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"GNARLS BARKLEY TAKES HOME TWO GRAMMYS;"

Riding high from winning two Grammys at Sunday night’s 49th Annual Grammy Awards, we’re pleased to report that Gnarls Barkley has been tapped to appear in the famed Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. The 2007 edition hit stands this week, just in time for Valentine’s Day, and features Gnarls alongside supermodel Jessica White.

Gnarls Barkley – the combination of Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green – `was nominated for five Grammys, and won two of the prestigious prizes, for “Best Alternative Music Album” (honoring the RIAA platinum-plus certified “ST. ELSEWHERE”) and “Best Urban/Alternative Performance” (for the history-making hit single, “Crazy”). What’s more, the dynamic duo wowed the audience with a retooled slow-jam rendition of the now classic “Crazy.”

Gnarls’ awards season continued this week with the 27th Annual Brit Awards, for which the duo received three nominations, including “Best International Act,” “Breakthrough International Act” and “Best International Album.” In addition, “Crazy” has earned a Favorite Song nomination for Nickelodeon’s 20th Anniversary Kids’ Choice Awards, slated to air live from UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles on March 31st.
In other news, Gnarls is poised to wrap up its ongoing winter tour alongside fellow Grammy winners Red Hot Chili Peppers. The trek returns to the road on February 27th at Rosemont, Illinois’ Allstate Arena, with dates continuing through March 7th at Houston, Texas’ Toyota Center (see attached itinerary).

“Smiley Faces,” the most recent single/video from the blockbuster “ST. ELSEWHERE,” made its premiere last week across the MTV networks, including MTV, MTV2, and mtv.com. It was added out-of-the-box at MTV – where Gnarls Barkley made a special appearance on TRL during Spankin’ New Music Week – and mtvU. It has now been officially added to VH1 and MTV2 – where it recently received a full day of hourly “Unleashed” airplay. “Smiley Faces” also premiered on BET on February 5th, when it was the “New Joint” on 106 & Park and the band was on hand for the video debut, marking their first appearance on the network.

For additional information, please visit http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2007_swimsuit/musicians/gnarls_barkley/, www.gnarlsbarkley.com, www.myspace.com/gnarlsbarkley.
- DUO APPEARS IN SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SWIMSUIT ISSUE


"Gnarls Barkley Caps Year-Long Ride With"

For Immediate Release
June 27, 2007

Gnarls Barkley Caps Year-Long Ride With
BET's “Group of the Year” Award


Gnarls Barkley was one of the big winners at last night’s BET AWARDS, where they were nominated for three awards and walked away with a trophy for "Best Group."..This award caps off one of the biggest success stories of the past year, and follows the dynamic duo’s win at February’s Grammy Awards where Gnarls was honored for "Best Alternative Music Album" (honoring the RIAA platinum-certified "ST. ELSEWHERE") and "Best Urban Alternative Performance" (for "Crazy").
Gnarls Barkley recently confirmed they are back in the studio preparing the follow-up to their groundbreaking debut, “ST. ELSEWHERE.” - BET's “Group of the Year” Award


Discography

Album
*St. Elsewhere

Singles
* Crazy
* Gone Daddy Gone
* Smiley Faces

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Gnarls Barkley
St. Elsewhere

“You are the best. You are the worst. You are average. Your love is a part of you. You try to give it away because you cannot bear its radiance, but you cannot separate it from yourself. To understand your fellow humans, you must understand why you give them your love. You must realize that hate is but a crime-ridden subdivision of love. You must reclaim what you never lost. You must take leave of your sanity, and yet be fully responsible for your actions.” -Gnarls Barkley, in a letter to the legendary rock critic Lester Bangs

So who is Gnarls Barkley? Diligent pen pal to Bangs, soul giant Isaac Hayes, and Violent Femmes ringleader Gordon Gano? Well-kept romantic consort to pop stars Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson? English teacher to synth-rock legends Kraftwerk? Croupier at a mysterious annual gathering in the Bay Area that allegedly draws members of the Wu-Tang Clan and Britian's Stuckist art collective? It seems that, in the music world, Gnarls Barkley is always nearby yet impossible to find. The membership rolls of both the Atlanta hip hop collective Dungeon Family and Athens, Georgia’s psychedelic enclave Elephant Six list Barkley as an affiliate, but mention him to either group and they’ll shoot each other frightened looks and start talking basketball. The rumors fly hard in every direction and remain defiantly unverifiable.

