Holy guacamole. The Hopscotch Music Fest in Raleigh is not playing around.
Maybe it speaks to Raleigh's musical history or Grayson Currin's upward climb on the Pitchfork ladder, not really sure, but they turned in a dandy of a lineup for the Sept. 9-11 fest that hardly anyone can complain about.
Relevant national acts?
Public Enemy, Panda Bear and Broken Social Scene will headline, with this being one of only two Panda Bear shows this year. The Rosebuds, The Love Language and No Age will open for those bands on each night of the fest.
Others include Atlas Sound, a return of Harvey Milk, Lucero, Pattern is Movement, Tortoise.
Flavors of the week?
How bout Cults, Javelin, Future Islands, Akron/Family and Washed Out...
Respect for locals?
In addition to the plum spots for The Rosebuds and The Love Language, local acts are well-represented, including Midtown Dickens, Megafaun, Hammer No More The Fingers, I Was Totally Destroying It, Gray Young, The Kingsbury Manx, American Aquarium plus a whole lotta many more.
According to Indy Week, authors and musicians will be talking, such as @1000timesyes Twit-maker Christopher Weingarten discussing his book about Public Enemy.
Tickets are a little to a lot and go on sale tomorrow at www.hopscotchfest.com and all the bands can be found after the jump...
9th Wonder & Friends, Active Child, Actual Proof, Akron/Family, All Tiny Creatures, American Aquarium, Americans in France, Atlas Sound, Balmorhea, Bear in Heaven, Best Coast, Big Remo, Birds of Avalon, Black Congo NC, DJ George Brazil, Broken Social Scene, Brutal Knights, Richard Buckner, Burning Star Core, Cannabis Corpse, Caitlin Cary’s Small Ponds with Tres Chicas, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Cults, Greg Davis, Dex Romweber Duo, Double Dagger, Double Negative, The Dynamite Brothers, EAR PWR, ExMonkeys, First Rate People, Followed by Static, Ben Frost, Fucked Up, Future Islands, Golden Boys, The Golden Filter, Goner, Gray Young, Ryan Gustafson, Hammer No More the Fingers, Harlem, Harvey Milk, Horseback, John Howie Jr. & The Rosewood Bluff, I Was Totally Destroying It, Javelin, Jeb Bishop Trio, Juan Huevos, Kaze, Kill the Noise, The Kingsbury Manx, Kooley High, Kylesa, The Light Pines, Lonnie Walker, The Love Language, Lucero, Luego, Max Indian, Erin McKeown, Megafaun, Midtown Dickens, The Moaners, The Monologue Bombs, Motor Skills, Mountains, Jon Mueller, Marissa Nadler, No Age, NOMO, Ocean, Old Bricks, Panda Bear, Pattern Is Movement, Pictureplane, Plague, Pontiak, Public Enemy, Rapsody, The Remix Project, The Rosebuds, Schooner, Sightings, Skyzoo, Spclgst, Spider Bags, Thee Tom Hardy, Thien, Tigercity, Tortoise, Treasure Fingers, US Christmas, Sharon Van Etten, Veelee, Vincent Black Shadow, War on Drugs, Washed Out, Weedeater, Whatever Brains, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Tyler Woods, Yip-Yip
What does everybody think?
Good for Raleigh?
Were the Dirty Projectors, Vamp Wknd, Grizzly Bear too big time?
More after the jump...
