The initial list of names for Raleigh’s Hopscotch Music Festival was announced this morning, and holy shiz, we are excited! The Flaming Lips, GBV, and DBT lead the pack for the main stage, but there is a solid list of small-club headlining bands as well. And if things work they way they did last year, other major acts will be announced as we draw closer to September. NICE!
See below for the list thus far!
All Tiny Creatures (Madison, Wis.)
Andrew Cedermark (Charlottesville, Va.)
Annuals (Raleigh, N.C.)
Apache Dropout (Bloomington, Ind.)
Apex Manor (Pasadena, Calif.)
Apple Juice Kid (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Bandway (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
Barn Owl (San Francisco, Calif.)
Beach Fossils (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Beans (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Bird Peterson (Austin, Texas)
Black Lips (Atlanta, Ga.)
Black Twig Pickers (Ironto, Va.)
Bombadil (Durham, N.C.)
Braids (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Budos Band (Staten Island, N.Y.)
Bustello (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Caltrop (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Carlitta Durand (Durham, N.C.)
Cassis Orange (Carrboro, N.C.)
Charlie Smarts (New York, N.Y.)
Cheyenne Marie Mize (Louisville, Ky.)
Chip Robinson (Austin, Texas)
Cold Cave (New York, N.Y.)
D&D Sluggers (Wilmington, N.C.)
Dan Melchior Und Das Menace (Durham, N.C.)
David Daniell (Chicago, Ill.)
Dawn Golden and Rosy Cross (Chicago, Ill.)
Des Ark (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Dinosaur Feathers (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Disappears (Chicago, Ill.)
DJ Thien (Raleigh, N.C.)
Drive-By Truckers (Athens, Ga.)
Duane Pitre Sextet (New Orleans, La.)
Dustin Wong (Baltimore, Md.)
Dylan Gilbert (Charlotte, N.C.)
Earth (Seattle, Wash.)
Embarrassing Fruits (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Empress Hotel (New Orleans, La.)
Eric Carbonara & Jesse Sparhawk (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Family Dynamics (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Fight the Big Bull (Richmond, Va.)
Filthybird (Graham, N.C.)
Flight (Oxford, Miss.)
Ford & Lopatin (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Frank Fairfield (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Frontier Ruckus (Detroit, Mich.)
Future Islands (Baltimore, Md.)
Gauntlet Hair (Lafayette, Colo.)
Generationals (New Orleans, La.)
Grandchildren (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Gross Ghost (Carrboro, N.C.)
Guided by Voices (Dayton, Ohio)
Heads on Sticks (Raleigh, N.C.)
Hog (Durham, N.C.)
Horseback (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Invisible Hand (Charlottesville, Va.)
J Mascis (Amherst, Mass.)
Jack the Radio (Raleigh, N.C.)
Japandroids (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
JEFF The Brotherhood (Nashville, Tenn.)
Jennyanykind (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
John Vanderslice (San Francisco, Calif.)
Jon Lindsay (Charlotte, N.C.)
Julianna Barwick (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Justin Robinson and The Mary Annettes (Durham, N.C.)
King Mez (Raleigh, N.C.)
KORT (Nashville, Tenn.)
Krallice (New York, N.Y.)
L.E.G.A.C.Y. (Fayetteville, N.C.)
Last Year’s Men (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Le Weekend (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Little Scream (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Liturgy (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Lonnie Walker (Raleigh, N.C.)
Lost in the Trees (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Lower Dens (Baltimore, Md.)
Man Will Destroy Himself (Raleigh, N.C.)
Man/Miracle (Oakland, Calif.)
Mandolin Orange (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Mount Eerie (Anacortes, Wash.)
Mount Moriah (Durham, N.C.)
Mouthus (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Old Bricks (Carrboro, N.C.)
Oneohtrix Point Never (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Onward, Soldiers (Wilmington, N.C.)
Organos (Carrboro, N.C.)
Oulipo (Raleigh, N.C.)
Oxbow (San Francisco, Calif.)
PC Worship (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Peter Lamb and The Wolves (Raleigh, N.C.)
Prurient (New York, N.Y.)
Reading Rainbow (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Rhys Chatham (Paris, France)
Royal Bangs (Knoxville, Tenn.)
Royal Baths (San Francisco, Calif.)
Shit Horse (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Sir Richard Bishop (Oakland, Calif.)
Soft Company (Carrboro, N.C.)
SPCL GST (Raleigh, N.C.)
Spider Bags (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Steve Gunn (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Super Vacations (Norfolk, Va.)
Superchunk (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Swans (New York, N.Y.)
Tender Fruit (Carrboro, N.C.)
The Body (Providence, R.I.)
The Caribbean (Washington, D.C.)
The Dodos (San Francisco, Calif.)
The Flaming Lips (Oklahoma City, Okla.)
The Foreign Exchange (Durham, N.C.)
The Light Pines (Carrboro, N.C.)
The Loners (Raleigh, N.C.)
The Love Language (Raleigh, N.C.)
The Moderate (Washington, D.C.)
The Necks (Sydney, Australia)
The Old Ceremony (Durham, N.C.)
The Prayers and Tears (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
The Strugglers (Washington, D.C.)
The Tomahawks (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Toro Y Moi (Columbia, S.C.)
Twelve Thousand Armies (Carrboro, N.C.)
Twin Shadow (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Tyvek (Detroit, Mich.)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Portland, Ore.)
Weekend (San Francisco, Calif.)
Wembley (Hillsborough, N.C.)
Wesley Wolfe (Carrboro, N.C.)
Whatever Brains (Raleigh, N.C.)
William Tyler (Nashville, Tenn.)
Wooden Wand (Lexington, Ky.)
Woodsman (Denver, Colo.)