Gnarls Barkley are returning to the road for their first North American tour in 18 years, bringing CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse back to the stage after their surprise reunion album Atlanta closed an equally long gap between records.
The nine-city To Whom It Still Concerns Tour begins November 5th at The Masonic in San Francisco and runs through November 28th at Chicago’s House of Blues. Los Angeles, Atlanta, Detroit, Boston, Silver Spring, Toronto and New York fill out the route.
Live Nation announced the run September 18th, describing it as Gnarls Barkley’s first tour since 2008. Citi and Spotify presales begin September 21st, an artist presale follows September 23rd, and the general onsale starts September 24th at 10 a.m. local time.
The timing gives the reunion an unusual shape. Atlanta, released March 6th, has been explicitly billed as the third and final Gnarls Barkley studio album. Green and Danger Mouse are returning to sustained touring just as they have declared the recording side of the project complete.
Nine Cities Mark the North American Return
Gnarls Barkley’s first full run back is compact rather than sprawling.
After opening in San Francisco, the duo will play The Wiltern in Los Angeles on November 7th before reaching the city at the center of the new album. The November 10th Atlanta show is booked for the Coca-Cola Roxy.
Detroit follows November 13th, with Boston on November 15th and Silver Spring, Maryland, on November 19th. The final stretch moves through Toronto on November 22nd, New York’s Irving Plaza on November 24th and Chicago on November 28th.
Pollstar lists the full nine-date routing and confirms that Live Nation is promoting the North American run.
The venues are notable for what they are not. This is not an arena-scale nostalgia tour built around the size of “Crazy.” Rooms such as The Masonic, The Wiltern, Irving Plaza and House of Blues put Gnarls Barkley back into theaters and large clubs where the stranger edges of their catalog have room to matter alongside the obvious hit.
Support also changes across the itinerary. The Masonic listing has Gallant joining the San Francisco opener, while Duckwrth appears on later dates including Silver Spring and Chicago.
Atlanta Turned the Reunion Into a Farewell
The tour follows a comeback that arrived with an ending already attached.
Green and Danger Mouse returned in February with “Pictures,” their first new studio recording since 2008. The song introduced Atlanta, a 13-track album released March 6th through 10K Projects and Atlantic Records.
From the beginning, the duo called it their final album. Pitchfork documented the February announcement when “Pictures” arrived alongside confirmation that Atlanta would be the third and last Gnarls Barkley LP.
Green’s description of the tour leans directly into that finality.
“These songs are the silver lining to an otherwise sad story,” he said in the Live Nation announcement, describing the shows as an exploration of “life, death and everything in between.”
The language fits an album that repeatedly circles memory, mortality, identity and the passage of time without abandoning the duo’s taste for soul, funk and oddball pop.
“Pictures” Brought Gnarls Barkley Back to Atlanta
The reunion started with a song about looking backward.
“Pictures” grew from Green’s memories of riding Atlanta’s MARTA system as a child. He described the song as a “full circle moment” when the album was announced, connecting the duo’s return to the city that shaped both musicians.
The title Atlanta is therefore more than hometown branding. Green emerged from the city’s Goodie Mob and Dungeon Family world, while Danger Mouse, born Brian Burton, also has deep Georgia roots. Their partnership originally joined two artists whose musical instincts were already difficult to confine to one genre.
NME described “Pictures” as a nostalgic return built around Green’s gospel-tinged vocal and Danger Mouse’s layered production.
The 13-song album opens with “Tomorrow Died Today” and moves through tracks including “Pictures,” “Turn Your Heart Back On,” “Sweet Evil” and the closing “Accept It.”
Danger Mouse still supplies the production architecture, while Green remains the volatile center of the songs, moving between soul singing, theatrical phrasing and more conversational passages. Atlanta does not try to erase the years between Gnarls Barkley records. Much of its identity comes from hearing the pair revisit their chemistry with those years intact.
