Dean Budnick

Dean Budnick is an American writer, filmmaker, college professor and radio host who focuses on music, film and popular culture. Budnick, who is Editor-in-Chief of Relix, grew up in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

In April 2012, Plume/Penguin published the revised, expanded edition of Budnick's latest book, Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped in North America and the U.K.ECW Press issued the original hardcover edition of the book, co-authored with Josh Baron, in 2011.Ticket Masters explores the emergence of computerized ticketing and the rise of the modern concert industry. It is the first book to chronicle the origins, development and ongoing strategies of companies such as Ticketron, Ticketmaster, Live Nation and StubHub, the efforts of numerous independent competitors and bands such as the Grateful Dead,The String Cheese Incident and Phish.Wall Street Journal reviewer Ken Kurson wrote, "A clear, comprehensive look at a murky business, the book is also an encyclopedia of information about the rise, decline and rebirth of the live music industry." Similar assessments appeared in Rolling Stone,Maclean's,Pollstar and other outlets. A revised expanded paperback edition was published by Plume in 2012. Budnick has gone to on to appear as a panelist and deliver keynotes about the subject at numerous industry events, including: CMJ, the Ticket Summit, the International Ticketing Association Conference (INTIX), the IAVM Arena Management Conference, by:Larm and the International Music Festival Conference. He has commented about ticketing issues for a variety of media outlets. Budnick continues to write about ticketing and the concert industry for publications such as Relix,The Hollywood Reporter,Billboard (magazine) and Bloomberg View.

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