Punk-pop outfit Good Charlotte [ tickets ], which last week announced plans for a small-venue fall tour, have hammered out an itinerary for the trek, and have tapped Pink Spiders [ tickets ] to open.

The roughly four-week outing kicks off Sept 27 in San Francisco and will touch down in about 20 cities by the time it wraps up on the Maryland-based band's home turf in late October. Details are included below.

"We're really excited to announce that we'll be back on the road this September," reads a message the group posted at its MySpace website. "We wanted to get back to you and play some of our favorite clubs that we use to play when we first started out so these shows will be really up close and personal."

The upcoming tour precedes the early 2007 release of Good Charlotte's fourth album, for which a specific release date hasn't been announced. The group is working on the as-yet-untitled disc with producer Don Gilmore, who also helmed the band's self-titled debut.

Gilmore, who has worked with such acts as Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne and Pearl Jam, has been the catalyst for much of the new album's material, according to singer Joel Madden.

"We did like 40-some demos before we even started with Don," Madden said in a statement. "I think we kept three."

The new album "will reveal a mature side of [brothers] Benji (guitar) and Joel [Madden]--who, along with guitarist Billy Martin and bassist Paul Thomas--have been playing together as Good Charlotte since they were teenagers," according to a press release.

"We're still young and have a lot to learn, but I really feel we've grown up a lot over the past three albums," Joel Madden said. "We've never been more secure with who we are, and that gives us the confidence to follow our instincts and share exactly how we feel. We're at a new place in our lives and this is like the beginning of an exciting new chapter."

Nasvhille-based pop-punk trio Pink Spiders is backing its major-label debut, "Teenage Graffiti." The set, which was produced by Ric Ocasek (The Cars), surfaced earlier this month.