OutKast reunites at Coachella for its 20th-anniversary tour
OutKast headlines the first weekend of Coachella 2014, marking André 3000 and Big Boi's first performance as a duo in ten years and the launch of the 40-date OutKast 20 reunion festival tour. The set draws mixed early reviews — André's reportedly self-critical reaction to the first weekend's performance becomes part of the tour's later mythology — but commercially the run consolidates the duo's standing as the era's preeminent Southern act.
Why it matters
April 11, 2014. OutKast reunited as a touring act on the Coachella main stage in Indio, California, for the first weekend of the festival. Big Boi and Andre 3000 had not performed together as a duo since 2004. The Coachella headlining slot was the opening date of a forty-show OutKast 20 reunion tour, organized partly to commemorate the duo's twentieth anniversary as a group. The Coachella set itself drew mixed early reviews. The crowd was substantially younger than the audience the duo had played to in their 2003 commercial peak; significant fractions of the audience were unfamiliar with the deeper catalog. Andre 3000 has said in subsequent interviews that he was not happy with the first weekend's performance and recalibrated for the rest of the tour. The reunion was a commercial success on the rest of the festival circuit (the duo grossed roughly $60 million on the run). Andre, since the tour, has more or less withdrawn from making rap music and has focused on visual art and a flute album. You can argue the OutKast 20 tour was the project's farewell run. The two of them have not recorded together since.
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