Hopscotch Music Festival 2018

For nearly a decade, Hopscotch Music Festival has successfully culminated a wide swath of musical talent to perform across downtown Raleigh, North Carolina's myriad of amphitheaters, clubs, and bars. This year brought the hallucinatory spectacle of The Flaming Lips, a rebirth of the decade's-dormant rock group MC5, the cavernous and grandiose arrangements of Grizzly Bear, and a founding father of funk, Nile Rodgers to the main stages while indie rock staples, buzzworthy outfits, and a wealth of unsung and homegrown performers drew the masses into the smaller clubs, seated halls, and dive bars.