Welcome back to another Trve. Cvlt. Pop! it's the polyjamorous... nah, it's not... it's a music podcast. On this week's show, Sam is here and we look at the slew of music biopics that have been released over the last couple of decades, and show no sign of stopping, and ask; why are they so bad? From a shy Freddie Mercury with awful false teeth to a mockney Amy Winehouse getting blamed for her drug addiction, music biopics almost universally miss the entire purpose of what made their intended sub...
Jul 11, 2025•1 hr 50 min
It's a bonus Trve. Cvlt. Pop! Steve is here to give you a run down of this weekends events in Cardiff and London as he witnessed the return of Brit-pop legends Oasis and thrash metal royalty Slayer
Jul 07, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Hello there and welcome back to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! the polyjamorous music podcast. On this weeks show, we're joined by solo artist in this own right and member of legendary New Zealand rock band Crowded House, Liam Finn, who takes on the 5 album challenge. There's noise rock, 90's alternative sounds, new singer songwriters and more. Plus Sam joins us to review the latest albums from two hardcore bands at different ends of their career, as we chat about the new Turnstile and Dead...
Jul 04, 2025•2 hr 24 min
Steve went to Glastonbury you know. Here's all the stuff he saw whilst there.
Jun 30, 2025•1 hr 35 min
Welcome back to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, the music podcast. On this week's show we're joined by Georgie from Nottingham based alt-rock trio Girlband, who takes the 5 album challenge. She picks classic albums from 90's alt legends, multi-platinum selling superstars, the kings of new wave, modern pop royalty and more. There's also a conversation about the life, legacy and work of Brian Wilson, who passed away a few weeks back, a report from Nine Inch Nails' superb O2 Arena show in Lond...
Jun 27, 2025•1 hr 54 min
Hey there, welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! the music podcast. On this week's show two giants of the festival season face off, and so do two... not actually giants of the podcast world. The lads Dave and Krister from the Pop, Collaborate and Listen podcast are back as we look at the last weekend and compare and contrast Download 2025 and the London iteration of Outbreak. It's festival vs. festival; Green Day vs. Turnstile, queues for Knocked Loose vs. queues for President, sunshine and beer vs. ...
Jun 20, 2025•2 hr 59 min
OLA! It's a little bonus Trve. Cvlt. Pop! for yo' ears! Steve has just returned from this years Download Festival, review coming this week, but as it was his 15th experience of rock and metal's biggest weekend here in the UK, it's time to take a trip down memory lane and rank all of them from worst to best.
Jun 16, 2025•1 hr 34 min
It's time for us all to enjoy another Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, it's a music podcast! On this week's show, Steve and Gaz get hoping mad, and they're not going to take it any more! As we head back into the A-Z of Atrocities, serving up some verbal beatdowns to our own particular pet peeves in the world of music from the letter U, V and W. Expect fury at fan voted lists, the frustrating world of River Cuomo post-1996, band's changing their line ups too much and a certain band giving you a free album in yo...
Jun 13, 2025•1 hr 56 min
Hello, welcome to Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, and here is a little bonus taster episode of a new series that will be appearing on our Patreon page (Patreon.com/trvecvltpop, if you're asking) of Trve. Cvlt. Quiz ! Where we take existing game show ideas and turn them into our own music knowledge face off. In this episode it's Steve vs. Gaz at Tenable. Three rounds each of the game are played, starting easy and going up to the very hard sounding "Hard" round. Who knows their music more? Have a listen to find...
Jun 09, 2025•1 hr 5 min
It's time for a brand new episode of Trve .Cvlt. Pop! a pop music podcast. It's time for our monthly music round up, and, goodness WOW, what a month May 2025 has been! The best month in music since... well... March 2025. We look at new music from Car Seat Headrest, Bleed, Garbage, Billy Woods, McLusky, Propagandi, Aesop Rock, Andy Bell, The Future Sound of London, Ben Keller, Model Actriz, Sparks, The Callous Daoboys, Låpsley, Stereolab, Rufige Krew, John Michel & Anthony James, Pup, Knives,...
Jun 06, 2025•2 hr 12 min
Yeah, it's Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, pop music, podcast, all that. On this week's show Steve and Gaz give you the most comprehensive run down of the UK festival circuit in 2025. Looking at the line ups of 2000 Trees, Outbreak, TRNSMT, Latitude, Rewind, Reading & Leeds, ArcTanGent, Wilderness, Victorious, All Points East, Bloodstock, Parklife, Isle of Wight, Download and, of course, Glastonbury, to see which one is the essential weekend of the summer. *This show was recorded before Kneecap were force...
