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| Raleigh goes wild for Hopscotch |
Staff Writer
Missing the summer already? Looking for fun in the bleak beginning of the school year? The Hopscotch Music Festival may be the answer you’re looking for. Next week you can attend the fourth annual Hopscotch Music Festival in Downtown Raleigh. The festival was founded in 2010 by local newspaper Independent Weekly and has been recognized nationally by many critics, including Azealia Banks of the New York Times who described the festival as being “wildly diverse”.
Hopscotch transcends many genres of music including Folk, Electronica, Rock, Pop, Drone, and Punk and has showcased many well known acts such as The Flaming Lips, Panda Bear, No Age, and Jesus and the Mary Chain. This year the festival will be headlined by UK psychedelic rock project Spritiualized, Los Angeles rapper and producer Earl Sweatshirt, and many others. The festival will also be hosting popular local acts such as Gross Ghost and Lonnie Walker as well as prolific Tennessee hardcore punk band The Oblivians.
The festival will last three days from September 5 to September 7. Single-day tickets are $40, however, if ticket prices are a little too steep for your taste you can catch a variety of free performances including the Hopscotch Rock & Roll Pizza Party at Slim’s on South Wilmington Street as well as many in-stores being hosted in Hillsborough Street’s Schoolkids Records and Sadlacks Hero’s.
