Auteur: Dean Budnick

Dean Budnick is the editor-in-chief of Relix magazine and the coauthor of John Popper’s autobiography Suck and Blow: And other Stories I’m Not Supposed to Tell. Budnick is the founder of jambands.com, cocreator of the Jammy Awards, and director of the documentary Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Rock Club, which earned film festival laurels, opened nationally via First Run Features, and then aired on the Sundance Channel. His previous books include Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped, Jambands, and The Phishing Manual. He has written for The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard and for many years cohosted Jam Nation, a radio show that aired weekly on Sirius XM. Budnick, who holds a Ph D from Harvard’s History of American Civilization program and a JD from Columbia Law School, also teaches in the history department at the University of Rhode Island.