May 30, 2025•3 hr 10 min
Hi there, you've correctly stumbled onto a podcast about music. It's called Trve. Cvlt. Pop! Thanks for that. On this week's show, Steve & Gaz put their undefeated quiz streak (of just one quiz to be fair) on the line against the top lads from the Bangers & Mosh podcast; Jimi and Dazz. We fight it out for heavy metal supremacy, by tackling five rounds of five questions, all about the world of heavy music. It's a hotly contested affair! Play along at home.
May 23, 2025•1 hr 48 min
Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a podcast all about music. On this week's show Steve and Gaz are joined by friend of the show Dave Fensome from the Pop, Collaborate & Listen Podcast to talk about one of the greatest rock bands of the 1990's; Seattle Grunge legends Soundgarden. It's been 8 years since the tragic loss of Soundgarden, not to mention Audioslave, Temple of the Dog and solo artist in his own right, Chris Cornell. And so as a mark of love and respect for his body of work we go thr...
May 16, 2025•1 hr 57 min
Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! it's a music podcast basically. On this week's show, just after the release of her latest album I'm a Hurricane, I'm a Woman in Love, we are delighted to be joined by Låpsley, who has picked five albums for us to talk about. We look at all manner of music from her picks, including the blues, minimalist electronic, indie rock, modern house and classic folk. Plus there is a quick shout to some joyous, lost 2000's euro-pop in the Lvst. Cvlt. Pop! section....
May 09, 2025•1 hr 20 min
It's Trve. Cvlt. Pop! it's a music podcast, welcome. On this week's show Steve and Gaz shout out the very best music to have been released in April. Covering the latest releases from The Mars Volta, Self Esteem, Heavy Lungs, Xikers, Momma, Superheaven, Jane Remover, Skrillex, Sault, Wolfgang Flur, Ghost, Employed to Serve, Bon Iver, Cloth, Kool Keith, Amplifier, Wu Tang Clan & Mathmatics, Turnpike Troubadors, Miki Berenyi Trio and Teen Mortgage. There's also a chat about the huge story of Kn...
May 01, 2025•2 hr 6 min
Hello there and welcome to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! as music podcast. On this weeks show Steve and Gaz go back for another round of song battles. Two songs in a similar vein, but only one of them can be the definitive tune. Expect trance bangers going head to head, a big post-grunge off, the fight for who invented goth, the 80's banger that Millennials have ruined and more. Plus, it was a very good Friday on Good Friday, with reports from the recent Shelter and Manic Street Preachers ...
Apr 25, 2025•1 hr 53 min
Hello and welcome to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a podcast all about the great stuff that happens in music. On this week's show we are delighted to be joined by one of the UK's finest upcoming, young pop artists; Jessica Winter. Her forthcoming debut album, My First Album, is released on the 11th of July, so as a little aperitif, we asked her to come on and speak about 5 albums. She did not disappoint, picking some absolutely legendary releases that range from 70's AOR, industrial metal, nu-disco, electron...
Apr 18, 2025•1 hr 27 min
It has been a while, but we are back with another Trve. Crvp. Pop!, the search for the worst album of all time. On this episode Steve and Sam look at MDNA, the 12th studio album from US pop icon Madonna, released on the 23rd of March 2012. It looked like Madonna had effortlessly sidestepped the late period wobble that so many of her contemporaries suffered in the 2000's when she released 2005's Confessions on a Dancefloor album and was at the top of her game once again. Even the Hard Candy album...
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr 20 min
No, no... You are welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! it's only a pop music podcast, chill out! On this weeks show Steve and Gaz pick a selection of artists that may not have a number of truly classic albums in their discography, but do have a spectacular singles collection. We pick 8 artists, pick through their very best moments and debate a podium of Gold, Silver and Bronze to crown the finest of their ilk... it's just our opinion though right... you do know that? Good. Also we pay tribute to the...
Apr 11, 2025•2 hr 14 min
Welcome back to another Trve. Cvlt. Pop! your favourite music chat podcast innit. Steve and Gaz are here, Gaz is feeling pretty ropey and ill, bless him. But that can't take away from the fact that March 2025 was an incredible, and we mean INCREDIBLE, month for new music. There is plenty to round up, meaning you're getting reviews of new releases from: Lady Gaga, clipping., The Wildhearts, The Horrors, Playboi Carty, Steven Wilson, Hotwax, Vulfpeck, Swervedriver, Coheed & Cambria, Backxwash,...
