Next BIG Nashville Music Festival

That Nashville is about more than country music is, by now, a foregone conclusion. (Even outsiders are privy to this fact — look no further than the aforementioned November issue of Nylon.) But it was arguably the fifth iteration of Next BIG Nashville that cemented what we've been saying for years in the wider imagination. Among others, local acts like synth-pop savant Ross Wariner (Uncle Skeleton), Nashville's Dead cohorts PUJOL and Turbo Fruits, and resident genre-hopping DJ crew Mashville, shared the stage with nationally touted artists like Yeasayer, Wavves, RJD2 and more, each decidedly uncharacteristic of our city's assumed one-note aesthetic. Thanks in large part to NBN, that tired conventional wisdom was turned on its head in 2010."
- Nashville Scene "Best of 2010" Issue