Photo by Ian WitlenMiami band Awesome New Republic at Fontana's in the Lower East Side. Click here to view more pictures.​Just a few months ago, Awesome New Republic seemed the next South Florida band likely to strike big. But a few months is a million years in blog time, and somewhere in the last few real-time weeks, West Palm's Surfer Blood seems to have become THE South Florida hype band. They played some 12 shows in five days at last week's annual CMJ Music Marathon in New York, and ended
