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Jesus and Mary Chain, Roots Will Headline Hopscotch Fest

The Roots / Photo by Lloyd Bishop/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank

Raleigh, North Carolina’s alt weekly The Independent Weekly has announced the lineup for their third-ever Hopscotch Music Festival, led this year by the Roots and the Jesus and Mary Chain, as well as Built to Spill, Yo La Tengo, Liars, Sunn O))) and Zola Jesus. Other notable acts on the bill include recently grown-up Danny Brown, SPIN’s favorite anarcho-punk rappers Death Grips, the Raleigh gang of Justin Vernon-associated artists Megafaun, Colin Stetson and Field Report, and plenty of Merge Records mainstays like the Mountain Goats, Lambchop, and Wye Oak.

The 175-artist bill will take the stages September 6-8 (convenient for festival-going diehards wrapping it up at Chicago’s North Coast Festival over Labor Day weekend) and tickets are currently on sale via the festival website. Hopscotch three-day VIP tickets run $169, which is a little more than half the price of a regular three-day Coachella wristband. The full lineup is below, in diplomatic, alphabetical order:

Hopscotch 2012 Announced Lineup:
Airstrip
Altar of Plagues
Altos
Alvarius B
Amen Dunes
Arnold Dreyblatt & Megafaun
Balam Acab
Baroness
Big Troubles
Bill Orcutt
Bio Ritmo
Birds of Avalon
Black Skies
Boy Friend
Built to Spill
Burglar Fucker
Calico Haunts
Cantwell
Gomez & Jordan
Carlos Giffoni
Charlie Parr
Charles Latham
Cheater Slicks
Chelsea Crowell
Chris Corsano
Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp
Chuck Johnson
Cities Aviv
Class Actress
CO LA
Colin Stetson
Corrosion of Conformity
Curtis Eller,Damien Jurado
Dan Deacon
Danny Brown
David Pajo/Papa M
Death Grips
Deerhoof
Delicate Steve
Doldrums
Donovan Quinn
Dope Body
Drique London
Duchess Says
Ducktails
Elephant Micah
Escort
EXITmusic
feltbattery
Field Report
Flesh Wounds
Flosstradamus
Free Electric State
Frustrations
G-Side
Glenn Jones
Grohg
Gross Ghost
Guardian Alien
Guinea Worms
Hacienda
Heads on Sticks
High Wolf
Hiss Golden Messenger
Holograms
Hubble (Lag World Premiere)
Hume
Hundred Waters
ITAL
J. Roddy Walston & the Business
Jacaszek
Jackie Chain
Jane Jane Pollock
Jason Kutchma & the 5 Fifths
Jenny Besetzt
Joint D?
Jon Mueller’s Death Blues
Julia Holter
Kenny Roby
Kevin Drumm
Lambchop
Lazy Janes
Laurel Halo
Left Outlet
Liars
Lilac Shadows
Lizzy Ross Band
Little Hollow
Mac McCaughan
Marc McGuire
MAKE
Matthew E. White: One Incantation Under God
Mark Holland
Midtown Dickens
Minor Stars
Mirel Wagner
My Best Fiend
Nails
Naked Gods
Nerves Junior
Nests
Nick Catchdubs
No BS Brass Band
Nobunny
Odonis Odonis
Oneida
Oren Ambarchi
Paint Fumes
Pallbearer
Phil Cook & His Feat
Pipe
Pop. 1280
Quiet Evenings
Roman Candle
Roomrunner
Samantha Crain
Savage Knights
Say Brother
Screaming Females
Secret Cities
Secret Mountains
Shark Quest
Shirlette & the Dynamite Brothers
Shovels & Rope
Silver Swans
Sinful Savage Tigers
Sister Crayon
Some Army
STAG
Starlings
TN
Strand of Oaks
Sunn O)))
Sutekh Hexen
T0W3RS
Tomas Phillips & Craig Hilton
Tom Maxwell
Tenement
Thee Oh Sees
The Atlas Moth
the band in Heaven
The Beast
The Beat Report
The Bronzed Chorus
The dB’s
The Future Kings of Nowhere
The Hot at Nights
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Mountain Goats
The Roots
The Spits
The Toddlers
Toon & The Real Laww
The Weather Station
Valient Thorr
Vattnet Viskar
Versus
Whatever Brains
White Hills
Withered
Wood Ear
Work Clothes
Wowser Bowser
Wye Oak
Wylie Hunter & the Cazadores
Yo La Tengo
Young and in the Way
Young Magic
Zack Mexico
Zammuto
Zeus
Zola Jesus