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The only exception I am aware of is this recent discovery :

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14098

Note that the paper isn't only about a new antibiotic but also about a promising method for making additional discoveries via uncultured bacteria.

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Also this: http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)31451-4

Teixobactin, I assume? Their new method of parallel testing promising proto-antibiotics is really neat, but given the ratio of successes to failures, I wouldn't hold out much hope for a second golden age.

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