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
2013 Artist Lineup
Local Natives
- 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 DÃas (London, England/Madrid, Spain)
- Angel Olsen (Chicago, Ill.)
- Arborea (Lewiston, Maine)
- ASG (Wilmington, N.C.)
- Ashrae Fax (Greensboro, N.C.)
- Backsliders (Raleigh, 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.)
- 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.)
- 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.)
- Low (Duluth, Minn.)
- 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 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 Beets (Queens, N.Y.)
- The Breeders (Dayton, Ohio/Los Angeles, Calif.)
- The Dreebs (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- The Everymen (Tuckerton, N.J.)
- The Golden Void (San Francisco, Calif.)
- 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.)
- The 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.)