An 18-Year Gap Creates a Different Set List
Gnarls Barkley last toured during the The Odd Couple era in 2008, leaving the new shows with an unusual amount of catalog history to absorb.
The duo’s final Los Angeles performance from that period came at the Hollywood Bowl on July 27th, 2008. The set drew heavily from The Odd Couple while retaining St. Elsewhere songs such as “Crazy,” “Smiley Faces,” “Transformer” and “Just a Thought.”
That night also included their version of Violent Femmes’ “Gone Daddy Gone” and an encore cover of Radiohead’s “Reckoner,” the archived set list shows.
Nothing has been announced about the 2026 set list, so there is no basis yet for predicting individual songs beyond the expectation that the tour will draw from Atlanta and the earlier records.
The interesting problem is balance.
St. Elsewhere contains the song that made Gnarls Barkley globally famous, but “Crazy” was never a complete description of the project. The debut moved through psychedelic soul, electronic pop, hip-hop, rock and gospel impulses, while The Odd Couple pushed further into darker soul and densely arranged pop.
Now Atlanta adds nearly 45 minutes of material that has never been part of a Gnarls Barkley tour.
For the first time, Green and Danger Mouse have three full albums to build a headline show around.
“Crazy” Still Casts a 20-Year Shadow
The comeback arrives almost exactly two decades after “Crazy” turned Gnarls Barkley from an unusual collaboration into a global act.
Released in 2006, the single paired Green’s enormous soul vocal with a sparse Danger Mouse production built around an ominous pulse, cinematic strings and a rhythm that never needed to become crowded to feel huge.
Its success pushed St. Elsewhere far beyond the expectations normally attached to an eccentric singer-producer side project and made “Crazy” one of the defining alternative pop records of its decade.
Gnarls Barkley’s catalog never became a long one. St. Elsewhere arrived in 2006, The Odd Couple followed in 2008, and the project effectively disappeared while both musicians continued elsewhere.
Danger Mouse went on to produce and collaborate with artists including The Black Keys, Adele and Black Thought. Green returned to solo work and Goodie Mob while developing a separate mainstream career.
Neither career required Gnarls Barkley to continue.
That makes the 2026 return more interesting than a reunion assembled solely around an old hit. Green and Danger Mouse first made another album, declared it their last, and only then committed to taking the project back on the road.
The Tour Continues Beyond North America
Chicago will close the nine-date Live Nation run, but it will not close Gnarls Barkley’s 2026 return to the stage.
UK performances are scheduled for December, extending the comeback beyond the North American dates announced this week. A December 12th show at the British Airways ARC in London is among the announced appearances.
The venue announcement describes the concerts as the duo’s return to the live stage after 18 years and confirms that material from Atlanta will join their older catalog.
Additional dates could still emerge, but no larger world tour has been announced.
For the North American shows, Ticketmaster currently lists a six-ticket purchase limit. Ticketmaster confirms the September 24th general onsale and says pricing will be released by the event organizer when sales begin.
The routing remains relatively selective for a duo returning after nearly two decades. Nine North American cities and a small group of UK dates look less like an attempt to rebuild Gnarls Barkley into a permanent touring operation than a concentrated live chapter around the final album.
The Final Album Gets Its Live Chapter
Atlanta could have been the quiet ending.
Green and Danger Mouse had already gone 18 years without another Gnarls Barkley album. Calling the third record their final one gave the project a clear endpoint, but the tour puts those songs in front of an audience before the duo closes the book.
It also gives Atlanta a place beside “Crazy,” “Smiley Faces,” “Going On,” “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” and the rest of the catalog in the same room.
The tour announcement calls the shows To Whom It Still Concerns, a title that sounds deliberately unresolved for a project supposedly reaching its conclusion.
Gnarls Barkley have already decided Atlanta is the final album. What they have not done yet is play these songs alongside the records that made the partnership matter in the first place.
After 18 years away from touring, that part of the goodbye is finally happening in public.