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 couple of ear worms from Italian alt-rockers Flying Disk and 80's pop legends ABC. 

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 format and will be whittled down until only one remains, and will be christened at the official Trve. Cvlt. Pop! greatest live album of all time. 

There's also a report of the recent The 1975 show from Steve, and we pay tribute to one of the most influential guitarists of all time after hearing the news of the sad passing of Jeff Beck aged 78.

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 collaboration with David Bowie on his Outside Tour, the stress of producing Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar album, the loss of his Grandmother Clara and how all of these events coalesced into giving Reznor serious writers block and nearly leading him to quitting music altogether. We then look at how he rebuilt his confidence and came up with the concept for The Fragile, before going track by track through the first disc of the album.

The second part is available when you sign up for the £5 a month Trve. Clvssic. Pop! tier at patreon.com/trvecvltpop. 

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.

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? 

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!

Our tribute to The Specials legendary frontman Terry Hall, who passed away yesterday.

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. 

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. 

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!