Lindey-10/30-6:09 pm
There is a new 2004 Good Charlotte calender out.It only cost around $11.00.Click here to see and buy!

>-10/28-5:42 pm
Having spent the bulk of this year opening for the likes of 311, New Found Glory and Good Charlotte, the group is preparing to set out on their own headlining tour. Guitarist William Tell says that the band is getting psyched to play their own shows. Although they love the challenge of playing to new audiences, the group is looking forward to the comfort that comes with hanging in a room full of your own fans.
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Lindey-10/28-5:36 pm
This is an article talks about MxPx and there view on a few things counting Good Charlotte
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Lindey-10/28-5:33 pm
The last time Good Charlotte came to town, in December 2001, the band never performed. Slated to rock The Canal Club, G.C. instead wound up playing some tunes acoustically on the sidewalk after police evacuated the building.

That night, the rumblings of openers Lefty and Midtown and the fervent pogoing of the crowd weakened The Canal Club's floor to the point of possible disaster. Night over, said the cops.

These days, G.C. could sell out a week at The Canal Club given its mainstream success from the unbearably catchy "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous."

Thursday's Siegel Center gig brought out about 2,500 fans - half of them moshing politely on the general admission floor and the rest threatening to rupture the aluminum bleacher seats.
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Lindey-10/28-5:22 pm
HOLLYWOOD � These days Good Charlotte are on top of the world, but there was a time when Benji Madden felt like taking his own life.

"I'll be the first person to say I have the most amazing life of anyone I've ever met, but I did come to certain points of my life where I thought that [suicide] was an option," Benji admitted recently, sitting next to his brother Joel inside the Sunset Marquis Hotel.

His voice trailing off, he quietly acknowledged the role that music played in ultimately steering him away from such a tragic and horrible act.

The Madden brothers and their bandmates have just completed work on a video for "Hold On," the final single from last year's The Young and the Hopeless (see "Good Charlotte Begin Work on Next LP, Get Psyched About 50 Cent Watching Them"). The song is a response of sorts to all of the Good Charlotte fans who have written the band letters saying that they're contemplating suicide (see "Good Charlotte Beg Fans To 'Hold On' ").

"It's the most important song on the album to me because we wrote it for [that] one specific reason," Benji said. "All of our lyrics are really personal, and we get a lot of personal letters ... We want to give [those] fans hope, just to let them know it's never worth taking your own life."

"[It's] probably the most important song we've ever done," added his brother, who brought up the impending 10-year anniversary of the suicide of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and the recent death of singer/songwriter Elliott Smith (see "Singer/Songwriter Elliott Smith Dead; Friends, Fellow Musicians Pay Tribute") as examples of the song's continued relevance. "I think about [them and late Alice in Chains frontman] Layne Staley ... and [other] people we have lost to kind of hopeless situations. And this song is totally about hope."

And with Cobain in mind, Good Charlotte enlisted video director Sam Bayer, the man responsible for Nirvana's groundbreaking "Smells Like Teen Spirit" clip.

"He is probably our favorite director of all time," Joel said. "We never thought we'd get the chance to work with Sam Bayer because he stopped making videos ... I think part of the reason why he doesn't make videos anymore is because he loves music so much and I guess the industry kind of flips you. It can definitely scare you away.

"We called him anyway, because he was our dream director for this song," he added. "We called him and were just like, 'We want to work with you,' and he said, 'Yes'!

" The "Hold On" video, appropriately serious and stark in tone, is not only a collaborative effort between Good Charlotte and Bayer but a team-up with the band and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

"It's almost like a public service announcement," Joel said of the mostly performance-driven clip. "[It includes] real people who have lost sons, daughters and friends, and then kids who have tried to commit suicide, kids who didn't [and] pictures of kids who have killed themselves."

The Madden brothers added that they could have easily chosen a more radio-friendly and accessible song from Lifestyles ..., like the bouncy and fun second single, "Boys and Girls," before it, in place of "Hold On," but they opted to choose message over money. They also saved the video for last in hopes that it would get more attention than the songs before it. "We just hope that maybe one kid will see this video or hear this song and say, 'OK, I'm gonna hold on,' " Benji said.

