Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! definitely your favourite music podcast, we reckon. This week Steve and Sam are having another big competition to find the finest... something. You've already seen the title, you know it's drums. We're delighted to be joined by the engine room behind the finest ragga-metal band of all time, it's only Skindred's own Arya Goggin! We have 32 drummers, and a lot that just missed out (don't @ us), competing to be crowned the greatest ever. Please remember, this is jus...
Mar 17, 2023•3 hr 3 min
Hey you! Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop!... unless you are Sam's mate Chris, who has openly refused to listen to the show. Well, Chris, you're not welcome here anymore buddy! We banish thee! Shame too, Chris, because this week's show is actually really good. Steve and Sam talk about new music from Sleaford Mods, Periphery, Slowthai, Xui Xui, Model/Actriz and Snayx. You'd definitely have liked at least one of those! Probably all of them if we're honest. Steve also reports from seeing Algiers liv...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 57 min
It's time for another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, the music podcast for fans of Lizzo AND Rammstein! Imagine that! This week Sam and Steve have been delighted to see that particular crossover happen, unlike some folks on the internet. We're happy with that, and we're also happy to be reviewing the latest releasing from the likes of Gorillaz, Zulu, Algiers, Full of Hell and Primitive Man, Shame and Rebecca Black. Also, Sam's been listening to loads of Melvins when he's not been bullied by Steve ...
Mar 03, 2023•1 hr 47 min
Yes, yes, it is us, you're right! It's Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a couple of bloody lads talking about bloody music! Steve and Sam have had a hell of a week, if you're asking, with Sam going to see Gojira, Alien Weaponry and Employed to Serve in Nottingham and Steve... erm... not really knowing specifically why everyone is annoyed with Matty Healy again. They've also been listening to new music from a bunch of cracking artists, and we review the latest releases from Code Orange, P!nk, Hundred Reasons, Or...
Feb 24, 2023•1 hr 34 min
HEAR ME NOW! It's another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! and this week Steve and Sam have got reggae on the brain as they talk about a load of early 90's reggae classics for no reason other than Steve's recent appearance on the excellent Pop Collaborate and Listen podcast episode about Chaka Demus and Pliers. They talk about it (for too long if we're honest) about the silly pair, before turning their attention to The BRIT's, Gojira's merch prices, U2's Vegas residency and the sad news of the passin...
Feb 17, 2023•1 hr 47 min
Here we go! It's only bloody Trve. Crvp. Pop! the spin off podcast of us here at Trve. Cvlt. Pop! where we try and find the very worst album ever made by anyone EVER! You might recall us giving you the lovely Christmas gift of Cliff at Christmas... er... at Christmas, last year. We mentioned in that episode that there are over 80 albums that have already been ranked previously by Steve, and now Sam has arrived it is his chance to have his say on the albums (that he's actually listened to, the ma...
Feb 14, 2023•1 hr 19 min
It's Trve. Cvlt. Pop! time again baby! Steve and Sam are back to talk about the week in music. This means there are reviews on new music from In Flames, Young Fathers, Lil Yaughty and Narrow Head, all the gossip from this weeks Grammy ceremony, which means we go "ooh nice!" at wins for Kendrick Lamar and Brandi Carlile and the big 50th anniversary celebration of hip-hop, and "Oh ffs!" at their treatment of metal and ignoring Turnstile, a Healy watch where we fear for the safety of our little Mat...
Feb 10, 2023•2 hr 3 min
Welcome you brave soul, to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a popular music podcast, that is about popular music, and is popular. Apparently. This week Sam and Steve are joined by our good friend and Hell Bent for Metal Podcast host Mr. Tom Dare, to look at new music from Fucked Up, Eyes and Sam Smith, who has inspired our entire show this week after the video for their song I'm Not Here To Make Friends boiled the piss of some reactionary fools! Is the video REALLY that controversial? Or is Sam Smith just havin...
Feb 03, 2023•3 hr 17 min
Welcome back to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, the finest music podcast in this fair land. On this week's show we are celebrating the 55th birthday of legendary vocalist and auteur of musical anarchy, Mr. Mike Patton. Steve and Sam have picked a few of our favourite, most surprising, most inspiring and most underrated moments from the great man's career to show our love and appreciation for a genuine one off performer. Happy birthday Mike! Also, we look at new music from Manneskin and XL L...
Jan 27, 2023•2 hr 1 min
Hey there, welcome to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! the best music podcast in... our own heads. This weeks Sam and Steve are going on a big review binge, as we look at recent releases from VV (Ville Valo to you and I), Belle and Sebastian, King 810, Aiming For Enrike, Obituary and Velvet Negroni. There is also a quick chat on the legacy of Screaming Trees in the wake of the passing of founding member Van Connor, a deep dive into the BRIT Award nominations and the controversy surrounding it and there's a coup...
