Pete Freedman

Violated.

Scenes From Last Night's Kurt Vile Show at Trees. Kurt Vile moves at his own speed, beholden to no one else's sense of time or place. His guitar-play...

Sugar High.

Already, Glazed Donut Works Is Taking The Week Off and Tripling Its Staff To Keep Up With Demand. We figured people were going to be excited about Glazed Donut...

Watershed.

Scenes From Last Night's Red Bull Sound Select Show at Three Links Featuring Baths. It's weird: When the night's started and it's still pre...

Kung Fu Hustle.

Is Kung Fu Saloon Racist? Allegations of possible recent racist treatment to customers at the Austin location of Kung Fu Saloon are making waves in media circl...

Inked In.

Check Out The Lineup For Oliver Peck's Elm Street Music and Tattoo Festival. A couple weeks back, internationally renowned Dallas tattoo artist Oliver Pec...

Machine Head.

Yes, Machine Gun Kelly Got A Blow Job From Porn Star Rachel Starr At The Monroe This Weekend. This news is already out here, but there's just no way we can ign...

Reach For The Sun.

I Was A Member Of The Polyphonic Spree. (For One Song.) It had already been a weird night. It'd been a weird couple of weeks, actually. But this was an espe...

Something New.

Wanna Stay Even More On Top Of What's Happening? Peep Our New Events and Places Sections. We've quietly been undergoing some changes here at Central ...

Downtown of the Dead.

Those Aren't Snipers in Downtown Dallas. Those Are MMA Fighters Battling Zombies. (In a Movie.) No need to fret over those snipers who've been settin...

Yes, Indeed.

Scenes from The Polyphonic Spree's Album Release Show at The Granada Theater on Friday Night. Perhaps it was all that travelling around the world and the subse...

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.