Pete Freedman

Real Talk.

Everything You Need To Know About The Dallas Dude Set To Appear on The Next Season of The Real World In the next couple of months, the mother of all reality sh...

No Small Play.

Pat Green's New Uptown Venue Will Hold Up to 2,000 People. Earlier this week, the news broke that Texas country star Pat Green and the Bowl & Barrel tandem...

Oral Pleasure.

Dallas Story-Telling Series Oral Fixation Is Really Coming Into Its Own This Season. I was 16 and running for my junior class' student council vice president p...

Bodies In Motion.

Four Days In, A Trio of Local Filmmakers Are Already All The Rage at The 2013 Sundance Film Festival The 2013 Sundance Film Festival is only four days into its...

Under Her Umbrella.

Sarah Jaffe Helps Inspire a New Pixar Short. Over the course of the past five years, area singer-songwriter Sarah Jaffe's registered a number of impressive acc...

All In.

Scenes From Lights All Night 2012. Well, the numbers are in and, now that it's all said and done, the folks behind Dallas' three-day, four-stage, EMD-focused L...

Gift Wrapped.

Scenes From The Riverboat Gamblers and Hagfish Show at Trees on Christmas Night. Reunions aren't always pretty. In fact, more often than not, they can be downr...

Rest in Peace.

Rigor Mortis and Ministry Guitarist Mike Scaccia Died After Falling Onstage on Saturday. He Was 47. Dallas-based guitarist Mike Scaccia, founding member of leg...

A Bigger Pour.

Popular Deep Ellum Watering Hole Anvil Pub To Expand in 2013. Two years back now, brothers Josh Bridges and Loc Holman put some serious work into 2638 Elm Stre...

Licensed to Spill.

Parade of Flesh Announces New Home, 11 Bands for Rebranded Bro Fest Affair. With the folks up at 35 Denton now some 50 bands deep into announcing the full line...

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.