Hopscotch Fest returns to Raleigh (2011 lineup announced), Sharon Van Etten officially added to Northside Fest

The second annual Hopscotch Festival will go down in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, across 12 different venues with over 135 bands, from September 8th through 10th. The lineup this year runs the gamut of independent music… from traditional indie staples (The Flaming Lips, Guided By Voices, Superchunk) to southern-inflected rock (Drive-By Truckers) to noise (Prurient) to hip hop (Beans) to garage (Jeff The Brotherhood) to funk (Budos Band) to metal (Krallice), and everywhere in between (Swans, Rhys Chatham, etc etc). Tickets are currently on sale. Full lineup is below.

Hopscotch happens almost three months after Guided By Voices play a Brooklyn Northside Festival show in McCarren Park (tickets) which is one day after Beirut plays a Northside Festival show on the same McCarren Park stage with… Sharon Van Etten (though she may have been accidentally announced at one point, they officially kept her placement on the bill under wraps until after Saturday’s Music Hall of Williamsburg show). Tickets for Beirut/SVE are still on sale, and another opener will be added too.

Guided by Voices (whose Brooklyn show also has more openers coming) are also playing Pitchfork in July with Animal Collective whose Prospect Park show is now on AmEx presale.

Swans‘ upcoming NYC show is now on AmEx presale too.

Hopscotch lineup below…

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HOPSCOTCH 2011 LINEUP
All Tiny Creatures
Andrew Cedermark
Annuals
Apache Dropout
Apex Manor
Apple Juice Kid
Bandway
Barn Owl
Beach Fossils
Beans
Bird Peterson
Black Lips
Black Twig Pickers
Bombadil
Braids
Budos Band
Bustello
Caltrop
Carlitta Durand
Cassis Orange
Charlie Smarts
Cheyenne Marie Mize
Chip Robinson
Cold Cave
D&D Sluggers
Dan Melchior Und Das Menace
David Daniell
Dawn Golden and Rosy Cross
Des Ark
Dinosaur Feathers
Disappears
DJ Thien
Drive-By Truckers
Duane Pitre Sextet
Dustin Wong
Dylan Gilbert
Earth
Embarrassing Fruits
Empress Hotel
Eric Carbonara & Jesse Sparhawk
Family Dynamics
Fight the Big Bull
Filthybird
Flight
Ford & Lopatin
Frank Fairfield
Frontier Ruckus
Future Islands
Gauntlet Hair
Generationals
Grandchildren
Gross Ghost
Guided by Voices
Heads on Sticks
Hog
Horseback
Invisible Hand
J Mascis
Jack the Radio
Japandroids
JEFF The Brotherhood
Jennyanykind
John Vanderslice
Jon Lindsay
Julianna Barwick
Justin Robinson and The Mary Annettes
King Mez
KORT
Krallice
L.E.G.A.C.Y.
Last Year’s Men
Le Weekend
Little Scream
Liturgy
Lonnie Walker
Lost in the Trees
Lower Dens
Man Will Destroy Himself
Man/Miracle
Mandolin Orange
Mount Eerie
Mount Moriah
Mouthus
Old Bricks
Oneohtrix Point Never
Onward, Soldiers
Organos
Oulipo
Oxbow
PC Worship
Peter Lamb and The Wolves
Prurient
Reading Rainbow
Rhys Chatham
Royal Bangs
Royal Baths
Shit Horse
Sir Richard Bishop
Soft Company
SPCL GST
Spider Bags
Steve Gunn
Super Vacations
Superchunk
Swans
Tender Fruit
The Body
The Caribbean
The Dodos
The Flaming Lips
The Foreign Exchange
The Light Pines
The Loners
The Love Language
The Moderate
The Necks
The Old Ceremony
The Prayers and Tears
The Strugglers
The Tomahawks
Toro Y Moi
Twelve Thousand Armies
Twin Shadow
Tyvek
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Weekend
Wembley
Wesley Wolfe
Whatever Brains
William Tyler
Wooden Wand
Woodsman