Seriously. The White Octave got back together.

I hope they tour

4/25/2014 8:11:31 PM

Huh, which Death? The protopunk band or the metal band? I guess both could be feasible.

4/26/2014 1:54:29 PM

The Death made up of black dudes from Detroit.

Not the Death made up of white dudes from Orlando.

4/26/2014 7:15:58 PM

De La Soul playing City Plaza Thursday night

4/29/2014 1:14:25 PM

not only did they announce some rap acts, they got De La Soul to headline a Thursday City Plaza set

nice

4/29/2014 1:15:40 PM

the website got all fancy too

4/29/2014 1:55:31 PM

too bad it's now impossible to look at more than a handful of bands in the lineup at a time (except in the poster, of course)

4/29/2014 4:12:01 PM

De La Soul has evolved a lot and have moved pretty far away from the happy, sillier hip-hop they did on their first several albums. Do they still perform a lot of their older music, I wonder?

4/29/2014 4:31:20 PM

I had never heard of "The Death made up of black dudes from Detroit."

This song is pretty awesome

5/1/2014 9:20:08 AM

^yeah, i like a lot of their music. they formed in 1971. there was a good documentary on them made last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDPDm9_nX0o

5/1/2014 9:39:42 AM

I just watched the documentary on Netflix. What an amazing story. Would be cool if Rough Francis got added to the lineup as well.

But yeah I think that was probably the best music documentary I've ever seen.

5/1/2014 2:43:32 PM

excited for the war on drugs return to hopscotch.

5/9/2014 5:56:01 PM

Bought my ticket for the Mastodon/Death/Valient Thorr plaza show

5/28/2014 11:10:08 AM

gonna be a whole lotta hanging out at CAM this year

7/22/2014 1:44:39 PM

Wow, lots of good acts all going thursday night around midnight. I wish a couple of those had been on the friday lineup instead. Friday seems pretty weak by comparison (not counting the city plaza show obviously.)

7/22/2014 3:22:30 PM

no kidding... I had War on Drugs, Mutual Benefit, and Lunice all on my list. not fair to have to pick just one out of those.

7/22/2014 5:46:48 PM

Quote :

"gonna be a whole lotta hanging out at CAM this year"

yes. also, why can't they make the schedule so it fits one page and i don't have to scroll?

7/22/2014 6:33:21 PM

^^yeah War on Drugs, Reptar, and Mutual Benefit were all very high on my list. I think I'll try to go to Reptar and then make it to War on Drugs asap. VIP should help there, assuming Lincoln Theatre isn't at full capacity by then.

CAM does look pretty decent for Friday night though. Like what I've heard from Gems and Mas Ysa so far.

7/23/2014 10:22:42 PM

any suggestions on where to end the night on Friday? was thinking about potty mouth @ slims but I'm not crazy about the venue

7/24/2014 2:31:24 PM

Sun Kil Moon should be incredible, but it might not be everyone's speed.

I've seen Potty Mouth a number of times, and they're good, but I wouldn't necessarily go out of your way to see them.

Priests, on the other, are similar to Potty Mouth stylistically, but are a phenomenal live band.

7/24/2014 2:38:28 PM

thanks. priests sound like great fun.

7/25/2014 6:39:18 AM

my press pass is all worked out and i'm stoked. been researching and getting increasingly excited about the lineup

^^I have a hard time getting past Carissa on Sun Kil Moon's Benji. Is all of his stuff so on the nose and corny?

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8/24/2014 7:57:42 PM

No - this album is a lot more prose-y from a lyrical standpoint and I think it works really well for this particular record. But then again Benji is one of my favorite records of the year so our opinions may vary widely...however just between proper LPs with Sun Kil Moon, Red House Painters, and under his own name he has written 17 albums I think so it's hard to say how 'all' of his stuff is. I think a lot of it is excellent but ymmv


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8/24/2014 8:49:40 PM

Oh okay thanks.

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8/25/2014 6:01:53 PM

Does anyone know how much tickets to Kennedy Theater will be and whether they will be sold at the door? Thanks.

8/28/2014 4:19:27 PM

You can't buy individual club show tickets. They stopped that after year two or three. Closest you can get is buying a one day pass for the night you want to see.

8/28/2014 7:07:21 PM

Reminder that Krallice played hopscotch. That shit still blows my mind.

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8/28/2014 7:14:52 PM

^^

Thanks for the info.

8/29/2014 12:38:03 AM

anyone have the link to the schedule in PDF format? seems like it's on the desktop version of the website and Chrome refuses to show the website in desktop version

9/2/2014 12:20:44 PM

Here ya go bud

http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/hopscotch-fest/music-fest/news/2014_Schedule.pdf

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9/2/2014 12:33:11 PM

thx mane

9/2/2014 12:34:11 PM

I went to school with some of the guys from Young Cardinals, they're not bad

9/3/2014 2:54:16 PM

Considering going out on saturday - don't want to go by myself, though

9/3/2014 4:19:58 PM

who is everyone seeing tonight? beyond ending with thurston and the war on drugs, i haven't really decided.