>-10/26-11:33
Itchin' to get to a concert? Do midterms have you just wanting to flee campus for awhile? This Saturday, Oct. 25, Good Charlotte returns to its home state of Maryland to perform for just one night at the 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the concert begins at 7:30 p.m.
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Lindey-10/25-12:05
Thankyou Mary for submitting this news!
GC canceled / postponed all the European tour dates from Dec 1 to Dec 8 due to a foreseen personal matter.

Lindey-10/25-12:16
Good Charlotte, a sunny rock band even Randy Newman says he's "learned to like" (thanks to his teenage daughter), headlines tonight at the Wachovia Spectrum, with support from Goldfinger and Mest (7:30 p.m., Broad and Pattison streets, $28.50, 215-336-2000).
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Lindey-10/22-3:37 pm
Wakefield: Pop punk wannabes
This record makes me want to vomit. I want to force my finger down my throat and heave up my Toasty Oates so I can forget about this god-awful music. Wakefield�s debut record American Made is part of a musical movement. Which sounds positive but it is not. Musical Movements (which are far from musical revolutions) happen when one band that sounds original, in this case the sound is pop punk, breaks big, and then record labels scurry around to sign whoever sounds identical to them. So, Good Charlotte gets a video on MTV, and no-talent Wakefield makes a record. The ironic thing is that drummer, Aaron Escolopio, used to play with Good Charlotte. It�s funny that he left one band and joined another that sounds identical to the original. It�s like taking off a shoe, and putting a different one that�s exactly the same. At least in GC he�d be making a crap load of cash, what with all the MTV endorsements they have.
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Lindey-10/22-3:37 pm
Good Charlotte getting made fun of
Turn on the modern rock station and you�ll quickly drown in a sea of �Poor me� and �It�s all my father�s fault.�

In the race for the most dysfunctional, Good Charlotte is heading up a wounded tribe of quasi-victimized adults who desperately cling to the cross they�ve hung themselves from.

With the release of �The Young and the Hope-less,� Good Charlotte captured the epitome of martyrdom. Benji Madden, the makeup-wearing, pierced, neo-grunge dorkling and guitarist, gives angry melody to their songs, while singer and Benji�s twin brother, Joel Madden, is more subdued.
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Lindey-10/19-4:50 pm
You cannot let Avril win.All fans of Good Charlotte are disappointed that Avril Lavigne won! Keep Voting!!!

Lindey-10/19-5:08 pm
Houston is holding a giveaway where you can win good charlotte tickets go here to enter.Good Luck!

Lindey-10/15-3:15
One can imagine the tepidness that comes with hearing about how Ryan Adams possibly plays guitar on this "hardcore" album. Yeah, hardcore like fuckin� Adema are hardcore, right? Hardcore suck-ass maybe. Then I�m promptly forced to eat my snarky words as The Finger rip out punk rock �n� roll tirades that would give Electric Frankenstein a hard-on the size of the CN Tower. Blending Incesticide-era Nirvana production values with early Black Flag song structures and intellectual aggression, We Are Fuck You isn�t the most sonically obliterating album out there, but it�s undeniably catchy. It�s also more punk than Good Charlotte getting the reach-around from Tim Armstrong� and you know how much they�d fancy a reach-around from Tim Armstrong.

Lindey-10/15-3:12
Good Charlotte will play a series of concerts in the UK in December as part of their Young and Hopeless World Tour.

The band play Birmingham Academy on December 15, Brixton Academy, 16, and Manchester Carling Apollo, 18 and 19.

Good Charlotte are nominated for two MTV Europe Music Awards, Best New Rock Act and Best Rock Act, held in Edinburgh on November 6.

Lindey-10/14-8:48 pm
Good Charlotte is featured in the Grind House Magazine! I found this out at GC Japan..took a long time to translate..but I found someone!!

Lindey-10/14-8:52 pm
Thanks cassie for these pictures.I was told they were from the Japan tour but I wasn't sure so I didnt put them in the Japan section.

Lindey-10/14-8:48 pm
Good Charlotte is featured in the Grind House Magazine! I found this out at GC Japan..took a long time to translate..but I found someone!!

Lindey-10/14-8:41
They may talk like a punk band, look like a punk band and spit like a punk band, but last night at the Dunkin' Donuts Center, Good Charlotte earned its arena-rock credentials.

Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. They've got more than a few songs that make the grade as industrial-strength sing-alongs, and while their stage chatter comes straight out of the rock-cliche handbook, the conviction with which they played spoke louder than their between-song words.

