A quick rundown of some of the performances I saw at the Hopscotch Music Festival on 4-6 September 2025.
Below is a YouTube playlist of some of my favorite (mostly new) music from 2021. Two albums were re-released for their 10th anniversary this year. I couldn’t always find a video for the new release, but this is pretty close.
| Rider To The Sea | Anna Calvi |
| Yesterday Will Come | Caleb Landry Jones |
| Family Swan (Mecca Normal) | Califone |
| Vanishing | Circuit des Yeux |
| Le Commencement | Colin Stetson |
| Magic Bullets For Dracula | Fair Mothers |
| Badibaba | Goat Girl |
| Fire at Static Valley | Godspeed You! Black Emperor |
| Shine | Hiss Golden Messenger |
| Peace Signs | IDLES |
| Hey Now | London Grammar |
| Days Like These | Low |
| Make Worry For Me | Matt Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy |
| Enemy | Midwife |
| Don’t You Blanket When That Happens | Mike Adams At His Honest Weight |
| The Destruction Of The Kola Superdeep Borehole Tower | The Mountain Goats |
| In Again | Palberta |
| A Tip to Trick the Tide | R. Ring/Quailbones |
| Follow Me Around | Radiohead |
| I Hope I Never Fall in Love | The Reds, Pinks & Purples |
| Once Upon A Freak | Ringo Deathstarr |
| Bones | Rosali |
| Lasting Friend | Samia |
| Peace Signs | Sharon Van Etten |
| Valentine | Snail Mail |
| Will To Power | Springtime |
| Pay Your Way In Pain | St. Vincent |
| Projecting | Steve Burns and the Struggle |
| The Last Exit | Still Corners |
| Chaise Longue | Wet Leg |
| Executioner | wych elm |
Out of order list of some of my favorite music releases this year. Not that you asked.
Marvin Pontiac, The Asylum Tapes
Mount Eerie, A Crow Looked At Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI-HcFBxD_E
The National, Sleep Well Beast
The Magnetic Fields, 50 Song Memoir
Game Theory, Supercalifragile
Godspeed You! Black Emporer, Luciferian Towers
Planetarium
St. Vincent, MASSEDUCTION
Father John Misty, Pure Comedy
Robyn Hitchcock, Robyn Hitchcock
Sufjan Stevens, Tonya Harding
A playlist of men drinking whiskey.
Adam Scott with Nick Offerman in Parks and Recreation
Father John Misty (Josh Tillman) for Suntory
Bill Murray in Lost in Translation
Nick Offerman’s Yule Log
Quick quiz: which of these song covers actually exists?
Answer: They are all true. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS9LPPOIEZM
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