9/4/2014 2:14:16 PM

Ed Sharader's Music Beat -> Saint Rich -> War on Drugs

that's the plan, at least

9/4/2014 2:48:31 PM

holy shit i got drenched last night. fun way to kick things off. war on drugs were unbelievably good.

9/5/2014 10:36:25 AM

If anyone wants to buy a weekend pass for this thing holla at me

9/5/2014 10:55:32 AM

I saw De La Soul -> Strange Faces -> Blanko Basnet (awesome) -> Saint Rich -> The War on Drugs.

Everyone was good. Tops probably goes to War on Drugs and Blanko Basnet. VIP has already been worth it. I never would have made it into War on Drugs without it with the line that was there.

Still deciding what to see for tonight after City Plaza. Half tempted to just stay at CAM until Sun Kil Moon.

9/5/2014 12:35:35 PM

Might be the best St. Vincent set I've seen. A tie with Cradle in '12 if anything.

Priests are so fucking good.

9/6/2014 2:24:38 AM

I enjoyed Saint Rich at Tir Na Nog Thursday

9/6/2014 2:27:51 AM

Circuit Des Yeux was amazing, but Tir Na Nog was horrendous during her set. So much talking. She should've been at vintage 21.

I've been making polaroids of a bunch of bands http://instagram.com/p/slft9PsmhQ/

9/6/2014 3:03:06 AM

Priests were absolutely fantastic

9/6/2014 8:38:44 AM

heard that Sun Kil Moon didn't exactly kil it, but I was too busy seeing better acts like Priests instead. here's Mark Kozelek being an endearing dude (who really should have been scheduled for Fletcher, but still):
http://instagram.com/p/smFrOkzfpP/

9/6/2014 9:50:11 AM

If anyone has any tickets for sale, let me know. Interested in (1) or (2)potentially.

9/6/2014 10:10:32 AM

Who is going to Mastodon?

9/6/2014 5:51:15 PM

You guys.

PRINCE FUCKING RAMA.

Also, What Cheer? Brigade spilling into Martin Street for a singalong was a perfect festival ending.

9/7/2014 3:23:27 AM

Mastodon was great, especially closing with Hearts Alive!

Valient Thorr was great as always too

9/7/2014 9:28:44 PM

Going to try to rank the performances I saw:

St. Vincent
Phosphorescent
The War on Drugs
Ryley Walker
Blanko Basnet
De La Soul
Freeman
Saint Rich
Spoon
Loamlands
Alexandra Sauser-Monnig
Strange Faces
Sinners & Saints
Lonnie Walker
Sun Kil Moon


I like Lonnie Walker, but that wasn't their greatest set. They also got cut off mid song for going over. I thought Spoon was good, but they basically just got up there and played. St. Vincent killed it, so I think anyone that followed that was doomed to be underwhelming. Sun Kil Moon was hilariously awkward http://pitchfork.com/news/56588-mark-kozelek-tells-fucking-hillbilly-audience-to-shut-the-fuck-up/. I hate when people talk at shows and wish they'd have shut up too, but he handled it like such a tool. I had never heard of Ryley Walker, but that set was insanely entertaining. I skipped the city plaza show to go to the football game.

9/8/2014 12:18:34 PM

I think certain bands demand attention, and it is hard to even want to talk over them. That being said, if you're a musician how do you not understand that 25% of people at your show are probably wasted any given night. Its not an insult. They came to see you (or someone told them to come along), but in reality, get over yourself and let people have fun. If they don't like your music they will leave. I know because it happens all the time to me :^)

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9/8/2014 12:35:52 PM

My faves were probably Phosphorescent, Circuit Des Yeux (who could teach Sun Kil Moon a thing or two about silencing a bar), and ESMB.

Ed was dope as fuck as always . I think I was standing near/beside vinylbandit. I also made a kind of funny portrait of them before the show.

That night at CAM my friend got blackout, incoherently drunk, so that was no fun. Had to leave after Yvette because I thought he was dead in a random hotel we were not staying at.

I skipped Prince Rama because A) They remind me of a Partywave band from when I lived in Miami and I sadly can't get over it, and B) I live in NY so I can probably see them kind of whenever. Went to Phosphorescent instead and it was truly lovely, and a great way to end the fest. His crowd banter is so endearing and adorable. Ryley Walker seemed really rad but only caught his last couple songs.

I almost never enjoy the main stage acts, but thought Spoon was okay/good and Mastodon might be the first one I've completely liked, despite not being very familiar with them. Death was kind of embarrassing Relief! Relief! Relief! Rock and Roll! Aahh!


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9/8/2014 12:47:38 PM