Rolling Stone : Spearhead

New Release : Yell Fire!

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:09:05 PDT

Artist: Spearhead

Article : Franti Raps for Planet

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:56:02 PDT

Musician/activist Michael Franti and his band Spearhead will perform concerts across the country in New York, Chicago and San Francisco this fall as part of a campaign to encourage more Americans to obtain passports. The campaign was launched by Lonely Planet, which has published more than 600 international travel guidebooks, and is supported by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who has drafted a bill to make September National Passport Month.

Franti, who first left the country for a trip to Canada...

Album Review : Stay Human

Mon, 03 May 2004 06:36:31 PDT

Artist: Spearhead
Album: Stay Human
Review: Michael Franti of Oakland, California, is a spiritual and musical heir of a long-past era of socially conscious street poets like Gil Scott-Heron and the Last Poets. Blessed with a rich, resonant baritone and an easy way with metaphor ("The harder they hit us, the louder we become" he says on "Skin on the Drum"), Franti is a singer and rapper who cushions his heavy messages of political and racial...

Album Review : Home

Mon, 03 May 2004 06:33:48 PDT

Artist: Spearhead
Album: Home
Review:

Bob Dylan's "self portrait," Miles Davis' The Man With the Horn: For the hip-hop nation, Public Enemy's Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age is a comparable heartbreaker – a stunning plummet of the gods from the clouds. An almost eerie failure. Not a wild, strange experiment that didn't take – much worse: a mediocrity. The Good Book says that those who live by the sword perish by the sword: There...