Though Benjamin Wagner has no idea what he'll face in Waterloo Saturday, he knows he'll be coming full circle. When...
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Judging A Band By Its Covers
Buying "Tiny Dancer"? Would you prefer the original Elton John, the Ben Folds or the Tim McGraw? "Smells Like Teen...
Songwriter And MTV Producer At Emerson College
Benjamin Wagner, songwriter and executive producer of MTV News Digital spoke and performed a song to an intimate crowd...
Part Bard, Part Blogger
Benjamin Wagner has been playing New York's watering holes since the early 90s. His songs are straightforward, with...
Sleepy-Eyed Songwriter
Benjamin Wagner first started playing music in high school. He practiced his songwriting skills and learned the guitar...
Welcoming Benjamin Wagner
New York City singer/songwriter Benjamin Wagner may be one of the music world's best kept secrets. Wagner has been...
Crash Site: Extraordinary
This chap Benjamin Wagner has been sending me demos of his music for about five or six months now. And a week or so...
Rock & Scroll: The Intel Music Fest
If someone yells out "Free Bird" at a computer screen, does it still make a sound? In the Internet era, rock tours are...
Wagner Acoustic Again for ‘Bloom’
Although his music has been compared to that of James Taylor, Michael Penn, Jeffrey Gaines and Suzanne Vega, Saratoga...
Benjamin Wagner’s Caffe Lena Debut
Benjamin Wagner may just be the nicest guy in the Capital District. For some reason, he just exudes friendliness,...
New Albums Spring Up
Last week, Soundcheck heralded the arrival of spring with a story about "One More Monster," the debut from the band...
Suburban Soul
From the quotations pulled from Coleridge, Dickinson, Eliot and Ovid in the liner notes, it's safe bet that Benjamin...