Fat Tony is a Houston rapper whose name runs steadily through Free Press Houston’s music coverage, which introduced him as “Houston’s Fat Tony” and described him as a rapper and “performer extraordinaire.” The archive holds his appearances at Westheimer Block Party in 2009, Free Press Summer Fest in 2009, 2010 and 2012, and Day for Night in 2016, alongside club headlining sets, support slots and occasional DJ appearances. David Garrick named the short release Look among his albums of 2016, and the paper’s coverage places him among collaborators across the city’s hip-hop and indie circles rather than within a single scene.
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Held artifact from Day for Night 2016, an edition the act played. Day for Night 2016 official lineup poster. Black vertical sheet with the concentric teal circular mark, reading DEC 17–18, 2016, Houston, TX and www.DayforNight.io; the SOUND list opens Aphex Twin, ODESZA, Björk Digital, Kaskade, Travis Scott, and Nick Murphy, and the LIGHT list opens United Visual Artists, Björk Digital, Golan Levin, and Nonotak, beneath the Consequence of Sound quote "America's most exciting new festival". Supplied to the archive by Omar Afra. Free Press Houston Archive holding.
5 appearances documented on Free Press Houston bills. Records are kept to the lineup sources the archive holds; nothing beyond them is stated.
Former Barbara Jordan Post Office - Now 'Post HTX'
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Evidence
Free Press Houston's own announcement, held in this archive, names Aphex Twin, ODESZA, Kaskade, Travis Scott, Butthole Surfers, John Carpenter, Marcel Khalife, Kamasi Washington, S U R V I V E and the Welcome To Houston bill, and states that the music lineup was curated by Omar Afra and Chris Wise. The held 2016 lineup poster carries the same headline order. The full roster below is the announced lineup as recorded by JamBase; it is a documented lineup, not a verified record of performance.
Documentary evidence
Portrait — not event-specific. Fat Tony, Brooklyn, January 2013. Jessica Lehrman, 2013. CC BY-SA 3.0. Wikimedia Commons. Artist press portrait released for reuse via Wikimedia VRT; not a Westheimer Block Party photograph.
Free Press Summer Fest 2009Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2009, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
Westheimer Block Party, fall 2009Lineup row held for Westheimer Block Party, fall 2009, source wbp-2009-lineup-page.
Free Press Summer Fest 2010Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2010, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
Free Press Summer Fest 2012Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2012, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
Day for Night 2016Free Press Houston's own announcement, held in this archive, names Aphex Twin, ODESZA, Kaskade, Travis Scott, Butthole Surfers, John Carpenter, Marcel Khalife, Kamasi Washington, S U R V I V E and the Welcome To Houston bill, and states that the music lineup was curated by Omar Afra and Chris Wise. The held 2016 lineup poster carries the same headline order. The full roster below is the announced lineup as recorded by JamBase; it is a documented lineup, not a verified record of performance.
Credits are recorded from each object’s own source. If a credit here is incomplete or wrong, see photo and video credits.
Related Free Press Houston coverage
Archive articles that name Fat Tony. A mention is a sighting in the paper’s own pages, not a statement that the piece is about this performer.
