Sonderview's Joshua Russak

What was the first concert you ever attended?

My most memorable early experience was Warped Tour in Queens, maybe 2001. It was my introduction to $10 waters and where I first learned how much dirt you inhale near a mosh pit. I was sneezing mud for a week.

Name a manager not in your company whom you admire.

Anthony Li. He always seemed to maintain a unique partnership and friendship with his clients.

You’re made czar of the concert industry. What’s the first thing you’d change?

Eliminate venue origination fees. Artists invest heavily in renting venues and drawing thousands of fans to these spaces each night. Demanding that they pay tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars extra to professionally film their own performances is extortion.