{"id":14667,"date":"2015-07-19T12:03:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T19:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=14667"},"modified":"2015-07-19T12:03:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T19:03:49","slug":"the-madden-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2015\/07\/the-madden-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MADDEN BROTHERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14668\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Issue37-the-madden-brothers.jpg\" alt=\"Issue37-the-madden-brothers\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Issue37-the-madden-brothers.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Issue37-the-madden-brothers-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><b>THE MADDEN BROTHERS<\/b><\/h1>\n<h3><b>The Good Charlotte rockers take a detour to explore a new creative path<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you should know upfront about Joel and Benji Madden\u2019s debut record as the Madden Brothers: \u201cIt\u2019s completely different from Good Charlotte,\u201d says Joel. \u201cIf you\u2019re looking for high-energy pop punk, it\u2019s definitely not that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tattoo-covered twins started jamming in their tiny, unheated Maryland bedroom at 15. After moving west with big goals, they became Good Charlotte and released five award-winning studio albums from 2002 to 2011, creating a new industry paradigm for \u201chigh-energy pop punk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But three years ago, they began itching for a fresh start. \u201cWe had been on a good run with Good Charlotte. When we got into our 30s, we were like, \u2018What is life now?\u2019\u201d Joel says. \u201cWe\u2019re different guys from when we started the band. We thought, \u2018What if we didn\u2019t just have to make Good Charlotte records? What if we made our own record?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Madden Brothers\u2019 <i>Greetings From California<\/i> was inspired by the records from their dad\u2019s collection that they grew up listening to: the Animals, the Beach Boys, the Eagles, Steely Dan and others. And in the spirit of vinyl, <i>California <\/i>has an A-side and a B-side. The brothers enlisted the help of Eric Valentine\u2014producer of Good Charlotte\u2019s <i>The Young and the Hopeless<\/i> and<i> The Chronicles of Life and Death<\/i>\u2014for one side, and producer Joe Chiccarelli (the White Stripes, the Strokes, the Shins) for the other. Joel describes the A-side as \u201cexperimental pop\u201d with \u201call kinds of sounds and harmonies going on,\u201d and the B-side as \u201cmore of a live band sound.\u201d But, he notes, \u201cIt would be inaccurate to say that Joe\u2019s side is completely live, but that\u2019s how he works. It\u2019s very old-school. It\u2019s fun making music that way. It\u2019s really inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joel credits Valentine with a knack for making him a better singer. While recording \u201cWe Are Done\u201d\u2014which became an instant Top 40 hit\u2014Valentine instructed Madden to watch a Marvin Gaye video for inspiration. \u201cHe was smiling when he sang, and you could almost hear the smile in the performance,\u201d Joel says. \u201cEric has a way of guiding you through it. I can honestly say he teaches me a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The brothers also collaborated with longtime friend Pharrell Willliams on \u201cCalifornia Rain\u201d and \u201cGood Gracious Abbey,\u201d fulfilling their goal of teaming with individuals with a proven track record for making memorable music. \u201cI wanted the record to be special,\u201d Joel says. \u201cWe\u2019re not jumping onto a wave. We\u2019re not taking anything from anyone else. We wanted to create a record that could stand the test of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Shauna Farnell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE MADDEN BROTHERS The Good Charlotte rockers take a detour to explore a new creative path Here\u2019s what you should know upfront about Joel and Benji Madden\u2019s debut record as the Madden Brothers: \u201cIt\u2019s completely different from Good Charlotte,\u201d says Joel. \u201cIf you\u2019re looking for high-energy pop punk, it\u2019s definitely not that.\u201d The tattoo-covered twins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[7660,7663],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14669,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667\/revisions\/14669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}