{"id":167419,"date":"2025-06-17T03:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/17\/good-charlotte-announce-first-album-in-seven-years-motel-du-cap-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T03:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:07:17","slug":"good-charlotte-announce-first-album-in-seven-years-motel-du-cap-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/17\/good-charlotte-announce-first-album-in-seven-years-motel-du-cap-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Charlotte Announce First Album in Seven Years, \u2018Motel Du\u00a0Cap\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/good-charlotte\/\">Good Charlotte<\/a> are officially back. The pop-punk icons announced Monday (June 16) that their eighth studio album, <em>Motel Du Cap<\/em>, is due out Aug. 8, marking their first full-length release in seven years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe band teased the comeback in classic GC fashion: with a cryptic billboard on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles featuring a photo of the band, the album title, and the release date, as per <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/good-charlotte-motel-du-cap-album-announcement-1235360971\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>. While no additional details were included, it was enough to spark buzz across social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAlongside the billboard, Good Charlotte also shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=87443X1644751&amp;isjs=1&amp;jv=15.7.1&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Fmusic%2Fmusic-news%2Fgood-charlotte-announce-album-motel-du-cap-1236000689%2F&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fp%2FDK-C0cWg0nc%2F%3Fhl%3Den&amp;xs=1&amp;xtz=-600&amp;xuuid=659ef316ff1b71762f8062bdc8bda70b&amp;cci=35718c4027766e9b364f05393e04842c\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">teaser<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DK-C0cWg0nc\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> video<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=87443X1644751&amp;isjs=1&amp;jv=15.7.1&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Fmusic%2Fmusic-news%2Fgood-charlotte-announce-album-motel-du-cap-1236000689%2F&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fp%2FDK-C0cWg0nc%2F%3Fhl%3Den&amp;xs=1&amp;xtz=-600&amp;xuuid=659ef316ff1b71762f8062bdc8bda70b&amp;cci=35718c4027766e9b364f05393e04842c\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> on <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=87443X1644751&amp;isjs=1&amp;jv=15.7.1&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Fmusic%2Fmusic-news%2Fgood-charlotte-announce-album-motel-du-cap-1236000689%2F&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fp%2FDK-C0cWg0nc%2F%3Fhl%3Den&amp;xs=1&amp;xtz=-600&amp;xuuid=659ef316ff1b71762f8062bdc8bda70b&amp;cci=a726f60091cc996ce948d262648c8531\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> featuring the mysterious \u2018Motel Du Cap\u2019, alongside the caption, \u201cWaldorf\u2019s best kept historical landmark since 1996. Come stay with us and bask in the beautiful Maryland sunshine! Book your reservation at goodcharlotte.com.\u201d The hometown reference nods to their roots in Waldorf, Maryland, where the band originally formed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DK-C0cWg0nc\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:500px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DK-C0cWg0nc\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; 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center;margin-bottom: 24px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 224px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 144px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DK-C0cWg0nc\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A post shared by \ud835\udd72\ud835\udd94\ud835\udd94\ud835\udd89 \ud835\udd6e\ud835\udd8d\ud835\udd86\ud835\udd97\ud835\udd91\ud835\udd94\ud835\udd99\ud835\udd99\ud835\udd8a (@goodcharlotteband)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<em>Motel Du Cap<\/em> is set to follow 2018\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rock\/good-charlotte-generation-rx-album-stream-8475185\/\">Generation Rx<\/a><\/em>, the band\u2019s seventh studio album, which arrived two years after their 2016 comeback record <em>Youth Authority<\/em>. That project debuted and peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard 200, marking the group\u2019s highest charting effort since 2004\u2019s <em>The Chronicles of Life and Death<\/em>, which reached No. 3 on the chart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHints of a new era began to emerge earlier this year when Good Charlotte posted a nostalgic teaser video featuring archival footage of the band and the caption \u201cGC 2025.\u201d Since then, they\u2019ve announced several major festival appearances \u2014 including Ocean\u2019s Calling and Aftershock \u2014 and last month played Welcome to Rockville, marking their first live performance since 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn the years since <em>Generation Rx<\/em>, the band have released only one standalone single \u2014 2020\u2019s \u201cLast December\u201d \u2014 while brothers Joel and Benji Madden have shifted their focus to business ventures including the artist management and development company MDDN, the livestreaming platform Veeps, and Joel\u2019s <em>Artist Friendly<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Maryland-bred band first broke through in the early 2000s with albums like <em>The Young and the Hopeless<\/em>, which peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and spawned pop-punk anthems including \u201cLifestyles of the Rich &amp; Famous\u201d and \u201cThe Anthem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<em>Motel Du Cap<\/em> is set to arrive Aug. 8. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/good-charlotte-announce-album-motel-du-cap-1236000689\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Charlotte are officially back. The pop-punk icons announced Monday (June 16) that their eighth studio album, Motel Du Cap, is due out Aug. 8, marking their first full-length release in seven years. The band teased the comeback in classic GC fashion: with a cryptic billboard on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles featuring a photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}