Music

So it’s a new year. And it’s off to a great start. I was off work for nearly two weeks (as you could probably tell by the lack of journal updates), and in addition to going home to suburban Philadelphia and running in Valley Forge National Park (one of my vacation passtimes), I spent a…

It was New York City’s first white Christmas in 30 years. And it was one of my favorites in a long, long time… The lyrics below are from a song I wrote and recorded a few years ago for a Christmas single. Better heads prevailed, and I left it off the single (which included my…

I’m going home now. So, until December 26th, have a safe and happy holidays. Christmas, 1980 Christmas day the snow is drifting, light is growing dim I’m in the backseat, I am listening, I am buckled in On the backstreets no one whispers, no one makes a sound Over rivers choked and frozen through the…

My cousin Andrew released his debut solo CD today, “Horse Year.” The kid who remixed “Summer’s Gone” for the “Summer’s Gone EP.” It’s very Chris Isaak meets Tom Waits meets Wilco. Very cool. So there’s another Wagner on the web at www.andywagner.net. Do check him out.

Well, I was being a little ambitious last week when I said I was going into the studio to demo. What with the holidays and all, Kev and I were hard pressed to find a time that worked for both of us. So it’s gonna’ have to wait until early next year. None the less,…

It’s Sunday. I’m at work. Which kinda’ blows, except that I’m working on me.com. I just finished my “Year In Rock” piece. Sometimes I think this whole website blog thing — for that matter, this whole rock-n-roll thing — is more about figuring things out, like, outside of my head, as much as it’s about,…