Hopscotch Festival 2013 lineup: Spiritualized, Big Boi, The Breeders, John Cale... El festival Hopscotch reveló el cartel de su edición 2013, que tendrá lugar del 5 al 7 de septiembre en distintos lugares en Raleigh, Carolina del Norte. El lineup incluye actos de Spiritualized, Big Boi, The Breeders (quienes tocarán completo el Last Splash), John Cale, Earl Sweatshirt, Local Natives, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Matthew Dear, Low, Sleep, Mikal Cronin, Action Bronson, Marnie Stern, Future Islands, Ryan Hemsworth, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Angel Olsen, The Rosebuds (quien tocará completo el [...]
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Hopscotch, the Raleigh, NC music festival, returns for its fourth year, running 9/5-7. Big Boi, Spiritualized, and the Breeders performing Last Splash , as well as Local Natives and Earl Sweatshirt will headline the festival. Other performers include Majical Cloudz, Waxahatchee, Action Bronson, Swearin', and more. Find tickets and more info on the festival here .
Maybe it's the "holiday spice" scent I've been spraying in my house or the copious amount of chai tea I've consumed today, but I'm giddy. Hopscotch gave everyone the gift today of announcing information about its fourth installment and will be spreading the cheer even more by giving away VIP tickets to the 2013 festival. Hopscotch will take place September 5-7, 2013 , which is the first weekend in September. Like this year, that also means First Friday activities will weave through the festival, creating an unforgettable arts-packed weekend in Raleigh, NC. Festival wristbands [...]
[Photos by acidjack] Our friends in Oneida were a late but welcome addition to the "Megafaun and Friends" day show at Hopscotch Music Festival , and as usual, nobody knew what to expect in terms of the setlist. Joined by a number of special guests throughout the set (including the ubiquitous man-of-the-festival, the drummer Chris Corsano), Oneida filled the streets of downtown Raleigh, NC with their complex improvisational post-rock. This three-part sequence was, as usual, an experimental journey in guitars and organs, anchored by the incomparable drumming of Kid Millions. As we eagerly await [...]
[Photo courtesy of Ash Crowe ] Correspondent David Schwentker reports: " There are bands of larger stature that emerged from the Triangle scene, but you'd have trouble finding one more beloved in the area than Pipe . For much of the 902s, Pipe played their brand of SST-inspired punk throughout the region, threatening to blow away all other bands on the bill. They toured with the likes of Archers of Loaf, New Bomb Turks, and Bad Brains, and released a handful of 73s and three great albums. Eventually, [...]
[Photos by acidjack] The young band The Invisible Hand hails from Charlottesville, VA, and with a lead singer named Adam Smith, yes, their name is an econ reference. But other than that, and one song called "Black Tie Formal", there's little in the way of college references here, and the band's sound has more to do with power pop and protopunk than the kinds of jams Charlottesville is normally associated with (I'm looking at you, Dave Matthews). The set opener, "Psychic Cat" was a caffeine jolt to the daytime crowd at this Hopscotch Music Festival [...]
[Photo copyright 2012 by Abby Nardo] I saw more incredible solo guitarists during the course of the Hopscotch Music Festival than I've seen in the rest of my life combined. Each man's style left an impression, from the psychedelic leanings of Ben Chasny to the Piedmont blues influences of Chuck Johnson. Of all of these distinct and excellent players, none had a style of purer beauty than Glenn Jones . A devoted fan of John Fahey , arguably the founder of the American Primitivism style of guitar, Jones spent decades playing self-made compositions [...]
[Photos by acidjack] The duo of the guitarist Steve Gunn and drummer John Truscinski, better known as Gunn-Truscinski Duo, was a perfect closer to the Three Lobed Recordings / WXDU Day Show during the Hopscotch Music Festival. The pair epitomizes some of the highlights of the Three Lobed aesthetic - rhythmically complex, guitar-based music with psychedelic overtones that occupies no obvious musical niche, that advances the state of its art while giving a subtle nod to its forebears. With no words sung during their set, it is still easy to locate Gunn-Truscinski as distinctly American; although [...]
