Last year’s inaugural Hopscotch Music Festival was a booming success, showcasing some of the nation’s best up-and-coming indie artists during a three-day stretch across downtown Raleigh. The excitement continued to grow during the Winter as Hopscotch organizers planned their sophomore event (September 8, 9, 10). Last night the official lineup was announced , and it appears the gang is picking up right where they left off last year.

The Flaming Lips and Guided By Voices will carry headlining shows, however other great bands such as Drive-By-Truckers, Superchunk, The Dodos, Japandroids, J Mascis, John Vanderclice, Bandway, and many, many, many more!

Some fantastic ticket packages are now available (all show pass tiers will sell out, so don’t delay).

• VIP – 3-day pass includes admission to all club shows, both headlining nights at City Plaza, exclusive VIP entrance to the shows, and admission to the VIP opening night reception. $155
• All-Show – 3-day pass includes admission to all club and headlining shows. $105
• All-Club – 3-day pass includes admission to all club shows. $65
• City Plaza Friday – includes admission only to the City Plaza Friday show (Guided By Voices, Drive-By Truckers, The Dodos). $32
• City Plaza Saturday – includes admission only to the City Plaza Saturday show (The Flaming Lips, Superchunk, The Light Pines). $34

There will be smartphone apps for the event, and gogoraleigh will, as always, create a special Google Calendar for the events including set times, locations, links to maps of the location, and links to the artists websites.

Here is the full lineup of bands:

• All Tiny Creatures (Madison, Wis.)
• Andrew Cedermark (Charlottesville, Va.)
• Annuals (Raleigh, N.C.)
• Apache Dropout (Bloomington, Ind.)
• Apex Manor (Pasadena, Calif.)
• Apple Juice Kid (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Bandway (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
• Barn Owl (San Francisco, Calif.)
• Beach Fossils (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
• Beans (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
• Bird Peterson (Austin, Texas)
• Black Lips (Atlanta, Ga.)
• Black Twig Pickers (Ironto, Va.)
• Bombadil (Durham, N.C.)
• Braids (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
• Budos Band (Staten Island, N.Y.)
• Bustello (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Caltrop (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Carlitta Durand (Durham, N.C.)
• Cassis Orange (Carrboro, N.C.)
• Charlie Smarts (New York, N.Y.)
• Cheyenne Marie Mize (Louisville, Ky.)
• Chip Robinson (Austin, Texas)
• Cold Cave (New York, N.Y.)
• D&D Sluggers (Wilmington, N.C.)
• Dan Melchior Und Das Menace (Durham, N.C.)
• David Daniell (Chicago, Ill.)
• Dawn Golden and Rosy Cross (Chicago, Ill.)
• Des Ark (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• Dinosaur Feathers (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
• Disappears (Chicago, Ill.)
• DJ Thien (Raleigh, N.C.)
• Drive-By Truckers (Athens, Ga.)

• Duane Pitre Sextet (New Orleans, La.)
• Dustin Wong (Baltimore, Md.)
• Dylan Gilbert (Charlotte, N.C.)
• Earth (Seattle, Wash.)
• Embarrassing Fruits (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Empress Hotel (New Orleans, La.)
• Eric Carbonara & Jesse Sparhawk (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• Family Dynamics (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
• Fight the Big Bull (Richmond, Va.)
• Filthybird (Graham, N.C.)
• Flight (Oxford, Miss.)
• Ford & Lopatin (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
• Frank Fairfield (Los Angeles, Calif.)
• Frontier Ruckus (Detroit, Mich.)
• Future Islands (Baltimore, Md.)
• Gauntlet Hair (Lafayette, Colo.)
• Generationals (New Orleans, La.)
• Grandchildren (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• Gross Ghost (Carrboro, N.C.)
• Guided by Voices (Dayton, Ohio)
• Heads on Sticks (Raleigh, N.C.)
• Hog (Durham, N.C.)
• Horseback (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Invisible Hand (Charlottesville, Va.)
• J Mascis (Amherst, Mass.)
• Jack the Radio (Raleigh, N.C.)
• Japandroids (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
• JEFF The Brotherhood (Nashville, Tenn.)
• Jennyanykind (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• John Vanderslice (San Francisco, Calif.)
• Jon Lindsay (Charlotte, N.C.)
• Julianna Barwick (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
• Justin Robinson and The Mary Annettes (Durham, N.C.)

• King Mez (Raleigh, N.C.)
• KORT (Nashville, Tenn.)
• Krallice (New York, N.Y.)
• L.E.G.A.C.Y. (Fayetteville, N.C.)
• Last Year’s Men (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Le Weekend (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Little Scream (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
• Liturgy (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
• Lonnie Walker (Raleigh, N.C.)
• Lost in the Trees (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Lower Dens (Baltimore, Md.)
• Man Will Destroy Himself (Raleigh, N.C.)
• Man/Miracle (Oakland, Calif.)
• Mandolin Orange (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Mount Eerie (Anacortes, Wash.)
• Mount Moriah (Durham, N.C.)
• Mouthus (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
• Old Bricks (Carrboro, N.C.)
• Oneohtrix Point Never (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
• Onward, Soldiers (Wilmington, N.C.)
• Organos (Carrboro, N.C.)
• Oulipo (Raleigh, N.C.)
• Oxbow (San Francisco, Calif.)
• PC Worship (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
• Peter Lamb and The Wolves (Raleigh, N.C.)
• Prurient (New York, N.Y.)
• Reading Rainbow (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• Rhys Chatham (Paris, France)
• Royal Bangs (Knoxville, Tenn.)
• Royal Baths (San Francisco, Calif.)
• Shit Horse (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Sir Richard Bishop (Oakland, Calif.)
• Soft Company (Carrboro, N.C.)

• SPCL GST (Raleigh, N.C.)
• Spider Bags (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Steve Gunn (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
• Super Vacations (Norfolk, Va.)
• Superchunk (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Swans (New York, N.Y.)
• Tender Fruit (Carrboro, N.C.)
• The Body (Providence, R.I.)
• The Caribbean (Washington, D.C.)
• The Dodos (San Francisco, Calif.)
• The Flaming Lips (Oklahoma City, Okla.)
• The Foreign Exchange (Durham, N.C.)
• The Light Pines (Carrboro, N.C.)
• The Loners (Raleigh, N.C.)
• The Love Language (Raleigh, N.C.)
• The Moderate (Washington, D.C.)
• The Necks (Sydney, Australia)
• The Old Ceremony (Durham, N.C.)
• The Prayers and Tears (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• The Strugglers (Washington, D.C.)
• The Tomahawks (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Toro Y Moi (Columbia, S.C.)
• Twelve Thousand Armies (Carrboro, N.C.)
• Twin Shadow (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
• Tyvek (Detroit, Mich.)
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Portland, Ore.)
• Weekend (San Francisco, Calif.)
• Wembley (Hillsborough, N.C.)
• Wesley Wolfe (Carrboro, N.C.)
• Whatever Brains (Raleigh, N.C.)
• William Tyler (Nashville, Tenn.)
• Wooden Wand (Lexington, Ky.)
• Woodsman (Denver, Colo.)