Jan 20, 2023•2 hr 10 min
Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a lovely music podcast. This week on the show, since it is exactly 65 years since Johnny Cash recorded his classic live document At Folsom Prison, Sam and Steve are trying to find the finest live album of all time. We have 30 live albums that have either been suggested by you or are just generally considered to be amongst the very best, definitive live albums of all time, plus a pair of wildcard picks from each of our hosts, that have entered into a tournament fo...
Jan 13, 2023•2 hr 56 min
We here at Trve. Cvlt. Pop! present to you an exclusive piece of bonus content from our Trve. Clvssic. Pop! Patreon page. On this show we are looking at The Fragile, the third full length album from Trent Reznor's industrial legends Nine Inch Nails, released on the 21st of September 1999. In the first of two parts we look at Reznor's descent in dealing with the aftermath of the success of 1994's The Downward Spiral album. Starting with the debauched and gruelling Self-Destruct tour, his collabor...
Jan 10, 2023•2 hr 21 min
Hello and welcome to the first Trve. Cvlt. Pop! of 2023. Steve and Sam have had a lovely rest, thanks for asking, although Steve did lose his voice. As you'll hear from the croaky tones he's giving out. Still, no time to be ill though! We've got a load of stuff to talk about! There's a review of the latest album from Iggy Pop, we reflect on the sad passing of Faithless' Maxi Jazz and look back at some of the albums that we missed in 2022. It's a right mixed bunch, from Sugababes, Brutus, Big Thi...
Jan 07, 2023•2 hr 11 min
Hello, welcome and merry Christmas. This is our lovely Christmas gift to you from us here at Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, it's the first episode of our new spinoff podcast. It's called Trve. Crvp. Pop! and it is where Steve and Sam dig around the very dregs of the musical landscape and see if we really can name the worst album ever made. It's pretty harsh that we're choosing an album that hasn't even been available to listen to for a month yet as our first pick, but, hey, it's Christmas, and we're going to...
Dec 25, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Welcome back to the, dare we say it, best music podcast in the world...? Nah, too much. Anyway, it's Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, and we are continuing to look back and review the very best of 2022 with Sam's picks for the best songs, gigs, EP's and, finally, top 20 albums of the year. There's some cracking picks in there U KNO! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Dec 23, 2022•1 hr 59 min
Our tribute to The Specials legendary frontman Terry Hall, who passed away yesterday. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Dec 20, 2022•19 min
It's getting to the end of the year, and here we at Trve. Cvlt. Pop! are ready to begin our own personal countdown of the best of the last 12 months. Steve is up first (Sam is also here), and, after a quick chat on recent live shows by The Cure and I Like Trains, he works his way through the highlight of 2022. Which include the best songs of the year, the top 5 gigs, a trio of EP's and his own personal top 20 records of the year. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★...
Dec 16, 2022•2 hr 46 min
STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING! It's a special emergency Trve. Cvlt. Pop! podcast. Steve and Sam were rocked, excited and delighted when one of the finest voices in UK hip-hop, Little Simz, announced that she was releasing her 5th album, and the follow up to last years spectacular, award winning Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, NO THANK YOU with pretty much no fanfare at all. It may have fucked up our album of the year lists, but we wanted to give you our thoughts on a record that marks the third collabo...
Dec 14, 2022•40 min
This is Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, a podcast about your favourite music and that what not. It's getting to that time of the year, where podcasts and publications across the globe start counting down their best of the year lists. Steve and Sam are going to get to that, but before we do we decided to invite some of our friends and peers in the podcasting and music world to give us their five favourite albums of the year. Plus a few other highlights. Shout out A Year in Horror, Pop Collaborate and Listen, T...
Dec 09, 2022•3 hr 56 min
Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a lovely little podcast about music. This week on the show Steve and Sam are joined by Jamie Lenman to talk about five of the albums that inspired the sound of his excellent new album The Atheist, which we reviewed last week don't cha know. We talk about inspirational efforts from Gemma Hayes, The Webb Brothers, Queen, Weezer and the original soundtrack to the 2000 Jim Carrey vehicle Me, Myself & Irene. That's not all though! We also review the latest album f...
Dec 02, 2022•2 hr 8 min
Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! the music podcast that concentrates on music... and laughs. This week Sam and Steve are looking at some new releases with varying degrees of quality, there's Jamie Lenman, Christine and the Queens, Mother Vulture and Louis Tomlinson all running the gamut of decency. Plus we talk about the recent two night London residency by clipping., pay tribute to Wilco Johnson and Keith Levene, pour over the recent Outbreak 2023 announcement and marvel at N-Dubz cancelling a ...
