flay, THE HUNNA, and Barns Courtney at the Phoenix Event Complex.
It is GC’s first local show since 2011, and the band will headline the ghoulish gig with openers the Struts, k. New Times spoke with Benji Madden just ahead of the Youth Authority tour stop in Phoenix on Saturday, Oct. The band is hoping the break in the action and subsequent back-to-basics and hearts-on-their sleeve songwriting so key to its platinum albums - 2002’s The Young and the Hopeless, 2004’s The Chronicles of Life and Death, and 2007’s Good Morning Revival - will drive them forward for years to come. Sentimental anthems abound here, like on “Life Can’t Get Much Better,” and “Keep Swingin'," which features Kellin Quinn of Sleeping with Sirens. The album harks back to the band’s humble beginnings and pays homage to the old days. Jump ahead to this past July, and Good Charlotte's sixth album, Youth Authority, marked an end to their sabbatical and its long-awaited return, harking back to what got them on the map with guitar-driven rock, harmonizing Madden Bros. The following October, the two released a mixtape, Before – Volume One, under the "Madden Brothers" moniker, followed by a 2014 release, Greetings from California, on Capitol Records. So in 2011, the band went on hiatus.īut the Maddens didn't just stop making music. The creative spark present during the records the band made as young up-and-comers wasn't there. I’m never gonna be the old guy that says, "That’s not this, or that’s not that." I don’t want to be a dinosaur." tweet this Yet after six albums, the twin brain-trust and originators of the band, Joel and Benji Madden, felt they were losing their musical identity. This happened despite harsh criticisms from rock critics as being too boy-bandish and heavy on the teen angst themes of young love and heartbreak. Good Charlotte began its career with a bang and went on to rule the roost as one of pop-punk’s most successful bands among fans, with more than 10 million album sales.
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