Awesome New Republic

Awesome New Republic is an indie dance-rock duo from Miami, FL, who made their full-length album debut in 2005. Founded in 2004, the duo is comprised of multi-instrumentalists Michael-John Hancock (aka John Hancock; vocals, drums) and Brian Robertson (keys, vocals), who began working together as students at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. Citing influences that range from Prince and Parliament-Funkadelic to Giorgio Moroder and Talking Heads, Hancock and Robertson initially recorded a pair of homemade albums, Witness Now the Birth of an Awesome New Republi...