Good Charlotte are formally again. The pop-punk icons introduced Monday (June 16) that their eighth studio album, Motel Du Cap, is due out Aug. 8, marking their first full-length launch in seven years.
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The band teased the comeback in basic GC vogue: with a cryptic billboard on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles that includes a photograph of the band, the album title, and the discharge date, as per Rolling Stone. Whereas no extra particulars had been included, it was sufficient to spark buzz throughout social media.
Alongside the billboard, Good Charlotte additionally shared a teaser video on Instagram that includes the mysterious ‘Motel Du Cap’, alongside the caption, “Waldorf’s greatest saved historic landmark since 1996. Come stick with us and bask within the lovely Maryland sunshine! Guide your reservation at goodcharlotte.com.” The hometown reference nods to their roots in Waldorf, Maryland, the place the band initially fashioned.
Motel Du Cap is ready to comply with 2018’s Era Rx, the band’s seventh studio album, which arrived two years after their 2016 comeback report Youth Authority. That mission debuted and peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard 200, marking the group’s highest charting effort since 2004’s The Chronicles of Life and Dying, which reached No. 3 on the chart.
Hints of a brand new period started to emerge earlier this yr when Good Charlotte posted a nostalgic teaser video that includes archival footage of the band and the caption “GC 2025.” Since then, they’ve introduced a number of main pageant appearances — together with Ocean’s Calling and Aftershock — and final month performed Welcome to Rockville, marking their first stay efficiency since 2023.
Within the years since Era Rx, the band have launched just one standalone single — 2020’s “Final December” — whereas brothers Joel and Benji Madden have shifted their focus to enterprise ventures together with the artist administration and improvement firm MDDN, the livestreaming platform Veeps, and Joel’s Artist Pleasant podcast.
The Maryland-bred band first broke by within the early 2000s with albums like The Younger and the Hopeless, which peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and spawned pop-punk anthems together with “Existence of the Wealthy & Well-known” and “The Anthem.”
Motel Du Cap is ready to reach Aug. 8.
