Today Eliot Wagner is celebrating the first birthday of Now I’ve Heard Everything, his wonderful NYC music blog. Hard to believe he’s only  been doing it for a year. Prior to starting the blog, he wrote posts for OTBKB three times a week, which he still does (they link to NIHE). He briefly wrote music posts for the Gowanus Lounge.

Eliot is passionate about music and has been involved with music and radio in New York City all of his life.

In the late 60s and 70s, he spent a lot of time at The Fillmore East, The Academy of Music, The Palladium and anywhere bands would set up and play. He was present when Lou Reed and Bob Dylan recorded seminal live albums.

Throughout the 70s and early 80s, radio was his constant companion. Sometimes the dial would be set on WPLJ, sometimes on WPIX, but mostly it would be set at 102.7, WNEW-FM.

These days he can be found  listening to music in Brooklyn and the Lower East Side and here on the Internet. Now that he has a blog, it is his mission to give readers a “continuing music education” and help expand their horizons and learn about the great music that’s out there.

The other night I saw Eliot at the Keren Ann and Danya Kurtz show. He’s a great fan, a great appreciator of music and a walking encyclopedia of the music he loves.

Happy Birthday, Eliot.