The Scene
Hopscotch Music Festival returns to downtown Raleigh! With more than 450 bands performing to a crowd of 60,000 fans, Hopscotch is the perfect weekend getaway for music lovers in the fall.
Festival Poster
2012 Artist Lineup
Built To Spill
Death Grips
The Roots
Zola Jesus
- Airstrip (Carrboro, N.C.)
- Altar of Plagues (Cork, Ireland)
- Altos (Milwaukee, Wis.)
- Alvarius B. (Seattle, Wash.)
- Amen Dunes (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Arnold Dreyblatt and Megafaun (Berlin, Germany / Durham, N.C.)
- Azure Ray (Omaha, Neb,)
- Balam Acab (Mechanicsburg, Pa.)
- Baobab (Durham, N.C.)
- Baroness (Savannah, Ga./Philadelphia, Penn.)
- Beat Report (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- Big Troubles (Ridgewood, N.J.)
- Bill Orcutt (San Francisco, Calif.)
- Bio Ritmo (Richmond, Va.)
- BIrds of Avalon (Raleigh, N.C.)
- Black Skies (Carrboro, N.C.)
- Black Tusk (Savannah, Ga.)
- Boy Friend (Austin, Texas)
- Built to Spill (Boise, Idaho)
- Burglar Fucker (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
- Calico Haunts (Durham, N.C.)
- Cantwell, Gomez & Jordan (Durham, N.C.)
- Carlos Giffoni (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Charles Latham (Durham, N.C.)
- Charlie Parr (Duluth, Minn.)
- Cheater Slicks (Columbus, Ohio)
- Chelsea Crowell (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Chris Corsano (Rochester, N.Y.)
- Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp (Philadelphia, Penn.)
- Chuck Johnson (Oakland, Calif.)
- Cities Aviv (Memphis, Tenn.)
- Class Actress (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Co La (Baltimore, Md.)
- Colin Stetson (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
- Corrosion of Conformity (Raleigh, N.C.)
- Curtis Eller (Durham, N.C.)
- Damien Jurado (Seattle, Wash.)
- Dan Deacon (Baltimore, Md.)
- Danny Brown (Detroit, Mich.)
- Dead in the Dirt (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Deerhoof (San Francisco, Calif.)
- Delicate Steve (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Doldrums (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
- Donovan Quinn (San Francisco, Calif.)
- Dope Body (Baltimore, Md.)
- Drique London (Raleigh, N.C.)
- Ducktails (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Elephant Micah (Bloomington, Ind.)
- Escort (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Exitmusic (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Feltbattery (Hillsborough, N.C.)
- Field Report (Milwaukee, Wis.)
- Flesh Wounds (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- Flosstradamus (Chicago, Ill.)
- Free Electric State (Durham, N.C.)
- Frustrations (Detroit, Mich.)
- G-Side (Huntsville, Ala.)
- Glenn Jones (Boston, Mass.)
- Grohg (Raleigh, N.C.)
- Gross Ghost (Carrboro, N.C.)
- Guardian Alien (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Guinea Worms (Columbus, Ohio)
- Hacienda (San Antonio, Texas)
- Heads On Sticks (Raleigh, N.C.)
- Hiss Golden Messenger (Durham, N.C.)
- Holograms (Stockholm, Sweden)
- Hubble (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Hume (Washington, D.C.)
- Hundred Waters (Gainesville, Fla.)
- Ital (Washington, D.C.)
- J Kutchma and the 5 Fifths (Durham, N.C.)
- J. Roddy Walston and The Business (Baltimore, Md.)
- Jacaszek (Gdansk, Poland)
- Jackie Chain (Huntsville, Ala.)
- Jane Jane Pollock (Thomasville, Ga.)
- Jenny Besetzt (Greensboro, N.C.)
- JOINT D (Charlotte, N.C.)
- Jon Mueller’s Death Blues (Milwaukee, Wis.)
- Julia Holter (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Kenny Roby (Raleigh, N.C.)
