09 May 2016
Hopscotch Festival Coverage to Date
Hopscotch 2012 Part 1: Zammuto, Built to Spill Part 2: The Jesus and Mary Chain Part 3: Field Report, Azure Ray Part 4: The dB’s Hopscotch 2013 Preview Part 1: […]
12 Sep 2013
Hopscotch Festival Part 3: The Breeders and John Cale
Saturday was the third and final night of Hopscotch 2013, and our second night. Equipped with a more realistic game plan, we ventured forth with plans to take in a […]
11 Sep 2013
Hopscotch Festival Part 2: Rose Windows
Maybe it’s something to do with the soggy Pacific Northwest climate, but there have been a number of bands coming out of the region who play a sort of tribal-psych […]
10 Sep 2013
Hopscotch Festival Part 1: Brett Harris, Mikal Cronin
“Best-laid plans of mice and men oft go astray,” wrote Robert Burns (and not, as I had thought, Shakespeare, though he wrote pretty much every other quotable quote). My significant […]
06 Sep 2013
Festival Preview: Hopscotch 2013
Today I’m headed on a road trip to Raleigh, NC for my second Hopscotch Festival. As with last year, I plan on taking in shows by a variety of undiscovered, […]
13 Sep 2012
Concert Review: Hopscotch Festival, Part 4 – The dB’s
In one sense, the Long View Center is an ideal venue to catch a show: unobstructed lines of sight, comfortable seats, and – best of all – a building purpose-built […]
12 Sep 2012
Concert Review: Hopscotch Festival, Part 3 – Field Report, Azure Ray
I had hoped to catch a few minutes of Yo La Tengo‘s 11:30 set at Memorial Auditorium, but (a) that venue was in the wrong direction and (b) The dB‘s […]
11 Sep 2012
Concert Review: Hopscotch Festival, Part 2 – The Jesus and Mary Chain
A bit after 9pm, The Jesus and Mary Chain took the stage. Though I bought Psychocandy on vinyl upon its original release (1985), this was another band I had never […]
10 Sep 2012
Concert Review: Hopscotch Festival, Part 1 – Zammuto, Built to Spill
The Hopscotch Festival was a three-day event (September 6-8, 2012), but my schedule only allowed me to make a single-day trip to the festival in Raleigh, NC. I made the […]
22 Jul 2020
Nest Egg: Straight-ahead Yet Twisting
A global pandemic may have temporarily taken live music off the stage, but creative endeavors continue apace. Right on the heels of a live set released in March, Nest Egg […]