In 2006, Taco Bell created the Feed The Beat program to support up-and-coming artists and musicians. Since then they have helped over 2,000 musicians/bands and created countless relationships between fans and these artists. The Feed The Beat program not only helps feed touring artists by supplying a no-strings-attached $500 Taco Bell gift card, but they also work to garner higher levels of exposure for Feed The Beat artists by featuring their music and likenesses in television commercials and on their social platforms.
Now, Taco Bell is taking how they give artists exposure one step further by distributing their albums on vinyl to 300 lucky Taco Bell Rewards members with the brand new Feed The Beat Record Club. The first drop happened on May 20th, 2025, at 2pm PST with the inaugural box containing new records from 3 Feed The Beat class of 2025 artists: Anxious, Magdalena Bay, and Frankie and the Witch Fingers.
Anxious, a quintet from Connecticut, released their sophomore album Bambi this past February. The album is an amalgamation of Northeast tri-state hardcore and emo while embracing more general songwriting stylings of alternative rock as a whole, something that Anxious had only hinted at with prior works. Bambi is growth, depth, ambition, and energy masterfully displayed across 11 tracks – it takes the unsolvable and unavoidable surrounding coming out of adolescence and makes them resonate with listeners in an authentic and fresh way. The album is a statement of purpose, of putting your foot down and proudly proclaiming “this is where I’m coming from, and this is where I want to go. I don’t know exactly how I will get there, but I will.” Bambi is the sound of Anxious splaying themselves for the public, ugly parts and all, and coming out the other side better than ever.
A masterful, magical pop duo from Los Angeles, Magdalena Bay is composed of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin. The duo released their sophomore studio album, Imaginal Disk, late last summer. Magdalena Bay’s music is akin to synthesized nostalgia, kitschy catchiness and alluringly warped neo-hooks. The pair is a musical entity perfectly suited for these times – somewhere in the blur of the known, pushing sonic landscapes into the future.
Also from Los Angeles is the quintet Frankie and the Witch Fingers, set to release their latest album, Trash Classic, on June 6. The album marks an innate change for the band. Trash Classic is unlike anything they’ve ever done before – it snarls at listeners with proto-punk venom, sharp melodies, and electronic textures that cough and sputter like the last-ditch effort of a streetlight fighting not to be swallowed by the darkness of a back alley. This album pushes the Witch Fingers’ sound to a razor’s edge and twists and mangles itself around synth-punk and fragments of new wave, covered in the grime and grit of industrialization. Trash Classic is a detonation of sharp guitars and sludge-riddled bass lines following the lead of a crackling synth. With vocals that cut through like transmissions waxing poetic over the themes of escapism, decay, and overindulgence, the result is an album that holds a flame up to the rot and excess, a public viewing of toxic glamour and nihilistic salvation.
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