Trve. Cvlt. Pop!

Hello everyone, we're back with another Trve. Cvlt. Pop! Reviews, a podcast dedicated to one upcoming album that we believe is worth spending an entire episode on.

This time Sam and Steve are looking at Life is but a Dream..., the 8th studio album by Orange County metal megastars Avenged Sevenfold. The follow up to 2016's The Stage has been a long time coming, so long that many people have already made their mind up about the record before they had even heard a note. Mainly because A7X frontman M. Shadows said it was influenced by funk, soul and (gasp) Kanye West! Whilst all of that may well be true, it only tells a tiny bit of the story of the album we get here. This is a wild record, full of some of the biggest flights of fancy that any major metal band have taken in years, possibly decades. Is it any good? Well, it depends on your mindset; do you want your bands to grow, challenge you, take huge risks and show ambition, or are you just a dullard? As you'll hear, we're very pro-Life is but a Dream... 

Hey there! It's the long awaited return of Trve. Crvp. Pop!, the bonus podcast where we try and decipher what the worst album of all time is.

Sorry it's been a while, we've been busy, plus, in all honesty, neither of us wanted to listen to this weeks STINKING album. In the dock this week is Simulation Theory by the modern prog-rock megastars Muse, released on the 9th of November 2018. Steve and Sam have very different relationships with Muse, one likes the early stuff and one... well, doesn't. So what is it about this particular Muse album that is considered so heinous? Well, after a string of well received records over the early part of their career, people started to question Muse in the early part of the 2010's, leading to a supposed "return to rock" comeback with the album Drones in 2015... thing is, not many people cared for Drones that much. Which meant Muse were at something of a crossroads in their career; try again to get rock fans back onside or do something totally different to shock the world. They went for the latter, ditching the ideas of both acoustic and hip-hop (thank God) centric albums to do... well, some Stranger Things, 80's synth, Sci-fi, fight the power bullshit. Is it any good?... We'll tell you here.

It's because he just got back from holiday. Obviously. And a couple of other things.

Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! you fave ever music podcast. Steve is back and, looky here, Sam is back too! This week on the show, it's a bumper massive episode. Mainly because Sam has now heard Wake Up Boo by The Boo Radleys. That alone is worth about 5 hours of chat isn't it?
No. Obviously not. Actually, the main chat comes as we take a dive into the state of the UK festival market, previewing all of the big fests, and some not so big ones, that we possibly can. So you'll get our thoughts on Glastonbury, Download, Reading and Leeds, Isle Of Wight, Bestival, Slam Dunk, Creamfields, British Summer Time, All Points East, Outbreak, 2000 Trees, Arc Tan Gent, Bloodstock and, of course, Mighty Hoopla, plus many more. It's going to be a... summer!

Welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! a bloody lovely 'ol music podcast. This week on the show Steve is delighted to be reunited with an old school podcast legend in the shape of his former Metal Hammer Podcast co-host Merlin Alderslade. The pair are getting down with the sickness, having just one of those days, waking up and putting on a little make up, moving one step closer to the edge and... er... going me loco...? nah, fucked it. Basically we're counting down some of our favourite one hit wonders from the nu-metal era. Expect silly lyrics, silly facial hair, seven string guitars and some names you had long forgotten.

I addition we talk about the new live EP from Denzel Curry and the latest collab album between Billy Woods and Kenny Segal. Plus there is an amazing (for Steve) revelation about how to pronounce the singer from Nickelback's name... if that won't make you tune in...!

Hello there, welcome to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! the pop music podcast... and some other stuff too.

This week Steve is joined by the gloriously lovely Gaz Jones from the Track 1, Side 1 podcast to talk about some cracking new music from Therapy? (Gaz's favourite band ever), The National, Everything But The Girl, Cattle Decapitation and Pet Shop Boys. There's also a big review of 2 (COUNT EM!) evenings of Duran Duran at the O2 and we talk about some huge bangers from Amerie and Roachford. Also Steve does an accidental Dr. Evil impression. Which was nice. 

Hey YOU! Yeah, you've decided to listen to Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, the best music podcast in town... YES IT IS! It's just Steve her for a bit, telling you about a few things that he's been listening to, Sugar Horse, Yaya Bey and Interplanetary Criminal basically, and about the recent Paramore and Bloc Party show at the O2 in London.

Before we introduce the legendary frontman from Therapy?, and also JAAW, Mr. Andy Cairns. Therapy? have a new album coming out next week, and so before we review that we decided to ask Andy to name 5 albums that he wanted to talk about and come on and do exactly that. He gives us his thoughts on some killer music from Joy Division, Burial, Rainbow Grave, Husker Du and Black Flag. GREAT PICKS!

Hello, welcome back to Trve. Cvlt. Pop! the music podcast. Hope you're well, Steve's feeling much better, but Sam has some serous news to share. But, no spoilers here innit.
Instead we'll tell you about the main guts of the show, we're looking at new albums from Metallica, Madlib X Meyhem Lauren X DJ Muggs, The St. Pierre Snake Invasion, Grave Pleasures, Understand and Enny. Plus Steve went to see Elton john at the O2 (and cried, obv) and we get excited about the prospect of a Dillinger Escape Plan, Every Time I Die and Fit For an Autopsy supergroup called Better Lovers. LOVELY STUFF!

Hello and welcome to another episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop!, with a twist! Steve is ill as anything this week (it's serious, it's not Man flu!) and so we've decided to recycle a bit of old #Content for you guys rather than put out literally nothing. It's the 26th anniversary of Depeche mode's classic Ultra album today (the 14th of April) and so we've delved back into the archives and found the first ever Patreon podcast Steve and Sam did, and, what a lucky coincidence, it is on that particular album! Have yourselves a listen and regular programming will resume next week. 

Hello everyone, you've made the correct life decision and decided to listen to this episode of Trve. Cvlt. Pop! the music podcast for all the best people.

On this week's show Steve and Sam have decided to dive into the world of cover versions. We all love some, we all love to hate others, but what makes a truly great or truly terrible cover? We look at various efforts from Muse, The Power Station, Pet Shop Boys, Candy Flip, Godhead and Napalm Death and see if we can find some answers.

There is also reviews of recent releases from MS Paint and DMA's, chat about Robert Smith taking a stand against secondary ticket selling websites, the old Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist slagging off current Red Hot Chili Peppers and we've picked a right pair of bangers from LCD Soundsystem and Anthrax to gush over.