Pete Freedman

Rolling Deep.

Before His Prophet Bar Show Tonight, Chevy Woods Talks Finding His Voice Through Years of Mixtapes. After years of touring and dropping mixtapes, Chevy Woods f...

Sucker Punch.

Scenes From Saturday's Sold-Out Charli XCX Show at Trees. Pretty much everyone knew it heading into Saturday's sold-out show at Trees: On this night,...

The Softest Chain In The Game.

Check Out The Dallas-Made, Must-Have Scarf Of The Season. It's the ultimate conundrum: When the temperature drops and scarf season hits, how in hell are y...

Something Old, Something New.

We've Been Calling Leon Bridges The Next Big Thing For Months. Now We've Got Proof. All it took was a single song. And, right then, we knew: Fort Worth crooner...

Almost Famous.

Bucks Burnett Recruits Alejandro Escovedo, Members of REM, Talking Heads and Minus 5 To New Band. Bucks Burnett is a known provocateur. And, hell, as the mind ...

Triple Threat.

The Dallas Rap Movie You Didn't Know You Wanted Is Coming -- And It Looks Amazing. It's long been known: Athletes want to be rappers, and rappers wan...

Bearing Down.

After Baylor's 61-58 Win Over TCU, A Heated Rivalry Is Brewing. There were three nationally televised college football games in the state of Texas on Satu...

A New Transmission.

Austin's Transmission Events Absorbs Tactics Productions, Officially Enters North Texas Market. It's been a week in the concert promotions industry. ...

Cut To The Chase.

NPR Gives Dallas-Based Music Producer John Congleton His Much-Needed Due. John Congleton sightings around town these days aren't altogether rare, necessar...

No Shelter.

Scenes From Last Night's Temples Show at Trees. Back in May, when the British neo-psych outfit Temples -- an act that Britpop icons Noel Gallagher and Joh...

Pete Freedman

Co-Founder, President, Publisher

Pete is the founder, editor and president of Central Track. He is the former music editor of the Dallas Observer. His work has been published in The Daily Beast, Deadspin, LA Weekly, Village Voice, Spin Magazine, The Miami Herald and The Toronto Star, among other major publications. The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies has honored his long-form narrative writing and his blogging efforts alike. In 2009, NBCDFW.com named him one of the 25 Most Interesting People in DFW, a fact he remains all too eager to bring up at dinner parties.