Trve. Cvlt. Pop!

Stephen Hill

Trve. Cvlt. Pop! Is a music podcast that doesn’t care about genre.

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Jan 7, 2023 · 2 hr 10 min
The Rest of 2022
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 Thief, Neneh Cherry, Leftfield, Scene Queen, Colour TV, Vince Staples, Kai Whiston and Rosalia. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Dec 25, 2022 · 1 hr 22 min
Our Christmas Gift to You, Trve. Crvp. Pop!: Cliff Richard - Cliff at Christmas
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 go in fairly hard on the UK's lord of festive fun; Cliff Richard. Cliff at Christmas is the tennis ruining, granny favourite's 46th studio album, and, as you can guess from the title, is a Christmas album, which is not the worst idea, as Cliff has a long history of making top class crimbo bangers like Mistletoe and Wine and Saviours Day. But that was over 30 years ago, and, if the video that he released to beg his fans to buy this album is anything to go by, Cliff is in desperate need of a hit album. Will he get it? Well, Stormzy saw to it that he never got the coveted number one spot, but will Steve and Sam hamme the final nail in to Cliff's coffin? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Dec 23, 2022 · 1 hr 58 min
The Best of 2022 According to Sam
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 20, 2022 · 18 min
RIP Terry Hall
Our tribute to The Specials legendary frontman Terry Hall, who passed away yesterday. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Dec 16, 2022 · 2 hr 45 min
The Best of 2022 According to Steve
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 14, 2022 · 40 min
An Emergency NO THANK YOU by Little Simz Review Podcast
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 collaboration with producer Inflo, and lyrically looks at the stresses and trials of her recent success and how the music industry isn't built for keeping keeping your mental health in a positive place. It's more instant and more to the point musically than her previous work, but does it match those heady heights? We think we've got a pretty good idea. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Dec 9, 2022 · 3 hr 56 min
Everyone Else's Best of 2022
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, The James McMahon Music Podcast, Primordial Radio and the Track One, Side One Podcast for giving their time and thoughts. Plus, there's YOUR album of the year as well! We asked you for your favourite albums of the year and you answer, we crunched the numbers and reveal who came out on top here. We even get a lovely little message from this years winner as well. What more do you want?! Dive in! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Dec 2, 2022 · 2 hr 8 min
The Greatest Hit of Chesney Hawkes (Feat. Jamie Lenman)
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 from post-grime (we're claiming it) superstar Stormzy, chat about some divisive earworms from Chewy She, A Flock of Seagulls and Carter USM, we pay our respects to Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie who sadly passed away this week, look forward to new Metallica, wonder aloud why Chesney Hawkes is in Qatar singing at the World Cup and a brief Matty Healy watch is back... he's doing Matty Healy things. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Nov 25, 2022 · 2 hr 8 min
Dappy's Lucozade Hangover
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 gig minutes before they were due onstage. We also shout out a right pair of ragers; a new song from Leeds post-punk provocateurs I Like Trains and the recently reformed hardcore legends Biohazard. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Nov 18, 2022 · 1 hr 48 min
The Final Straw for Joy Division Fans
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 look at 8 pre-tournament tunes to see if they hold up to musical scrutiny, from New Order, Baddiel and Skinner, Black Grape, Collapsed Lung, Fat Les, Ant and Dec, Dizzee Rascal and the England World Cup squad (on numerous occasions)... oh, and, yeah, James Corden as well. FFS. There's also talk of a few songs we've been loving this week, from Mina Caputo, Letlive and Girls in Synthesis. Plus Steve reports of Biffy and Architects big London show at the O2, and a much more intimate affair at Gang of Youths. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Nov 11, 2022 · 2 hr 49 min
Top 3 Banjo Players
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 respects to Mimi Parker from Low, who sadly passed away this week. OH, and there's a LOT of talk about Tim Westwood's acting skills... it makes sense in context. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Nov 4, 2022 · 2 hr 16 min
An Alan Partridge Quote for Everyone
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 that have been stuck in our collective heads this week; one from Korn and one, ooh dear, from Tone Loc... and we do talk about Tubular Bells a lot as well. Thanks to The Exocist. Cheers Exorcist! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Oct 28, 2022 · 2 hr 40 min
A Brief Description of Bitcoin
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 selling them on the... dark web... for Bitcoin... we don't know what that is, but we talk about it anyway. Plus we've had a couple of cracking tunes by Avenged Sevenfold and Anthrax and Public Enemy stuck in our heads this week, so we tell you about that too. It's good! Have a listen. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Oct 21, 2022 · 2 hr 38 min
Murkage Dave Changed our Podcast
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 head this week. We close the show by talking through five of the most influential albums in Dave's lifetime. It's an eclectic mix, with noise rock, classic dancehall reggae, modern soul, mid 2000's indie pop and one of the biggest superstars in the history of music all present and correct. Come have a listen. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Oct 14, 2022 · 1 hr 47 min
Greek Pyramids
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 the bid to host 2023's Eurovision Song Contest, Beyonce snapping back against the DICKHEADS in Right Said Fred, review the excellent new album from High Vis and talk about a couple of ragers stuck in our head from Fugazi and Kid Kapichi. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Oct 7, 2022 · 1 hr 55 min
Carry on Up the Club
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 stonking songs stuck in our head, one a chunky riff fueled rager from hotly tipped UK metal band Urne and one big number one novelty hit from Scottish "rave" band The Shamen. Anybody got any Vera's? LAAAAAAHHHHVVVLEEEYYYY!!!! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Sep 30, 2022 · 2 hr 31 min
The Ian Brown Sock Puppet
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 fans, who have had to bare witness to something truly horrifying... namely, seeing Ian Brown live. And we discuss the songs that have been stuck in our head this week, one from 70's "Queen of disco" Sylvester and another from Kevin Martin's dub heavy The Bug project. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Sep 23, 2022 · 1 hr 50 min
01 - This is Trve. Cvlt. Pop!
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 Italian progressive math metal weirdos Destrage and Steve unable to shake an underrated Nine Inch Nails banger from his mind, and end of a pretty gross chat about one of us happy and willing to suck the Norovirus from a member of Godflesh.