Several of their most popular songs are memorable, and sometimes quite clever, with strong singing from Joel Madden. And they deal quite directly with kids' frustrations, which was clearly appreciated by the fans last night. (A surprisingly young bunch, incidentally: There were lots of parents waiting in the lobby for their charges.)

Lindey-10/13-6:14
I got a few more pics of benji's hair! Click here and here!

Lindey-10/11-11:32 am
On Good Charlotte's latest run through town, the venue was roughly a third full. And though Sunday faded into a cold, wet, dreary night, it was the band's twin-brother frontmen, rather than their young fans, who were acting like they had to get up for school the next morning.

Vocalist Joel (first names only, thanks) complained of an oncoming bug and listlessly addressed the crowd as if reading from a script - just [insert city and state here]. Guitarist Benji seemed equally enervated until set's end, when, perhaps eyeing the finish line, he put a little skip in his choreographed spin-kicks during songs such as "Say Anything." Read More here

Lindey-10/11-11:27
I've been hearing around that the new video "hold on" will be shown for the first time on TRL this Thursday October 16

Lindey-10/11-11:27 I've been hearing around that the new video "hold on" will be shown for the first time on TRL this Thursday October 16

Lindey-10/11-11:23
Here they go again. Ever since that first video popped up on the screen 23 years ago, MTV has become increasingly offensive. Its regular broadcast of racy music videos, sexually explicit programs, and a generally distasteful line-up has gone farther and farther downhill. So when MTV announced a new contest co-sponsored by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (otherwise known as SIECUS) to bring sex education to an unlucky young person�s hometown, nobody was really shocked. After all, this kind of behavior has come to be expected from MTV.

What did come as a shock this time around is that a relatively clean-cut group has jumped on the bandwagon with MTV to be a key component of this contest. The band on this wagon is Good Charlotte, a popular punk band from Maryland. Not only is Good Charlotte endorsing this contest that asks participants to explain in an essay �why their town desperately needs sex ed,� they have offered themselves as the prize. The contest winner will receive a concert by Good Charlotte in his or her hometown along with free tickets and backstage passes, and, not to be forgotten, the winner�s town will also get a prize � a special sex education seminar presented with the help of SIECUS.
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Lindey-10/11-11:21
Good Charlotte's had a pretty big last couple years.

But despite selling more than a million copies of their second album "The Young and the Hopeless" and headlining their first world tour, the highlight for the band so far was getting punked on national television at MTV's annual Video Music Awards last month.

As the band left the stage after performing their most recent hit, "The Anthem," comedian and VMA host Chris Rock said, "Good Charlotte? More like a mediocre Green Day," referring to the obvious similarities between the two bands.

"That was awesome," said singer Joel Madden, who, along with his twin brother and guitarist Benji, formed Good Charlotte nine years ago while still in high school. "We thought it was great that he even mentioned us. I think we would've been more bummed if he hadn't said anything. He only makes fun of the really famous people!"

The Maddens and the rest of Good Charlotte, guitarist Billy Martin and bassist Paul Thomas, will continue what has been a whirlwind year on Monday when their tour, with opening act Mest, comes to Northwest Ohio for a performance at the Toledo Sports Arena.

"It's been pretty much non-stop since the album came out," Madden, 24, said in a telephone interview before a show in Kalamazoo, Mich., last week. "We've just been going and going like crazy, but we keep setting goals for ourselves. We're not done. It's all part of a plan."

The "plan" started in Waldorf, Maryland in 1994 when, while attending La Plata High School, the 15-year-old Madden brothers decided they wanted to become rock stars. The two took it so seriously that it became the most important part of their lives, spending countless hours learning their instruments, reading as much as they could on the music business, agents and how to get signed to a record label.
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Lindey-10/10-3:27
The screams of hundreds of teenage girls pierced the air as those devilishly fun Good Charlotte boys took to the stage at the State Theatre in Detroit.

This is the last tour to promote their "The Young and the Hopeless" album and soon they will be heading back into the studio to record another album.

This tour has a solid lineup including the pop/punk antics of Mest and the ivory poundings of Something Corporate.

The rambunctious sty lings of Chicago's ska-punk sensation, Mest, opened the show and had no problem getting the crowd pumped.

The audience was jumping up and down in no time.