[Photo by Agatha Donkar. Visit her website ] Matthew E. White has been one of the true musical sensations of 2012 so far. The Richmond, VA native has not only garnered praise from all quarters for his debut album Big Inner , a gumbo of 70s soul, rock, jazz, blues and roots influences (oh, and Randy Newman), but his live shows have already achieved cult status. Big Inner, released this year on the Hometapes imprint, is a lush, everything-but-the-kitchen-sin k production that pairs White with a choir, strings, [...]
[Photo by Jeremy D Larson. See his Flickr stream [ HERE ]] Oren Ambarchi was a very special pickup for this year's Hopscotch Music Festival . The world-renowned electronic guitarist and percussionist not only doesn't spend a ton of time touring stateside, but is an especially rare sight in North Carolina. A frequent collaborator with the band sunn O))) , Ambarchi's work stretches the limits of music and the guitar as conventionally understood, with stretched-out song structures that are more dissonant soundscapes than proper songs. Coming on at Memorial Auditorium just before sunn [...]
[Copyright 2012 by Abby Nardo] While Sunn O))) were blowing minds and eardrums next door in Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium, the Nashville band Lambchop gave this year's Hopscotch Music Festival a more quiet but no less satisfying valedictory. Responsible for what is widely hailed as a career-defining record this year ( Mr. M) Lambchop have little left to prove after a 20-year career, but clearly much left to give. Frontman Kurt Wagner and the band kept the volume in this moderately-sized opera house low for almost their entire set, and a rapt and respectful crowd set [...]
[Photos by acidjack] The guitarist Ben Chasny, who performs with various combinations of players as Six Organs of Admittance , was a late add to this year's Hopscotch Music Festival lineup, and a welcome one. Chasny, a veteran of the psych rock behemoth Comets On Fire, plays with a variety of approaches on the guitar; though he has been branded "new folk" in some quarters, that label hardly encompasses the wide range shown on Chasny's Six Organs output. His latest, Ascent , finds Chasny reunited with his Comets on Fire compatriots, with the heavier sound [...]
[Photo by Ross Grady] One of the many pleasures of heading down to Raleigh, NC for this year's Hopscotch Music Festival was the chance to see regional bands that aren't as readily available to see in New York. The Human Eyes were touted to me early on as a local favorite, and I can see why. At this DiggUp tapes day show at King's in downtown Raleigh, the band gave a crowd of current fans and newcomers like me a 40-minute set consisting of much of their still-fresh May 2012 debut release, [...]
[Photos by Josh Sisk ] It makes sense that s unn O))) are named after Sunn amps , because the many Sunn amps onstage with them get a punishing workout during their sets. Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium proved to be one of the most challenging rooms for bands at this year's Hopscotch Music Festival ; its size and cavernous design threatened to swallow the sound of several of the acts who played there. But for the doom metal pioneers and their slow, hypnotic wall of sound, the mid-sized auditorium was child's play. As they prefer [...]
[Photos by acidjack] Megafaun are one of several Triangle-area bands that have gone national recently, and they are also one of our personal favorites. Since being introduced to the band when they opened for fellow Triangle-area band The Mountain Goats, and our own Sharon Van Etten , we have followed their progress to becoming a headliner and national act in their own right with pleasure. But on their home turf, Megafaun aren't just an up-and-coming act from out of town; they are stars in their own right. The Americana-driven band was the centerpiece [...]
[Photo from the Three Lobed/WXDU show by Abby Nardo. All rights reserved.] The Nashville-based guitarist William Tyler was everywhere during this year's Hopscotch Music Festival . Much like improviser-in-residence Chris Corsano, festivalgoers might see Tyler pop onstage with any number of bands - and we saw his join several, including Megafaun and Hiss Golden Messenger , as well as his own Lambchop. But folks also know Tyler as a solo artist of some renown, especially after his 2010 full length, Behold the Spirit. Tyler's playing runs the gamut of influences, from [...]
Student Media photographers Katherine Hoke and Sam O’Brien went back downtown finish up the third annual Hopscotch Music Festival. View full screen
Wye Oak performing live at the Lincoln Theatre as part of the Merge Records showcase. Photo by Nick Johnston. So, another year, another HOPSCOTCH. This time around, the weather gods weren’t exactly... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .
Student Media photographers Katherine Hoke and Sam O'Brien went back downtown for Day Two of the third annual Hopscotch Music Festival.
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