Hey everyone, it's time for you to listen to this podcast, Trve. Cvlt. Pop!

It's a slight change in scheduling this week, because Gaz is away and Steve is about to go away, so in steps Louder's own former editor of Metal Hammer and ex-podcast lad Merlin Alderslade.

We discuss the events across the 12 months of 2009. Not a banner year in your mind possibly, but there's a very good chance that 2009 was the most eventful year for music so far in this Millennium. There were high profile deaths, the making of future superstars, the launching of the king of the streaming world, shocking events at awards shows and lots and lots of great albums that pointed toward where music was going were released. We talk about it all.