Pete Freedman

So Close.

Scenes From Calvin Harris' Surprise Set at The Travis. Back in its Rio Room days, the Dallas nightclub located at 4515 Travis Street earned itself quite t...

Buzz Rankings: 9/12.

It's a New Dia For The Toadies. Each week, we take a survey of the local music scene and try to determine which acts in town are really putting in work an...

On The Come Up.

Complex Names Dallas-Fort Worth The Most Underrated Hip-Hop Scene In America. Well, duh. Of course Marc Ecko's Complex named Dallas-Fort Worth the most un...

Refraction.

Exclusive: Stream Zhora's New Single, "Lights." If it feels like its been a while since we last heard from Zhora, the intriguing electro-pop outfit fronted by ...

Flash Forward.

Here Are The "13" Tattoos You Can Get at the Elm Street Tattoo Music & Tattoo Festival This weekend's setting up to be a massive one in Deep Ellum as the ...

Spank Goodness.

Scenes From Friday's Debut of Our New Pop That Monthly at the It'll Do. Well, we told you it was gonna be raw. And was it ever. This weekend's debut of our ...

Fresh Looks.

Behind The Scenes At Dirty Rotten Skoundrelz and Bun B's Music Video Shoot at Centre. Less than 24 hours after two of his fellow legendary Houston emcees ...

Better With Age.

Scenes From Friday Night's No Age Show at the Texas Theatre. Quietly, this past weekend was a Sub Pop-filled one out in Oak Cliff.On Saturday night, Dento...

Rock In The Suburbs?

Live Nation and Plano Have Agreed To Terms On a Large-Scale Music Festival For The Dallas Suburb. For the mere starting cost of $625,000, Live Nation will put ...

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.