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Meatloaf, Chef Boyardee on bread, pigs in a blanket — the meals we complained about at the dinner table are exactly what we miss most now. Continue reading…

If These Walls Could Rock – At A Glance

When: From Friday, August 14
Where: Purchase via Apple TV/Amazon Prime Video
Watch anywhere: With Nord VPN’s 30-day trial

If These Walls Could Rock is a new documentary about the legendary Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood – and the story of the famous rock’n’roll hotel will hit streaming services later this week.

The Tyler Measom and Craig A. Williams-directed film lifts the lid on the famous LA resort and will dive “deep into the debauchery, the music, and the magic that made the Marquis the heartbeat of rock’n’roll for over six decades.”

Along with archival footage and animation, If These Walls Could Rock also features interviews with rock royalty including Slash, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Nancy Wilson, Joe Elliott, Phil Collen, Lzzy Hale, Gene Simmons, Dave Grohl, Billy Gibbons, Roger Daltrey, Chris Robinson and Matt Sorum.

Sharon and Kelly Osbourne also feature to talk about Ozzy.

A synopsis reads: “Featuring an all-star rock’n’roll cast unlike any before it, If These Walls Could Rock is the outrageous story of West Hollywood’s Sunset Marquis, a secret sanctuary for rock icons for more than 60 years. But at its core is the emotional journey between the father who founded the place, and the son who saved it.”

The film will be available to purchase on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video from Friday, August 14 – the same day it premieres at the Landmark Sunset theatre in Los Angeles.

The release of If These Walls Could Rock comes just 24 hours after Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear hit Disney+/Hulu. The Justin Krook and Michael Dwyer-directed flick charts the Blink-182 drummer’s rise to fame and his recovery after the horrific 2008 South Carolina plane crash that claimed the life of four of the six passengers onboard.

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How to watch If These Walls Could Rock

If you want to watch the star-studded documentary, it’ll be available to purchase through a selection of streaming services including Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video.

If you’d like to subscribe to either network, here are the details:

Apple TV: $12.99/£9.99 per month
Free trial?: Yes – one week

Amazon Prime Video: $8.99/£7.99 per month (standalone), $14.99/£8.99 per month (with Amazon Prime), $7.49/£4.49 per month (Student)
Free trial: Yes – 30 days (how to watch Prime Video from anywhere)

How to watch from anywhere

If you’re going to be out of the country on holiday and want to watch If These Walls Could Rock as soon as it’s available, you’ll need a VPN to help you.

Virtual Private Networks are used to change the location of your IP address, enabling you to watch the film no matter where you are. Nord VPN is Louder’s service of choice and it’s currently available with 75% off the usual price – and there’s a 30-day money back guarantee.

How to use a VPN

1. Install a VPN. As we’ve mentioned above, Nord VPN is Louder’s favourite.

2. Choose the location you wish to connect to in the VPN. If you’re currently outside of the country and don’t want to miss the film, just select your country from the list, then log on to your Apple TV or Prime Video account.

3. Kick back and relax: That’s it – you’re all set.

Gloryhammer are unveiling an Alex Henderson-animated/directed video clip for “Die With A Sword In My Hand”, the latest new single from their upcoming opus Space 1993: Wrath Of Kor-Virliath, to be released on October 16, 2026 via Napalm Records.
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Two titans of progressive music, Steve Hackett (Genesis) and Steve Rothery (Marillion), come together on ‘The Roaring Waves’ – a striking and deeply atmospheric instrumental album shaped by memory, imagination, and the elemental power of the sea. The record has been much talked about over the years, and it will now finally see the day on August 28th, 2026 via InsideOutMusic.

On this new podcast, the two guitar legends join the podcast to talk about their new album ‘The Roaring Waves,’ and each shares their 5 favorite instrumental tracks.

Check out the podcast on these services:
Apple • Spotify • Amazon • PodBean • YouTube

Written and recorded intermittently over nearly a decade – with sessions at Racket Club and the duo’s home studios – the album emerged from an organic, improvisational process. Jams and shared ideas form the backbone of the music, allowing both players to explore a collaborative dynamic defined by sensitivity and mutual respect.

Throughout ‘The Roaring Waves’, the duo embrace a painterly, almost filmic approach to composition – crafting music that invites listeners to drift, imagine, and immerse themselves. “You’re trying to create an atmosphere… like painting a picture,” says Rothery. “Taking people on a journey.”

