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	<title>Benjamin Wagner</title>
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	<description>Singer/Songwriter, Journalist &#38; Filmmaker</description>
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		<title>Top Ten Songs Of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have this Sam Brown (aka Exploding Dog) signed and framed print in my office directly in front of my desk. It&#8217;s called &#8220;I Love This Music.&#8221; I look at it all day long. I still love this music, though &#8212; in some ways &#8212; 2011 may have been one of my least-musical ever; singing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2012/01/01/top-ten-songs-of-2011/</link>
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		<title>Rockwood Music Hall (New York, New York)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A Holiday Benefit Vol. V&#8221; featuring Chris Abad, Misty Boyce, Bryan Dunn, Zach Jones &#038; Emily Long, Caleb Hawley, Sarah Nischwitz, Dave Pittinger, Chrissi Poland, Martin Rivas, Casey Shea and Benjamin Wagner. All proceeds benefit 826NYC. Buy tickets here. And click here for details on the last four years of &#8220;A Holiday Benefit&#8221; fun!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2011/12/14/rockwood-music-hall-new-york-new-york-18/</link>
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		<title>Casey Shea&#8217;s New LP Gets &#8220;In Your Head&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve followed my pal Casey Shea every step of the way. From his early NYC days straight off the express bus from Music City, to his oversized, undefeated Undisputed Heavyweights shows, to his understated, overwhelmingly-beautiful Sundown. I&#8217;ve roped him into all four &#8220;A Holiday Benefit records (our fifth and final effort bows December 14th at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2011/11/05/casey-shea-new-lp-gets-in-your-head/</link>
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		<title>R.E.M.: Life And How To Live It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;d never seen a man wearing eyeliner, let alone one stabbing, sweating and strutting his way shirtless across a stage back lit by 16mm film of fish swimming in slow-motion. I was in the second row. Standing on my seat for two hours straight. Singing every word. Indeed, R.E.M.&#8217;s 1988 Philadelphia Spectrum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2011/09/21/rem-break-up/</link>
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		<title>Funland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-two years ago this weekend, I left Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, with two grand in my pocket, a hot bike lashed to my VW Rabbit, and a tiny bit of blow in my nose. Back then, we mocked the families we served at Funland, checking out the young, hot, sunburned moms as we strapped their panicky [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2011/07/25/funland-2/</link>
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		<title>Rockwood Music Hall (New York, New York)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Backscratch Session featuring Jeff Littman, John Schmitt, Lara Ewen, Live Society Band, Sam King, Jesse Terry and Valery Mize. Giving Up The Ghost One Day (by Lara Ewen) Dear Elizabeth]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2011/06/27/rockwood-music-hall-new-york-new-york-17/</link>
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		<title>Sunny On These Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight&#8217;s my first rock show in more than a year, and I&#8217;m a little bit freaked. Other than &#8220;A Holiday Benefit, Vol. IV&#8221; in December (where I performed two Christmas standards), and the &#8220;Forever Young&#8221; Benefit in October (ten cover songs), my last show was March 2010. To even call it a rock show is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2011/06/27/sunny-these-days/</link>
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		<title>Baby Brain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m 38,000 feet over Albuquerque, New Mexico, when the newborn in 8B begins crying. I can hear it all &#8212; including the woman behind me whining and sighing to her husband &#8212; despite my noise canceling headphones. A baby&#8217;s shriek is a difficult sound, to be sure. Still, all I can think is, &#8216;Lighten up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2011/05/31/baby-brain/</link>
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		<title>Rachel Platten&#8217;s 53 Steps Into The Great Unknown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most major music careers begin on modest stages. Springsteen cut his teeth at Asbury Park&#8217;s Stone Pony. Elton John made his stateside splash at LA&#8217;s Troubadour. And Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta became Lady Gaga at Rockwood Music Hall. Of course, Rockwood&#8217;s been my home turf since founder Ken Rockwood (the Professor half of one-time Bar/None [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2011/05/24/rachel-platten/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday In The Park With Maggie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a cinematic, spring afternoon.   The sky was unwaveringly blue, shot through with bleached-lemon sunlight, all framed by the piercing, green canopy of a long-slumbering Central Park.  A cool breeze blew from the northwest, scattering pollen like snowflakes on a blanket of fresh grass. In the middle of it all, my eleven-month-old daughter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2011/05/11/tuesday-in-the-park-with-maggie/</link>
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