Music Trajectory’s 20 Albums of the Year + 5 Honorable Mentions

Hello! If you are coming from the 20 Songs of the Year or 25 Underrated Songs of the Year posts, thanks for continuing on with the 2021 year-end posts here on the site. As you may have read, this year is the 10-year anniversary of the site. That’s right, for 10 years I have been …

Music Trajectory’s 20 Songs of the Year + 5 Pop Guilty Pleasures

Hello! If you are a follower of the site, thank you for coming back to check out this year-end post. And if you are new to the site – however you got here – welcome. This is a post that I have done every year since I started Music Trajectory in 2011. (Wow, I just …

New Music Trajectories from Iron Maiden, CHVRCHES, Grouplove, Kurt Vile, and Bastille

[Week of July 16th, 2021] Iron Maiden returns with “The Writing on the Wall”, the assumed lead single from upcoming new album CHVRCHES dish 3rd single “Good Girls” from upcoming new album Screen Violence, out 8/27 Grouplove covers Alanis Morissette’s classic song “You Oughta Know” Kurt Vile contributes cover of “Run Run Run” from upcoming …

Recommended New Music from Mastodon, Grouplove, Gaspard Auge, Ryan Adams, and Frank Turner

Recommended New Music Trajectories Week of May 14th, 2021

Mastodon dishes new song “Forged by Neron” from Dark Nights: Death Metal Soundtrack, out 6/16 Grouplove drops 3rd single/video “Oxygen Swimming” from new album This Is This Gaspard Auge (of Justice) release 2nd single “Hey!” from upcoming debut solo album Escapades, out 6/25 Ryan Adams unveils 2nd single “Big Colors” from album of the same …

Recommended New Music Trajectories from The Joy Formidable, Grouplove, Royal Blood, Future Islands, and Guided By Voices

Week of March 26th, 2021 The Joy Formidable return with new single “Into the Blue”. Hopefully we get a new album here in 2021 Grouplove dishes single and video for “This Is The End”, the de facto 2nd single from new album This Is This Royal Blood releases 3rd preview of upcoming new album with …

Recommended New Music Trajectories from Grouplove, Sharon Van Etten, Imagine Dragons, The Fratellis, and Ghost of Vroom

Week of March 15, 2021 Grouplove drops surprise album ‘This Is This’ featuring standout single “Deadline” IDLES release stellar cover of Sharon Van Etten’s “Peace Signs” Imagine Dragons return with “Follow You” as lead single from upcoming 5th studio album The Fratellis unveil title track “Half Drunk Under a Full Moon”, from new album, out …