[Iceman]

Good Charlotte have announced that they are to take an indefinite hiatus from the music business as a band.

The 'Girls & Boys' group have revealed that they plan to "step away from the grind" for the foreseeable future.

Guitarist Benji Madden told Rolling Stone: "We're stepping away from the grind of making records and touring for a minute, just to have fun and be creative like we were when we were 15."

Benji will release a new free mix-tape titled Before The Fame: The Madden Brothers with his brother Joel Madden in the US on October 1.

Joel said: "We're already having a blast in our studio with all these new artists making music just for fun.

"And the mix tape's free - they're going to get it for free, there's no quota we're trying to fill, there's no machine we're trying to fuel, we just want to make music with new artists and god bless EMI, they let us do what we want."

Good Charlotte released a Greatest Hits compilation earlier this year.

[Locke.]

Awful news

They haven't released anything good for a few years really though

[Roy Mars III]

My fourteen year old self used to love them.

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

My fourteen year old self used to love them.

Punch your 14 year old self

[Locke.]

Boys & Girls, Young & the Hopeless, Lifestyles of Rich & Famous were quality

[Maia]

Haven't heard from them in years. Never cared about them when they were around though.

[reece(:]

i liked the river, boys & girls, the anthem and like its your birthday

[Zippy]

who?

are they not the BFs of Paris and Nicole? or were. There's no recovering from that stigma.

[Stu]

Disposable jagoffs who had their fifteen minutes with some dumb music kickflipping young Stu used to love and who have since lingered in the dim outer reaches of the spotlight due to shagging famous people and leading the ultrawank lives of being rockers with clothing lines.

Bye bye.

[InOne]

I sorta used to like "The Anthem" but I think that was mostly because it was on American Pie

[King Gizzard]

Horrible band