Apr 03, 2025•1 hr 58 min
Hey there, it's another Trve. Cvlt. Pop! podcast for your lovely ears. On this week's show Steve and Gaz add another few genres to their ever growing Mount Rushmore of TCP, with four artists representing Shoegaze, Disco and Synth Pop all being debated, discussed and stuck on the mountain. There's also a chat about The 1975's Matty Healy having quite excellent taste in OG emo, a review of the recent Sex Pistols and Frank Carter show at The Royal Albert Hall and a lost hit from 90's pop-punk cold-...
Mar 28, 2025•2 hr 37 min
Hello friends, welcome back to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, a music podcast. On this week's show your hosts interview each other, asking a number of questions that they believe the other has never answered on the show before. Ever wondered why Gaz dressed up as Cambridge United's mascot? How Steve ended up DJing a Golf Club on the outskirts of Hampshire in his teens? Gaz's album to listen to during his last meal, or Steve's first ever hip hop single purchase? No... oh, well, you know, we...
Mar 21, 2025•2 hr 27 min
Hello and thanks for joining us for another Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, a music podcast. On this weeks show we face the daunting challenge of deep diving the single most influential, lauded, important, discussed and dissected discography in the history of popular music; that of The Beatles. We go through every album, and a little bit more, and pick one song from each as our favourite. In the process we chart just why we believe The Beatles back catalogue to be the most essential run of albums in pop histo...
Mar 14, 2025•3 hr 5 min
Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, a podcast about music and stuff. On this week's show Steve and Gaz are here to round up the best music in what has been one of the strongest months for new releases in a very long time. We look at music from Love is Noise, Sam Fender, Manic Street Preachers, Squid, Marie Davidson, Serengeti, Rizzle Kicks, Eddie Chacon, The Murder Capital, bdrmm and Art d'Ecco. Plus we look at the superb line up announcement for Glastonbury, the often bizarre winner of 2025's BRI...
Mar 07, 2025•1 hr 53 min
Oh yes it IS another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! how good of you to notice. On this week's episode Steve and Gaz are joined by Hastings alt-rock trio HotWax, a week before the release of their hotly anticipated debut album, for them to pick 5 albums of their choice. We chat about everything from classic, beloved records to long lost, yet newly discovered gems and much more. Plus, there is a lost pop banger from the Swedish one hit wonder Andreas Johnson (via Sky's coverage of the Premier League ...
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 39 min
Welcome back to another TCP Podcast. The most knowledgeable of ALL the music podcasts... or IS IT?! We're going to find out this week as Steve and Gaz invite our good buddies Dave Fensome and Krister Greer from the excellent Pop, Collaborate & Listen Podcast to challenge us on who are the kings of 90's music facts with a big 'ol quiz. Expect much flexing of brain muscles, much searching of random album names and lots of exasperation at not knowing anything about Abz from 5ive's solo career....
Feb 21, 2025•2 hr 22 min
Hello and thanks for joining us on another journey through music on Trve. Cvlt. Pop! On this week's show we're joined by Cam Humphreys, AKA Love is Noise, who takes our challenge of picking 5 albums with no criteria at all. Cam has a new album out called To Live in a Different Way and we thoroughly suggest you go listen to it. Cam talks to us about his musical journey through 5 albums that take in arena metal, shoegaze emo, metallic hardcore, alternative rock and tech-metal. There's also a revie...
Feb 14, 2025•1 hr 49 min
Welcome back to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! the pop music podcast. On this weeks show we look at the best releases from the opening month of 2025. January is a traditionally slow month in music usually, but with new music from The Weeknd, Brooke Combe, Mogwai, FKA Twigs, MIKE, Jocasta, Midori Hirano, Boldy James and Fenland Drone Workshop. We also look at the nonsense that was the 2025 Grammy Awards (well done to the winners that we like though) and wonder aloud if that Black Sabbath sho...
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 32 min
Welcome back to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! the music podcast. On this weeks show, Gaz takes part in a wonderful game of "Guess the Album by the One Star Review on Amazon or Rateyourmusic.com"... we simply must get a snappier title than that. We've got 20 classic albums from the indie genre, we've got 20 reviews of said album from people who really didn't like those albums. Can Gaz guess what the classic record is from the often bizarre ramblings of people with poor taste in music? We al...
Jan 31, 2025•1 hr 51 min
Welcome back to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! we've got a big one on this weeks show as we are joined by Jimi, Dazz and Defa from the sublime Bangers & Mosh podcast to talk about one of the most iconic record labels in history; Roadrunner Records. As a full blown metal institution , RR has released some of the biggest names and most classic albums in heavy music history. In this first part of our deep dive into their catalogue we discuss what is the best album to start with, the best r...
Jan 24, 2025•1 hr 30 min