Clinton Jacks works as a cook in a Waffle House restaurant near the South Carolina coast. “One night back in the year 2000,” he recollects, “I saw Danger Mouse come in here. Cee-Lo was with him. And they had this other dude with them, dressed up like H.R. Pufnstuf. Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo ate big meals, but H.R. Pufnstuf only wanted hash browns. Then they left, Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo, but H.R. Pufnstuf stayed around for hours. He must’ve had twenty cups of coffee. I went in the bathroom, and when I came out, he was gone. But he left a $500 tip on the table. And he left a little note that said, ‘Compliments to the chef. Gnarls Barkley.’”

Danger Mouse, a/k/a Brian Burton, produced the infamous Grey Album, a full-length blend of the Beatles’ music and Jay-Z’s raps that became a cult classic after it was suppressed by EMI. He recently garnered a Grammy nomination for Producer of the Year for his work with the “virtual band” Gorillaz. Having recorded with enigmatic rapper MF DOOM, not to mention a cast of voices from “Adult Swim”, Danger Mouse is no stranger to outsized characters. He admits that he helped out with St. Elsewhere, the first album credited to Gnarls Barkley. “A lot of people ask me about him,” says Danger Mouse when the topic arises. “He found one of my Pelican City records, which was this downtempo experimental stuff I did in college, and I started getting letters from him. He’s not [Blur frontman and Gorillaz co-creator] Damon Albarn – I can blow that myth out of the water for you. A lot of people think he lives in South Carolina. Personally, I think you’d be more likely to find him in Europe.”

From beneath his shroud, Burton's spiritual adviser, the usually silent “Dr. President”, murmurs something unintelligible and then…”Not that I know where he is.”

Cee-Lo Green, a/k/a Thomas Calloway, is a Dungeon Family alumnus, once-and-future member of Goodie Mob and a wildly eclectic solo artist. His music is steeped in the gospel and blues traditions of the Southeast, merging timeless soul with experimental funk and hip hop. He confirms reports that his dramatic voice and soul-rummaging lyrics appear on portions of St. Elsewhere. “Yes, I believe that I sang on at least some of the Gnarls Barkley record,” he says. “But we are not the same person. I am Cee-Lo. I am a humble trumpet, and the wind of God blows through me. You might consider Gnarls the spit valve on the trumpet, were you inclined to consider him at all.” As he walked away, Cee-Lo could be heard to mutter, “You want to know who he is? He’s the dude who owes me thirty-five dollars, that’s who he is.”

Does St. Elsewhere shed light on this mysterious personage, or does it further obscure him? It’s a complex record, to be sure. It employs the full spectra of pop music and human emotion. The warm, breezy single “Crazy” and the spry finger-snapper “Smiley Faces” recall "Songs In The Key Of Life" and “Good Vibrations” in equal measure. “On Line,” a lament for the lonely and ambitious, could be a tricked-out G-funk holdover. Often dark and unpredictable, St. Elsewhere nevertheless retains its sense of joy throughout. Even Cee-Lo’s darker moments, his introspection on “Necromancer”, and the chilling “Just A Thought,” on which our hero fights off suicidal ideation, flourish in their lush, funky surroundings. It constantly shifts its shape and never sacrifices momentum. And it contains a mess of contradictory clues about just who Gnarls Barkley actually is.

“I’ve made him my life’s work,” says Milton Pawley, a Los Angeles music writer widely considered the world’s lead