The Independent Weekly’s first-ever Hopscotch Music Festival begins on Thursday night in several music venues and bars across downtown Raleigh. The event showcases over 120 of the best emerging indie acts in the country, with an emphasis on the strong talent in this region. Highlighting the festival are Public Enemy, Broken Social Scene, Panda Bear, and the North Carolina Symphony. However, that only scratches the surface of what’s going on all weekend.

The young festival has an iPhone app, but doesn’t have an Android app available. Gogoraleigh has created the next-best-thing; a calendar . Follow all 150+ events by subscribing to gogoraleigh’s Hopscotch Music Festival calendar. See an act you like? Add it to your own calendar. Unsure about an act? Open up the calendar’s event, and see the band’s hometown, follow its link to Hopscotch’s band page (where you can sample tracks from the band), and see a map to the venue. You can even enable an alert for each act if you want.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, though, let’s just follow the links to all of the great material out there about Hopscotch:

• Buy Tickets
• Gogoraleigh Event Calendar (including day parties, band and music player links)
• Venue map
• Last.fm Hopscotch Radio Channel
• The latest Hopscotch news
• @hopscotchfest on Twitter
• David Menconi’s Article (News & Observer)

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