Hopscotch has announced a huge lineup.
The Roots, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Built To Spill will headline the 2012 Hopscotch Festival held in downtown Raleigh. The early September show (Sept. 6-8) will feature 175 bands in 15 venues over the three days. Produced by the Independent Weekly newspaper, Hopscotch strives to represent local, regional, and national acts that cover a wide variety of genres.
Some of the more recognizable names in the lineup include: Yo La Tengo, Liars, Sunn O))), Danny Brown, Thee Oh Sees, Baroness, Death Grips, Deerhoof, Damien Jurado, Flosstradamus, Zola Jesus, Laurel Halo, Pallbearer, Young Magic, Lambchop, Cities Aviv, Oneida, Wye Oak, Samantha Crain, Glenn Jones, The Spits and Colin Stetson.
Wristbands for all three days will run $110 or $165 for VIP. And for the first time, Hopscotch will offer single day admission ($55-$75).
This is the third outing of the Hopscotch and it just keeps getting larger each year. This North Carolina showcase fest, along with MoogFest in neighboring Asheville and the Athens PopFest, are really staking the claim that the South is the place to be come this autumn for music festivals.
2012 Hopscotch Festival Lineup
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.)
Balam Acab (Mechanicsburg, P.A.)
Baroness (Savannah, Ga.)
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.)
Boy Friend (Austin, Texas)
Built to Spill (Boise, I.D.)
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 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.)
Death Grips (Sacramento, Calif.)
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.)
Duchess Says (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Ducktails (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Elephant Micah (Bloomington, I.N.)
Escort (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
EXITmusic (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Feltbattery (Hillsborough, N.C.)
Field Report (Milwaukee, W.I.)
Flesh Wounds (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Flosstradamus (Chicago, I.L.)
Free Electric State (Durham, N.C.)
Frustrations (Detroit, M.I.)
G-Side (Huntsville, A.L.)
Glenn Jones (Jackson, F.L.)
Grohg (Raleigh, N.C.)
Gross Ghost (Carrboro, N.C.)
Guardian Alien (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Guinea Worms (Columbus, O.H.)
Hacienda (San Antonio, T.X.)
Heads On Sticks (Raleigh, N.C.)
High Wolf (Europe)
Hiss Golden Messenger (Durham, N.C.)
Holograms (Stockholm, Sweden)
Hubble (Berlin, Germany)
Hume (Washington, D.C.)
Hundred Waters (Gainesville, F.L.)
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, W.I.)
Julia Holter (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Kenny Roby (Raleigh, N.C.)
Kevin Drumm (Chicago, I.L.)
Lambchop (Nashville, T.N.)
Laurel Halo (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Lazy Janes (Raleigh, N.C.)
Left Outlet (Raleigh, N.C.)
Liars (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
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 (Yateley, Hampshire, England)
Mark McGuire (Cleveland, O.H.)
Matthew E. White (Richmond, V.A.)
Midtown Dickens (Durham, N.C.)
Minor Stars (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Mirel Wagner (Espoo, Finland)
My Best Fiend (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Nails (La Palma, C.A.)
Naked Gods (Boone, N.C.)
Nerves Junior (Louisville, K.Y.)
Nests (Raleigh, N.C.)
Nick Catchdubs (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
No BS! Brass Band (Richmond, V.A.)
NOBUNNY (Oakland, C.A.)
Odonis Odonis (Toronto, Canada)
Oneida (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Oren Ambarchi (Sydney, Australia)
Paint Fumes (Charlotte, N.C.)
Pallbearer (Little Rock, A.R.)
Papa M (David Pajo) (Philadelphia, P.A.)
Phil Cook & His Feat (Durham, N.C.)
Pipe (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Pop. 1280 (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Quiet Evenings (LaGrange, G.A.)
Roman Candle (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Roomrunner (Baltimore, M.D.)
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, M.D.)
Shark Quest (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Shirlette & The Dynamite Brothers (Durham, N.C.)
Shovels & Rope (Charleston, S.C.)
Silver Swans (San Francisco, C.A.)
Sinful Savage Tigers (Chapel Hill/ Durham, N.C.)
Sister Crayon (Sacramento, C.A.)
Some Army (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
STAG (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Starlings, TN (Austin, Texas)
Strand of Oaks (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Sunn O))) (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Sutekh Hexen (San Francisco, Calif.)
T0W3RS (Carrboro, N.C.)
Tenement (Appleton, W.I.)
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, P.A.)
The Spits (Seattle, W.A.)
The Toddlers (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
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.)
Withered (Atlanta, Ga.)
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.)