Fredster is a Houston DJ associated with the city’s independent club and arts events. A playlist prepared for Pop Shop America documented selections spanning indie rock, electronic pop, and dance music, including Phantogram, Yeasayer, Justice, and Le Tigre. Fredster’s local appearances included Pop Shop Houston programming and nights at Grand Prize, Boondocks, Ladybirds, and Axelrad. These settings connected record selection with the social life of Houston’s creative community, placing the DJ within a network of neighborhood venues, makers’ events, and informal dance floors rather than a single genre or institution.
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Held artifact from Westheimer Block Party, fall 2006, an edition the act played. Band schedule, printed page 11 of Free Press Houston Issue 72, November 2006, with set times at Numbers and inside and outside Mango’s, plus the Boys & Girls Club DJs at La Strada. Artwork by Jody Worthington. 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.
The held hype deck for the first edition names Kendrick Lamar, New Order, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Janelle Monáe and Dillon Francis and counts 43 bands across three stages; it carries no full bill. The roster below is the announced lineup as recorded by JamBase, which sets out the two festival days and two acts whose day was still pending. It is a documented lineup, not a verified record of performance.
