Relix readers who are in the vicinity of New York City tonight are encouraged to join editors Josh Baron and Dean Budnick at the 92YTribeca for the panel that explores the issues presented in their forthcoming book, Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped. The event will take place from 7-8:30 PM with a panel that features John Scher, Mike Luba, Eric Baker and Andrew Dreskin. Scher the promoter, who worked closely with the Grateful Dead, among many other acts and the founder of Metropolitan Talent Presents. Baker, co-founded StubHub in 2000 and has since launched the London-based secondary ticketing platform Viagogo. Luba, who is now the President of Global Music S2BN Entertainment, was a co-founder of Madison House where he managed the String Cheese Incident, working with the band as its SCI Ticketing division brought suit against Ticketmaster in 2003. Dreskin was a principal in the TicketWeb, which sold to Ticketmaster in 2000 and more recently founded Ticketfly, a rising ticketing company in competition with Ticketmaster. The four panelists will address questions from Budnick and Baron, as well as those posed by the audience.

Although the official release date of the Ticket Masters is June 1, books will be available at 92YTribeca (pick one up for the long weekend).