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 Album of the Week: ‘Senjutsu’ by Iron Maiden | Week of 9/6/2021

Iron Maiden band 2021 Music Trajectory

The album is out, the reviews are in, and it’s all good. Rightfully so. It’s the band’s 17th album and they are 40 years into a legendary career so it’s a revelation for them to put out a piece of work like this. The albums from the 80s can’t be touched, but this album stands …

New Music Trajectories from Blossoms, LORDE, Iron Maiden, Halestorm, and Bastille | Week of 8/20/2021

Blossoms returns with new song “Care For”, assumed lead single from forthcoming album LORDE dishes 3rd single “Mood Ring” from fantastic new album Solar Power, also out this week Iron Maiden offers 2nd preview of new double-album with new single “Stratego” Halestorm roars back with “Back From The Dead”, lead single from new album due …

Editor’s Choice New Song of the Week: “The Writing on the Wall” by Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden 2021 Music Trajectory

[Week of July 16th, 2021] Needing no formal introduction, metal legends Iron Maiden return with new song “The Writing on the Wall”, serving as assumed lead single from upcoming 17th studio album. The new album will be the follow to 2015’s The Book of Souls, arguably the band’s best album since the 1990’s. Watch the …

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 …