Any number of times over the past decade, I've heard people wonder aloud why there's never been a South By Southwest-type music festival here in the Triangle. Come this fall, there will be no reason to wonder that anymore. The Independent is putting on a massively ambitious little shindig called Hopscotch, with 120 local and national acts (including fabled Canadian collective Broken Social Scene and iconic rap group Public Enemy) playing in 10 downtown Raleigh venues over three nights in September.

For more details, see the story in Wednesday's paper. Tickets should go on sale this week.