Feed the Beat | Taco Bell

Since 2006, Taco Bell and its Feed The Beat program have helped support more than 600 artists/bands, while helping fans discover new bands and bands discover new fans. Feed the Beat supports these artists in various ways, from free food on tour – no strings attached, to boosting exposure and giving them a stage.

These innovative stages include leveraging the brand’s relationships to get new music heard, amplifying a band through Taco Bell’s advertising, building a band’s following through a strong online and social presence and at influential music activations across the country. Why? Because we are fans too.

Submissions for Spring 2014 are now closed. Selected artists/bands will be notified and announced in April.

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1 EPIC LINEUP.
7 YEARS IN THE MAKING.

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A Great Big World Aer Alpine Antwon Astro Atlas Genius Bad Books Bad Cop Bear Mountain Beast Patrol Bestfriends Bleached Bosnian Rainbows Calvin Love Candy Hearts Capital Cities Chancellor Warhol Chris Webby Churchill Deafheaven Deep Sea Diver Della Mae Dinner And A Suit Dresses Drgn King Drop City Yacht Club Echosmith Elastic Bond Filligar Gliss Gold Fields Goldhouse Hanni El Khatib Heart to Heart Houses HRVRD Juliet Simms Kitten Kopecky Family Band Laura Stevenson Leagues Leftover Cuties Lettuce Little Comets Los Amigos Invisibles Magic Man Mayer Hawthorne Midnight Spin MKTO Moon Taxi On An On Pangea PAPA Paper Route Pickwick RDGLDGRN Restorations Rival Sons Royal Thunder RVSB (Raff vs Bitman) Shovels and Rope Sir Sly SKATERS Ski Lodge Smith Westerns Sophie Madeleine St. Lucia Strange Talk Stickup Kid Striking Matches The Chevin The Colourist The Griswolds The Hunts The Lighthouse & The Whaler The Love Language The Mowgli's The Neighbourhood The Postelles The Rouge The Virginmarys The Weeks The 1975 Timeflies Tommy & The High Pilots Touche Amore Twin Peaks Viceroy Vintage Trouble Walk Off The Earth Wampire Wildcat! Wildcat! Wild Moccasins Wyldlife Yellow Red Sparks You Blew It! Young Statues Youngblood Hawke Young London ZZ Ward

This is the story of two bands.
Brought together at SXSW by Taco Bell.
For one epic night, one epic show.

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PASSION PIT

@PassionPit - Passion Pit is the brainchild of Michael Angelakos. Michael's touring band consists of Ian Hultquist, Jeff Apruzzese, Xander Singh, and Chris Hartz. The band has been hot on the indie scene since forming in 2007 after Angelakos created the Chunk of Change EP. Less then a year later Passion Pit released their debut album Manners to critical acclaim. Passion Pit followed up with a second full-length album mid-2012. During the release of Manners, Passion Pit started a relationship with Feed The Beat^® and is now returning the support by taking new Feed The Beat^® artists Wildcat! Wildcat! under its wing to share the stage at SXSW 2013.

WILDCAT! WILDCAT!

The members of @WildcatWildcat have been friends forever... oh, let's say fifteen years. Lead singers Jesse Taylor, Michael Wilson, and drummer Jesse Carmichael all share more than a few strong common bonds... _a propensity for making music being the obvious. Over the span of years the guys have played together in one fashion or another, but didn't delve into this project until 2011, when it just felt like time.

© 2013 TACO BELL CORP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Jason Nocito, Passion Pit Promo Photography. Andy Barron, Passion Pit Madison Square Garden Photography. James Exley, Wildcat! Wildcat! Promo Photography. Domenic Barbero, Wildcat! Wildcat! Footage.