Nov 25, 2022•2 hr 9 min
BLUE ARMY! Hello there, and welcome to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, the best music podcast in the world... so we say. This week the World Cup starts... which is a bit bizarre, but we thought we would get in on the act and talk about the relationship between football and music. Steve knows all about the game, Sam probably calls it soccer, THE IDIOT, so we needed another voice to help us through, and who better to join us than frontman of Therapy? and massive Chelsea fan Andy Cairns. We lo...
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 49 min
Welcome to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, it's a music podcast don't you know. Sam and Steve have loads to talk about this week. Steve caught up with the guys in Show Me The Body to talk about the influences that went toward the creation of their latest album Trouble the Water (which we reviewed last week), he also saw a pair of the Kendrick Lamar shows at the O2, we review new music from Taipei Houston and Melted Bodies, go through the massive Download Festival announcement and pay our re...
Nov 11, 2022•2 hr 50 min
Hi, you're about to listen to Trve.Cvlt. Pop! (YES YOU ARE!) where Steve and Sam look at some of the most interesting stuff in the music world this week. We've got plenty to chat about this week, from new music by Backxwash, Show Me The Body, Marlowe and Carly Rae Jepsen, to news about the retirement of Lungua Ignota, Matty Healy from The 1975 daring to talk shit about Metallica and Red Hot Chili Peppers ruining Smells Like Teen Spirit, it's been a funny one! We also talk about a pair of songs t...
Nov 04, 2022•2 hr 16 min
Hello there, welcome back to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop!... it's a music podcast you know. This week Steve and Sam catch up on a week of very big reviews in the world of music from Taylor Swift, Arctic Monkeys, Architects, Devin Townsend, Loyle Carner and Sugarhorse. We also chat about the wind, the evil wind that destroyed the first day of When We Were Young, Bono admitting that he wants to channel AC/DC on the next U2 album and some bloke going to jail for stealing Ed Sheeran songs and...
Oct 28, 2022•2 hr 41 min
Welcome back to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, the best music podcast ACTUALLY! This week Steve and Sam are delighted to joined by one of the finest solo artists currently operating in the UK; Murkage Dave. We ask Dave about the reaction to his recently released excellent second solo album The City Needs a Hero, chat about Blink 182 tickets, Little Simz winning the Mercury Music Prize and a couple of top quality bangers from The Dillinger Escape Plan and Jamelia that have been stuck in our...
Oct 21, 2022•2 hr 38 min
Welcome back to the 4th EPIC instalment of Trve. Cvlt. Pop!... it's a podcast about music. That's it. Simple. Steve and Sam have this week decided to look at that most glorious of musical happenings, the one hit wonder. They have picked three one hit wonders each, and go into great details discussing their relative merits, or lack thereof. So expect chat on Musical Youth, Jermaine Stewart, The Spin Doctors, McAlmont and Butler, Scatman John and The Automatic. Plus, we mention Liverpool winning t...
Oct 14, 2022•1 hr 48 min
Hello, it's another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! for your enjoyment isn't it. Sam and Steve are still catching up with some of the latest music that has been released over the last few weeks, and cast a critical eye over the latest albums from Bjork, The Mars Volta, Lamb of God and Gabriels. Steve also went to see the big Parkway Drive/While She Sleeps/Lorna Shore triple header, there's talk of two thirds of Fever333 leaving the band (Fever111 more like, AMIRIGHT!) and we look at a pair of stonki...
Oct 07, 2022•1 hr 55 min
Welcome to Episode 2 of Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, a podcast about music. Steve and Sam have spent the week catching up on all manner of indie and alternative music, and give their thoughts on the latest releases from Pixies, Suede, Orville Peck, Life, KEN Mode, Sports Team and Wargasm. Plus we review the big new metal album of the week courtesy of Slipknot's The End, So Far. There's also chat about Mel C refuting 25 year old claims of Maggie Thatcher being the original Spice Girl, the fury of Ian Brown ...
Sep 30, 2022•2 hr 31 min
Welcome to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a brand new podcast about music from the mind of Stephen Hill and Sam Sleight. It's about all and any music, and that's reflected pretty well in our first episode where we look at the best in recent pop music by discussing new albums from Rina Sawayama, No Devotion, Lizzo, Blackpink, Demi Lovato and Noah Cyrus. Plus we discuss Ozzy Osbourne's first ever US Billboard number one album, tell you what songs have been stuck in our heads this week, with Sam obsessing over I...
Sep 23, 2022•1 hr 51 min
