Hopscotch Music Festival announces 2014 day parties

The 2014 Hopscotch Music Festival is just three weeks away and the festival has just announced their annual series of day parties, kickoff parties, after-parties and whatnot. Bands will be playing venues all around downtown Raleigh from Wednesday, September 3, through Sunday, September 7.

Among the big list of performers are Mary Lattimore and Thurston Moore, Ex Hex, Spider Bags, Lilac Shadows, Schooner, Gross Ghost, Pipe, Chris Stamey, Caitlin Cary, Hammer No More the Fingers, T0W3RS, Loamlands, Whatever Brains and so many more. Check our schedule HERE.

Durham's new club Casbah hosting grand opening September 15

There are new venues popping up all over the place in the Triangle right now. Kings just reopened in late August, Motorco Music Hall is opening in late September and there's the new Durham club Casbah which has just opened.

The first two nights, Sept. 10 and 11, will feature a Dae the DJ and DJ Nugz, but the official grand opening is on Wednesday, Sept. 15 with Caitlin Cary and Matt Douglas of Small Ponds with Joy Kills Sorrow. Tickets are available for $10 in advance via etix.

Casbah is located in a former flower shop in Brightleaf Square at 1007 W. Main St. The club is said to hold about 288 people according to booker Steve Gardner who recently talked to Frank Stasio on WUNC's The State of Things (listen to the interview here). Check out how the club's schedule currently shakes out below.