Pete Freedman

Seeing The Lights.

Now Six Years In, Lights All Night Keeps Shining Bright. A funny thing happened this year along the increasingly mainstream path toward Peak EDM: The inevitabl...

Click Bait.

Here Are Our 15 Most-Read Stories Of 2015. Here's something reassuring: Of our 15 most-read stories here at Central Track in 2015, only four of them are lists,...

Lit.

Our 15 Favorite Party Photos of 2015. We partied in a variety of ways in 2015. We did it up warehouse style. We got wrecked at beer bashes. We did it up all gl...

Word Play.

Here Are The Weirdest Search Terms That Brought People To Central Track In 2015. The Internet is obviously a very strange place, and the day-to-day distraction...

Lemmon Pepper.

Rick Ross Surprised Fans With A Meet-And-Greet At A Dallas Wingstop On Saturday. Just as Miami rapper Rick Ross walked out of a surprise, pre-show appearance a...

Blowing Up.

Michael Bay's Benghazi Movie Will Debut At AT&T Stadium, Weirdly? Let's just zip past the following facts real quick:• There's a movie comi...

The Definition of Is.

Meet The Rad Dudes Behind The Dallas Is Dallas Concept. I'll concede some bias when it comes to my admiration for Hance Taplin and Jordan Rogers. The form...

Such An Obscure Crime.

Possible Motives For The Hipster Bandit Who Robbed A Starbucks In Garland. Garland's Hipster Bandit is such an obscure criminal, you've probably never heard of...

Making A Mockery.

Dallas Gun Activists Staged A Mock Mass Shooting At The University of Texas at Austin on Saturday. The mock mass shooting that was staged at the University of ...

Tis The Season.

Once More, The Polyphonic Spree Brought Much-Needed Holiday Joy To Dallas This Weekend. Santa Claus was there. Some reindeer, too. And, also, penguins, comedia...

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.