Back for the ninth year Hopscotch Music Festival based in Raleigh, NC dropped their 2018 lineup this week and while indie music lovers will search and find plenty to be happy about, it didn’t quite have the same bang that […]
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Hopscotch 2017
Expanding to four days this year, Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, NC featured a variety of up-and-coming local and national acts along with great headlining acts.
Spaceface Talk Southern Roots and Pysch Revival
“Press your space face close to mine, love. Freak out in a moonage daydream oh yeah!” sings David Bowie in his 1972 “Moonage Daydream.” It’s quite fitting that Memphis based band Spaceface gets their name from this song. Their music has a […]
Hopscoth 2016: The Roundup
Hopscotch is always a three day sprint filled with late nights of concerts, lots of venue hopping, and PBR fueled day parties that often offer some of the highlight performances of the festival. This year we got started late Thursday […]
A Look Back at Hopscotch 2015
Every year, Hopscotch Music Festival brings over 150 bands to downtown Raleigh. These bands encompass an incredible number of genres and microgenres, local and international. So it can be hard to run triage and decide what’s worth seeing. This year […]
Hopscotch 2015 in Photos
Hopscotch 2015 Photos Click here to view on mobile. Photos include Natalie Prass, The High Divers, Waxahatchee, Phil Cook, Chelsea Wolfe, Mac McCaughan, Leapling, Some Army, Say Brother, Octopus Jones, Brian Robert, JKutchma, Grandma Sparrow, Daniel Bachman Tweet
Hopscotch 2015 : Thursday Day Party Picks
Unlike SXSW it is somewhat manageable to keep up with the day parties at Hopscotch. For starters most of them are official and coordinated by the same promoters, venues and present many of the same artists officially playing the festival […]
Hopscotch Announce 2015 Lineup
In a busy offseason that saw Hopscotch change hands, purchased by Etix founder Travis Janovich, long time festival goers can breathe a sigh of relief as they’ve come through on their promise of producing “more of the same” when it […]
A Look Back at Hopscotch Music Festival
Over the years Hopscotch has served as a vehicle for new music discovery for me and a chance to see North Carolina acts that don’t visit South Carolina often, but ones I admire and follow online. Every year I’ve experienced […]
Hopscotch Day Party Top Picks
Full List of Hopscotch Day Parties Krill Steve Hears Pile in Malden and Bursts into Tears by Krill As popular DIY indie guitar bands like Speedy Ortiz and Pile have shown, Massachusetts has seen an incredibly prolific music scene as […]
Stream New Music from T0W3RS
T0W3RS release lead single “The Situation” off new album TL;DR due out this fall. It’s been close to three years since we had our first run-in with t0w3rs at a day party at Hopscotch Music Festival in 2011. The band is […]
A Look Back at Hopscotch 2013
I don’t think our 2013 Hopscotch experience could have turned out any better, or more odd. Pissed Jeans and Earl Sweathshirt aren’t two acts we’d normally seek out, but in the great Hopscotch experience we saw what we typically wouldn’t […]
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[Hopscotch] Lady Lamb the Beekeeper and Mount Moriah
Hopscotch Night 2 got off to an interesting start. After catching Gross Ghost, Future Islands, and Holy Ghost! in City Plaza we made our way to Flether Opera Theater just before 9:30 to get front row seats for Aly Spaltro’s […]
Hopscotch Day 1 Recap #Hopscotch13
We dove right into the Hopscotch experience last night. Walking down the streets of downtown Raleigh it seems like everyone you see is in a band, and a lot of them are, but most everyone looks like someone you should […]
Hopscotch Announces 2013 Lineup
(Via Press Release) Hopscotch Music Festival—North Carolina’s biggest and most diverse music festival—is proud to announce the lineup for its fourth-annual party in downtown Raleigh, N.C., scheduled for Sept. 5–7, 2013. Nearly 175 bands will fill 15 venues this year, […]