’s history as a crossover act that never belonged to one lane. The group’s work has always sat between alternative pop-rock and soul, and this tour gives that blend a live setting again.

Why the comeback matters to fans of Crazy and The Odd Couple

For many listeners, Gnarls Barkley remains a single, indelible moment in mid-2000s pop culture, powered by “Crazy,” a song that climbed to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and helped define the sound of the era. The group followed that peak with 2008’s “The Odd Couple” before splitting up.

This tour changes that long pause. It signals that the project is active again in a way fans have not seen since the group’s original run, and it gives renewed life to a catalog that was brief but unusually influential. A comeback tour also adds a performance layer to the reunion around “Atlanta,” turning the new material into something fans can hear in person.

The timing matters because the band has spent years more closely associated with solo work and outside collaborations than with Gnarls Barkley itself. Seeing the duo return together makes the announcement feel like more than nostalgia. It is a direct revival of the collaboration that made the name famous in the first place.

CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse bring very different résumés to the reunion

Gnarls Barkley’s appeal has always come from the contrast between its two members. CeeLo Green, also known as Thomas Calloway, started in the 1990s with the Southern hip-hop group Goodie Mob before building a solo career in the 2000s. He later expanded into television and film, including work on “The Voice,” “Hotel Transylvania,” “Mystery Men,” “Teen Titans Go” and “CeeLo Green’s The Good Life.”

Danger Mouse, born Brian Burton, built his own reputation as a producer and DJ after breaking through in 2004 with “The Grey Album,” the mashup that combined The Beatles’ “White Album” with Jay-Z’s “The Black Album.” He has since collaborated with Gorillaz, Beck, The Black Keys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Norah Jones, Adele, Karen O and A$AP Rocky.

That range helps explain why Gnarls Barkley never felt like a standard side project. It was a meeting point for two artists with very different paths and a shared taste for experiments that could still reach a huge audience.

Atlanta connects the new album to the duo’s shared past

The reunion is centered on “Atlanta,” described as the duo’s third and final album. It arrived in March and includes the lead single “Pictures,” a track inspired by the pair’s shared memories of the MARTA public train system in the 1990s.

That detail gives the project a strong sense of place, even as the tour itself stretches across North America. Atlanta has long been important to Green’s story, and the album’s title points back to that connection while also giving the comeback a clear creative frame.

For fans, the new record is more than a footnote. It helps explain why the duo is touring now, rather than simply staging a nostalgia run around “Crazy.” The album creates a fresh reason for the pair to perform together and gives the concerts a purpose beyond revisiting old hits.

What the set of dates means for a long-awaited live return

Even though the schedule is brief, the announcement carries weight because of how long Gnarls Barkley has been away from the road. Eighteen years is a major gap in any band’s life cycle, especially for a group remembered primarily for a runaway hit and a fast rise.

The quoted tour statement from Green frames the run as something broader than a greatest-hits detour. He described the shows as an open book that explores life, death and everything in between, and he called the songs a silver lining to a sad story. The message suggests the concerts will lean into mood and atmosphere as much as recognition.

For longtime listeners, that could make the dates feel special even before the first note is played. The combination of a beloved catalog, a new album, and a live return after nearly two decades gives the tour a rare level of built-in history.

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