- Kevin Drumm (Chicago, Ill.)
- Killer Mike (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Lambchop (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Laurel Halo (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Lazy Janes (Raleigh, N.C.)
- Left Outlet (Raleigh, N.C.)
- Liars (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Lilac Shadows (Durham, N.C.)
- Little Hollow (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- Lizzy Ross Band (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- Mac McCaughan (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- MAKE (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- Mark Holland (Pittsboro, N.C.)
- Mark McGuire (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Matthew E. White (Richmond, Va.)
- Midtown Dickens (Durham, N.C.)
- Minor Stars (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- Mirel Wagner (Espoo, Finland)
- My Best Fiend (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Nails (La Palma, Calif.)
- Naked Gods (Boone, N.C.)
- Nerves Junior (Louisville, Ky.)
- Nests (Raleigh, N.C.)
- Nick Catchdubs (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- No BS! Brass Band (Richmond, Va.)
- NOBUNNY (Oakland, Calif.)
- Odonis Odonis (Toronto, Canada)
- Oneida (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Oren Ambarchi (Sydney, Australia)
- Paint Fumes (Charlotte, N.C.)
- Pallbearer (Little Rock, Ark.)
- Papa M (David Pajo) (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Phil Cook & His Feat (Durham, N.C.)
- Pipe (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- Pop. 1280 (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Quiet Evenings (LaGrange, Ga.)
- Roman Candle (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- Roomrunner (Baltimore, Md.)
- Samantha Crain (Shawnee, Okla.)
- Savage Knights (Raleigh, N.C.)
- Say Brother (Columbia, S.C.)
- Screaming Females (New Brunswick, N.J.)
- Secret Cities (Fargo, N.D.)
- Secret Mountains (Baltimore, Md.)
- Shark Quest (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- Shirlette & The Dynamite Brothers (Durham, N.C.)
- Shovels & Rope (Charleston, S.C.)
- Silver Swans (San Francisco, Calif.)
- Sinful Savage Tigers (Chapel Hill/ Durham, N.C.)
- Sister Crayon (Sacramento, Calif.)
- Some Army (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- STAG (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- Starlings, TN (Austin, Texas)
- Sunn O))) (Paris, France/Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Sutekh Hexen (San Francisco, Calif.)
- T0W3RS (Carrboro, N.C.)
- Tenement (Appleton, Wis.)
- The Atlas Moth (Chicago, Ill.)
- The Band In Heaven (West Palm Beach, Fla.)
- The Beast (Durham, N.C.)
- The Bronzed Chorus (Greensboro, N.C.)
- The dB’s (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- The Future Kings Of Nowhere (Durham, N.C.)
- The Hot at Nights (Raleigh, N.C.)
- The Jesus and Mary Chain (Glasgow, Scotland)
- The Mountain Goats (Durham, N.C.)
- The Roots (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- The Spits (Seattle, Wash.)
- The Toddlers (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- The Weather Station (Toronto, Cananda)
- Thee Oh Sees (San Francisco, Calif.)
- Tom Maxwell (Pittsboro, N.C.)
- Tomas Phillips and Craig Hilton (Raleigh, N.C.)
- Toon and The Real Laww (Durham, N.C.)
- Valient Thorr (Raleigh, N.C.)
- Vattnet Viskar (Plaistow, N.H.)
- Versus (New York City, N.Y.)
- Whatever Brains (Raleigh, N.C.)
- White Hills (New York City, N.Y.)
- Wood Ear (Durham, N.C.)
- Work Clothes (Carrboro, N.C.)
- Wowser Bowser (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Wye Oak (Baltimore, Md.)
- Wylie Hunter and the Cazadores (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
- Yo La Tengo (Hoboken, N.J.)
- Young And In The Way (Charlotte, N.C.)
- Young Magic (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Zack Mexico (Kill Devil Hills, N.C.)
- Zammuto (Readsboro, Vt.)
- Zeus (Toronto, Cananda)
- Zola Jesus (Los Angeles, Calif.)