Hopscotch Music Festival brings a weekend of music to downtown Raleigh. Each of the 15 Hopscotch venues are within walking distance of one another. Fans are encouraged to hop around from club to club, exploring and experiencing all the festival has to offer—day parties, incredible nights of music, discussions between musicians and music critics, poster art shows, bike races, and charity events.
Known for its eclectic mix of styles—from insurgent hip-hop and very heavy metal to classic indie rock and traditional folk, and from bleeding-edge experimental music to party-starting dance music—Hopscotch has proven itself to be a destination for enthusiastic and adventurous listeners.
Schedule
Thursday, September 5
Friday, September 6
Saturday, September 7
Lineup
A-Trak
Action Bronson (Flushing, Queens, N.Y.)
Adult. (Detroit, Mich.)
Ahleuchatistas (Asheville, N.C.)
Airstrip (Durham, N.C.)
Alexander Turnquist (Hudson, N.Y.)
Alpoko Don (Greenville, S.C.)
Ama Divers (Durham, N.C.)
American Aquarium (Raleigh, N.C.)
Amor de Días (London, England/Madrid, Spain)
Angel Olsen (Chicago, Ill.)
Arborea (Lewiston, Maine)
ASG (Wilmington, N.C.)
Ashrae Fax (Greensboro, N.C.)
Beloved Binge (Durham, N.C.)
Big Black Delta (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Bitter Resolve (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Black Zinfandel (Raleigh, N.C.)
Body Games (Carrboro, N.C.)
Boyzone (Carrboro, N.C.)
Broken Prayer (Chicago, Ill.)
Califone (Chicago, Ill./Los Angeles, Calif.)
Casual Curious (Greensboro, N.C.)
Cesar Comanche (Raleigh, N.C.)
Charalambides (Austin, Texas)
Charlemagne Palestine (Brussels, Belgium)
Chatham County Line (Raleigh, N.C.)
Cian Nugent (Dublin, Ireland)
Co. (Charleston, S.C.)
Coke Bust (Washington, D.C.)
Cy Dune (Tucson, Az.)
Dan Friel (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Daniel Bachman (Fredricksburg, Va.)
Dauwd (London, England)
David Grubbs (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Deleted Scenes (Washington, D.C.)
Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba (Carrboro, N.C.)
DJ Paypal (Somewhere, N.C.)
Double Negative (Raleigh, N.C.)
Doug Paisley (Toronto, Ont., Canada)
Drug Yacht (Durham, N.C.)
Dub Addis (Durham, N.C.)
Earl Sweatshirt (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Endless Boogie (New York, N.Y.)
Eros and the Eschaton (Greensboro, N.C.)
Estrangers (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
Evoken (Lyndhurst, N.J.)
Ex Cops (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Ex-Cult (Memphis, Tenn.)
Expo ‘70 (Kansas City, Mo.)
Fat Tony (Houston, Texas)
Foot Village (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Future Islands (Baltimore, Md.)
Golden Void (San Francisco, Calif.)
Gorguts (Richmond, Quebec, Canada)
Gross Ghost (Carrboro, N.C.)
Grouper (Portland, Ore.)
Helado Negro (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
High Aura’d (Boston, Mass.)
High Highs (New York, N.Y.)
HIgh Wolf (Somewhere, France)
Holly Herndon (San Francisco, Calif.)
Holy Ghost!
Horse Lords (Baltimore, Md.)
Houses (Chicago, Ill.)
Ilyas Ahmed (Portland, Ore.)
Inter Arma (Richmond, Va.)
Ironing Board Sam (Hillsborough, N.C.)
Jamaican Queens (Detroit, Mich.)
Jeanne Jolly (Raleigh, N.C.)
John Cale (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Jonathan Kane’s February (New York, N.Y.)
Katharine Whalen (Efland, N.C.)
Ken Vandermark & Tim Daisy Duo (Chicago, Ill.)
Kopecky Family Band (Nashville, Tenn.)
