Hopscotch Music Festival, called “America’s (Secretly) Best Festival” and “the premiere experimental and underground festival in America,” returns September 10-12, 2015. Today, the festival released its schedule, featuring 140 performances in 12 venues within a walkable footprint in downtown Raleigh, N.C. The first of three outdoor main stage nights in Raleigh City Plaza begins on Thursday, Sept. 10 with groundbreaking post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor headlining and Atlanta’s Deerhunter opening. Friday, Sept. 11 will be headlined by the Grammy nominated TV on the Radio, with California’s Tycho in direct support. Durham’s Carlitta Durand will open. On Saturday, Sept. 12, country pioneer Dwight Yoakam will headline along with legendary Los Angeles band X who will open. Two local favorites, American Aquarium and The Vibekillers, round out the 4-band bill.

Along with the City Plaza main stage shows, attendees will bounce between 11 indoor venues: CAM Raleigh, Deep South the Bar, Fletcher Opera Theater, Kennedy Theater, Kings Barcade, Neptune’s, Pour House Music Hall, The Lincoln Theatre, Tir na nOg, Slim’s, and Vintage 21. From bars to concert halls to a church, these venues link together to create Hopscotch’s unique setting, one that utilizes Raleigh’s existing infrastructure. The indoor sets reflect Hopscotch’s reputation for programming an eclectic and unconventional weekend, one that showcases the likes of Virginia rapper Pusha T, Texas psych legend Roky Erickson, alt-country rocker Lydia Loveless, far out Brooklynites Zs, and electronic voyager Clark, all alongside a selection of compelling North Carolina bands.

TICKETS

All remaining VIP and 3-Day passes, now along with 1-Day passes and Single City Plaza headlining show tickets, are on sale here.

2015 LINEUP

Ace Henderson, Acid Chaperone, Advaeta, American Aquarium, Ameriglow, Bandages, Battles, Big Ups, Birds of Avalon, Black Clouds, Blaxxx, Booher, Boulevards, Breathers, Brief Lives, Bully, Cakes Da Killa, Carlitta Durand, Cashmere Cat, Chaz French, Chelsea Wolfe, Choked Out, Chulo, Clark, Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Dad & Dad, Daniel Romano, Deerhunter, DJ Earl, Dorthia Cottrell, Drippy Inputs, Dwight Yoakam, Echo Courts, Elisa Ambrogio, Escher, EYEHATEGOD, Eyes Low, Father, FAULTS, Flock of Dimes, Fórn, Godflesh, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, GoldLink, Grand Champeen, Grandma Sparrow, Hank Wood & The Hammerheads, Hanz, HeCTA, Ian William Craig, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Jenks Miller & Rose Cross NC, Jenny Hval, Jessica Pratt, John Chantler, Jubilee, Keath Mead, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Las Rosas, Lawrence English, Le1F, Leapling, Less Western, Leverage Models, Lilac Shadows, Lizzo, Lost Trail, Loud Boyz, Lud, Luxe Posh, Lydia Loveless, Mac McCaughan, Mamiffer, Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler, May Erwin, Microkingdom, Mitski, Moenda, Moon Duo, Morbids, Mumdance, Must Be The Holy Ghost, Naked Naps, Natalie Prass and the Spacebomb Orchestra, Nathan Golub, Natural Causes, New Music Raleigh: Music by Oscar Bettison and Evan Ziporyn, Nick James, No Love, Nocando, Nots, Obey City, OBN IIIs, Old Man Gloom, Oulipo, Outer Spaces, Owen Pallett, Patois Counselors, Peacers, Phil Cook presents Southland Mission, Pile, Pill, Porches., Prurient, Pusha T, River Whyless, Roky Erickson, Sannhet, Sarah Louise, Secret Boyfriend, Sheer Mag, Shitty Boots, Silent Lunch, SkyBlew, SMLH, Solar Halos, Some Army, Soon, Steve Gunn & The Black Twig Pickers, Tashi Dorji, The Vibekillers, thefacesblur, Tombs, TV on the Radio, Tycho, TZYVYX, Wahyas, Warehouse, Wildhoney, Wizard Rifle, Wovenhand, WYMYNS PRYSYN, X, Yandrew, Zack Mexico, Zeena Parkins, Zs

SECOND ANNUAL HOPSCOTCH DESIGN FESTIVAL, SEPT. 9-10

Hopscotch Design Festival—a partnership between Hopscotch Music Festival and New Kind—gathers prominent thinkers, makers, and storytellers to share ideas and foster conversations about how design is shaping the future. It features national and local presenters who work across graphic design, urban planning, user experience design, technology, architecture, music, food, film, and more. Hopscotch Design is a two-day festival of interactive sessions, workshops, and parties taking place in multiple venues in downtown Raleigh, Sept. 9-10. Last September, Hopscotch Design Festival was the first event of its kind in North Carolina and, as Sarah Lawrence from Paste said, it “showed Raleigh’s ability to draw some of the best designers in the country.” Tickets to the 2015 Hopscotch Design Festival will go on sale soon. For the latest updates, visit the website.