Awesome New Republic is a two-piece indie band from Miami, Florida consisting of Michael John Hancock and Brian Robertson.
[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.
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.
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."