Jul 4, 2025 · 2 hr 24 min
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Music
Trve. Cvlt. Pop!
Stephen Hill
Trve. Cvlt. Pop! Is a music podcast that doesn’t care about genre.
- 238 episodes
- Updated Friday
- Explicit
Episodes238
- TCJun 30, 2025 · 1 hr 35 min
The Big Glastonbury 2025 Review
Steve went to Glastonbury you know. Here's all the stuff he saw whilst there.
- TCJun 27, 2025 · 1 hr 53 min
Ep.139: Girlband Take the 5 Album Challenge, RIP Brian Wilson & NIN Live
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 London and a lost pop nugget from garage rock nearly girls The Donnas.
- TCJun 20, 2025 · 2 hr 59 min
Ep.138: Download vs. Outbreak vs. TCP vs PC&L
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. sunshine and tequila cocktails. Who comes out on top?! Plus we recall a fantastic Lost. Cvlt. Pop! banger from Rob & Raz featuring Laila K.
- TCJun 16, 2025 · 1 hr 34 min
Bonus: Download Festival 2009-2025 Ranked Worst to Best
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.
- TCJun 13, 2025 · 1 hr 56 min
Ep.137: The A-Z of Atrocities (U, V, W)
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 your I-Tunes back in 2014... yeah, that ol' chestnut. Plus we pay our respects to a true legend of pop culture, Sly Stone whose spectacular life ended this week at the age of 82. But what a legacy he leaves behind. There's also a lost pop from not so long back by London goth, trip-hop, alt-rock mash up hero Ghostpost.
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Jun 9, 2025 · 1 hr 5 minTrve. Cvlt. Qviz!: Tenable - Steve vs. Gaz
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 out and sign up to get involved even further.
- TCJun 6, 2025 · 2 hr 11 min
Ep.136: May 2025, the new March 2025 (Monthly Reviews)
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, Shura, Al Wooton and Chloe Qisha. Phew!
- TCMay 30, 2025 · 3 hr 9 min
Ep.135: The Summer Festival Preview Show
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 forced from the TRNSMT line up... and before Kings of Leon cancelled all their UK shows... which is not as dramatic, obviously.
- TCMay 23, 2025 · 1 hr 47 min
Ep.134: The Heavy Metal Music Quiz - Trve. Cvlt. Pop! vs. Bangers & Mosh
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.
- TCMay 16, 2025 · 1 hr 57 min
Ep.133: Soundgarden Discography Deep Dive
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 through all of Soundgarden's full length releases and pick a favourite song from them. From their punky early stuff, their huge 90's breakthrough classic and their unfortunately underwhelming end, we look at them all.
- TCMay 9, 2025 · 1 hr 19 min
Ep.132: Låpsley takes on the 5 Album Challenge
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.
- TCMay 1, 2025 · 2 hr 6 min
Ep.131: The Best of April's Music Releases
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 Kneecap and the mainstream furore over their onstage behaviour.
- TCApr 25, 2025 · 1 hr 53 min
Ep.130: Songs Battles 2! The Goth off, rap beefs, Beyonce vs. Beyonce & more.
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 show, and a lost classic pop banger from La Roux.
- TCApr 18, 2025 · 1 hr 26 min
Ep.129 Jessica Winter vs. The 5 Album Challenge
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, electronic chillout and pure iconic pop. We also discuss Katy Perry's bizarre trip into space, The Who imploding merely weeks after we suggested that might happen and recall that rarest of things; a chart hit from post-punk misanthropes Killing Joke.
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Apr 15, 2025 · 1 hr 19 minTrve. Crvp. Pop! Ep.13: Madonna - MDNA
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 of 2008 yielded a pretty massive single as well. Well done Madonna, you've cracked it! Or had she, soon things started to get pretty messed up in here personal life, a divorce from cockney, wide boy movie director Guy Ritchie was a right slap in the facking noggin... or something. And by the time she was pimping herself out on Facebook for people to collab with in 2011, it looked like another wobble was on its way. It was when the title for her comeback album was released that things took a serious turn for the worst though, the clunky MDNA made people worry she was trying too hard, and when the album arrived and sold less than a 5th of Confessions... the "Is Madonna past it" discourse started up again. A decade later though, is MDNA that bad? Well, we'll let you know.
- TCApr 11, 2025 · 2 hr 13 min
Ep.128: The Greatest of Greatest Hits
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 late Blondie drummer Clem Burke, marvel that Fyre Fest 2 might actually be happing... and might be even shitter than last time, try and make sense of the new about a bizarre and quite serious Weezer based incident and big up a long lost banger from a true icon of music.
- TCApr 3, 2025 · 1 hr 57 min
Ep.127: March 2025, Music's Greatest Ever Month
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, Bob Mould, Swarmi John Reis, Hamilton Leithauser, Deafheaven, Raging Speedhorn, Girlpuppy, Polly Money, Sacred Paws and Firehills. There's also a review of The Who and Level 42 at The Royal Albert Hall.
- TCMar 28, 2025 · 2 hr 37 min
Ep.126: The Mount Rushmore of Shoegaze, Disco & Synth Pop
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-have-beens Symposium.
- TCMar 21, 2025 · 2 hr 27 min
Ep.125: The Hill/Jones Cross Examination
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 answer these questions and more here. There's also a lost banger from Lemar to chat about!