Apr 30 2006 8:00P Coachella Indio, CA
May 19 2006 8:00P Later... with Jools Holland London
May 22 2006 8:00P Webster Hall New York, NY
May 24 2006 8:00P Late Night with Conan O'Brien New York, NY
Jun 16 2006 8:00P Hultsfred Festival Hultsfred
Jun 17 2006 12:00P Provinssirock Festival Seinjaoki
Jun 23 2006 8:00P Wireless Festival London
Jun 24 2006 8:00P Wireless Festival Leeds
Jul 14 2006 12:00P North Sea Jazz Festival Rotterdam
Jul 28 2006 8:00P Fuji Rock Festival - Japan Yuzawa-machi
Aug 5 2006 8:00P Lollapalooza Chicago, IL
Aug 26 2006 8:00P Creamfields Festival Liverpool
Sep 3 2006 8:00P Electric Picnic Festival Stradbally
April 27, 2006 @ 2:41 am
Review: Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
"Crazy." It's not only the name of the group's first single (already number one on the UK charts based on MP3 downloads alone). It's also what you'll call this music from the moment you hear Cee- Lo's soaring, soul tenor descend upon a pastiche of chaotic Klezmer-esque horns and jangly dance-hall beats in the opening track "Go GoGadget Gospel."
Fittingly, the theme of mental illness runs through this entire genre-smashing collaboration between two of hip hop's Maddest Hatters (Cee-Lo, of the Goodie Mob, and Danger Mouse, the art-pirate DJ responsible for The Grey Album — the controversial, illegitimate spawn of Jay Z's Black and the Beatles' White records).
left Gnarls Barkley's oddly compelling sound — a witches' brew of rap, indie rock, techno, funk, blues, and who-knows-what-else—is positively cuckoo: from tracks such as "Who Cares?" — a hauntingly toe-tapping meditation on schizophrenia—to "Necromancer," a trip- hop-meets-acid-jazz tribute to the twisted joys of necrophilia.
In spite of (and perhaps because of) the professed insanity of its sonic landscape — including a rocked-out revision of the Violent Femmes' 1983 classic "Gone Daddy Gone" — the duo's debut disc is an irresistibly refreshing challenge to the predictable modern-rock and hip hop conventions, proving that music can be both loony and lovely.
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