The album is also available to pre-order on several formats, including a Ltd CD+Blu-ray mediabook edition including Dolby Atmos (by Andy Bradfield) & High Resolution Stereo mixes. The album will also be available as a Standard CD & a Gatefold 180g LP, cut at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell. All feature artwork and layouts by Simon Ward. Pre-order now here: https://stevehackettsteverothery.lnk.to/TheRoaringWaves-Album

The full tracklisting is as follows:
1. The Storm
2. Sandsend
3. Red Dragon
4. The Roaring Waves
5. K-129
6. The Black Sea
7. Pacific Coast Highway

The post Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery Interview – The Roaring Waves appeared first on The Prog Report.

Green Lung have shared a track set to appear on their upcoming new album ‘Necropolitan’, and it is pulled straight outta the heart of the Satanic Panic.

Titled ‘Black Magick Radio’, it is a song that bristles with all of the rock and roll devilment and wonderfully catchy heart and soul that made metal such a phenomenon 50 years ago and still lingers heavy today. The band embody the atmosphere of the time perfectly, as they do with everything that they release, but there is so much fun being had in zooming in on this particular part of history.

Occult, audacious and overtly heavy, it’s an absolutely timeless banger.

The band had this to say about the song:

‘’Black Magick Radio’ is our love letter to occult rock itself, and a promise to spread its gospel as widely as we possibly can. All together now… Eko Eko Azarak, Eko Eko Zomelak…”

The tune is taken from the band’s upcoming new album ‘Necropolitan’, maybe the best album name of 2026, which will be released on September 11 via Nuclear Blast.

The artwork looks like this:

Whilst the tracklisting is more like this:

01. Open the Hellmouth
02. Dance to the Grave
03. Black Magick Radio
04. Necopolitan Line
5. Evil In This House
06. Together in Death
07. Ozymandias
08. Alostrael (Be My Babalon)
09. To the Gallows Born

You will be able to catch the band celebrating the album’s release on tour across the UK and Europe later this year, with support coming from High On Fire and Gnome.

DECEMBER

03 – ANTWERP Trix
04 – FRANKFURT Batschkapp
05 – MUNICH Backstage
07 – VIENNA Arena
08 -LEIPZIG Anker
10 – HAMBURG Große Freiheit 36
11 – BERLIN Astra Kulturhaus
12 – COLOGNE Carlswerk Victoria
13 – TILBURG O13
14 – PARIS Bataclan
16 – LONDON The Roundhouse
17 – BRISTOL Bristol Electric
18 – MANCHESTER Manchester Academy
19 – DUBLIN The Academy
20 – GLASGOW SWG3 Galvanizers

The post Green Lung Share Timeless New Track ‘Black Magick Radio’ appeared first on Rock Sound.

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Time to get stupid excited: There’s a new Dummy album coming soon. The LA electronic rock retro-futurists have signed to Polyvinyl for the follow-up to 2024’s Album Of The Week-worthy Free Energy. Titled do you love the color of the sky?, it’s out in October, co-produced by Dummy and Joo-Joo Ashworth, and preceded by today’s lead single “Full Spectrum Dominance.”

The post Dummy Announce New Album <em>do you love the color of the sky?</em>: Hear “Full Spectrum Dominance” appeared first on Stereogum.

Our Top 10 Electric Light Orchestra Albums list looks at one of our favorite classic rock bands born in the 1970s, fueled by the genius of Jeff Lynne. The group evolved out of another band called the Move. The group was formed in 1970 by musicians Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, and Bev Bevan. Roy Wood would leave the band in 1972. Musician Richard Tandy would join the group that same year. Jeff Lynne and Richard Tandy would become the band’s longest-running members. Over time, it would become Jeff Lynne’s band, and he became the group’s face. Electric Light Orchestra released

The post 10 Electric Light Orchestra Albums Everyone Should Own appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Dom Lawson peppers some humor into a very serious update about his health after suffering a heart attack at the U.K. festival. Continue reading…

I laughed exactly once while watching Green Day’s new movie Nimrods, which is dubiously billed as a comedy. It quacks like a comedy, anyway. Characters make outlandish, insanely dumb decisions that result in slapstick gags. They speak in what are clearly supposed to be funny voices. Various quasi-famous comedy types make cameos that are somehow too short and too long at the same time. I didn’t laugh at any of that. I did laugh, however, at the moment when all hope is lost and our teenage loser heroes appear to be heading back home to Kansas City, their dream of opening for Green Day unfulfilled, and the opening guitar notes from “Wake Me Up When September Ends” suddenly crashed their way onto the soundtrack like the Kool-Aid Man. I don’t think I was supposed to laugh at that, but it was pretty funny.

The post I Did Not Have The Time Of My Life Watching <em>Nimrods</em> appeared first on Stereogum.