Awesome New Republic | |
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Also known as | "ANR" |
Origin | Miami, Florida |
Genres | Dance-pop, indie rock |
Years active | 2005 – present |
Labels | Honor Roll Music / 10K Islands (2007 - 2013) Sutro (2005 - 2006) |
Members | Michael John Hancock Brian Robertson |
Website | http://www.anrmiami.com |
Awesome New Republic is a two-piece indie band from Miami, Florida consisting of Michael John Hancock and Brian Robertson. Their debut album, ANR So Far , was released with critical acclaim from online magazines such as Stereogum, [1] and received play on the BBC and KCRW.
ANR So Far was featured on Pitchfork Media and received 7.9/10. [2]
Awesome New Republic was founded by Michael John Hancock and Brian Robertson at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami in 2004. [3] The duo had previously performed together in a 5-piece band called Empirical Mile with other University of Miami music school students. In 2005, "MJ" and "B-Rob" combined two previously hand made studio albums Courageous and Witness Now the Birth of An Awesome New Republic to create their debut release "ANR So Far".
ANR has shared bills with a variety of acts, including The New Deal, [4] Girl Talk, [5] Animal Collective, [6] Mike Gordon and the Benevento Russo Duo. [7] Awesome New Republic played the 2008 Langerado Festival [8] and was scheduled to play the 2009 festival [9] before its subsequent cancellation. They have twice played both the Pop Montreal and CMJ music festivals.
In 2008, they were featured as a center piece in an article in The New York Times about the budding Miami music scene [10] which hailed them as "one of the newest exponents of this growing tropical bohemia."
Awesome New Republic uses Twitter actively. In August 2011 the group collaborated with acclaimed performance artist Jillian Mayer for their "It's Around You" music video [11]
The release of "Rational Geographic Volume 1" coincided with a sponsorship campaign of isoHunt by Honor Roll Music. This is first time a record label has actively advertised a band directly to BitTorrent users. [12]
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