Kurt Vile and the Violators (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Lady Lamb The Beekeeper (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Lapalux (Essex, England)
Last Year’s Men (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Late Bloomer (Charlotte, N.C.)
Leech (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Libraness (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Local Natives (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Loincloth (Richmond, Va./Raleigh, N.C.)
Lonnie Holley (Birmingham, Ala.)
Magik Markers (Holyoke, Mass./Easthampton/Mass.)
Majical Cloudz (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Malcolm Holcombe (Weaverville, N.C.)
Maple Stave (Durham, N.C./Raleigh, N.C./San Francisco, Calif.)
Marnie Stern (New York, N.Y.)
Matmos (Baltimore, Md.)
Matthew Dear (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Melissa Swingle (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Merzbow (Tokyo, Japan)
Midnight Plus One (Carrboro, N.C.)
Mikal Cronin (Orange County, Calif.)
Mike Shiflet (Columbus, Ohio)
Morning Brigade (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Mount Moriah (Durham, N.C.)
Nathan Bowles (Blacksburg, Va.)
Night Beds (Nashville, Tenn.)
Nightlands (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Noise Trauma (Raleigh, N.C.)
Oblivians (Memphis, Tenn.)
Old Quarter (Raleigh, N.C.)
Overmountain Men (Charlotte, N.C.)
OXYxMORON (Florence, S.C.)
Pelt (Madison, Wis./Blacksburg, Va.)
Pere Ubu (Cleveland, Ohio)
Pharmakon (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Pig Destroyer (Arlington, Va.)
Pissed Jeans (Allentown, Pa.)
Plume Giant (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Protomartyr (Detroit, Mich.)
Prypyat (Durham, N.C.)
Purling Hiss (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Regina Hexaphone (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls (Raleigh, N.C.)
Richard Youngs (Glasgow, Scotland)
Riton (London, England)
Rose Windows (Seattle, Wash.)
Ryan Gustafson’s The Dead Tongues (Durham, N.C.)
Ryan Hemsworth (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
Saints Apollo (Raleigh, N.C.)
Sal Mineo (San Francisco, Calif.)
San Fermin (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Schooner (Durham, N.C.)
Shannon Whitworth (Brevard, N.C.)
Shirlette Ammons T4GB (Durham, N.C.)
Slavic Soul Party! (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Sleep (Oakland, Calif./Albuquerque, N.M.)
Solar Halos (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Spacin’ (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Speedy Ortiz (Northampton, Mass.)
Spiritualized (London, England)
Spooky Woods (Durham, N.C.)
Survival (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Suuns (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Swearin’ (Philadelphia, Penn./Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Sylvan Esso (Durham, N.C.)
Terry Anderson and the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team (Raleigh, N.C.)
The Backsliders (Raleigh, N.C.)
The Beets (Queens, N.Y.)
The Breeders (Dayton, Ohio/Los Angeles, Calif.)
The Dreebs (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
The Everymen (Tuckerton, N.J.)
The Human Eyes (Carrboro, N.C.)
The Kingsbury Manx (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
The Lollipops (Raleigh, N.C.)
The Rosebuds (Raleigh, N.C./Brooklyn, N.Y.)
The Shilohs (Vancouver, B.C., Canada)
The South Carolina Broadcasters (Charleston, S.C./Raleigh, N.C.)
Toddlers (Carrboro, N.C.)
Tonk (Raleigh, N.C.)
Torres (Nashville, Tenn.)
Turf War (Atlanta, Ga.)
Twilighter (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
UBT (Montreal, Quebec)
Villages (Asheville, N.C.)
Water Liars (Oxford, Miss.)
Waumiss (Carrboro, N.C.)
Waxahatchee (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Whatever Brains (Raleigh, N.C.)
Wichita Falls (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Wold (Saskatchewan, Canada)
Wolf Eyes (East Lansing, Mich./Detroit, Mich.)
WOOL (Raleigh, N.C.)
XXYYXX (Orlando, Fla.)
Zen Frisbee (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
