Michael Franti & Spearhead

Michael Franti Comes Full Circle

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 12, 2011 4:02 pm

Michael Franti began his career on Capitol/EMI, then left the label, and now he's back with the release of last year's The Sound Of Sunshine. Franti's been making music for over 20 years now, and his career's gone through tons of metamorphoses. He's also watched the music business change rapidly over those two-plus decades. Franti called...

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Michael Franti & Spearhead — The Sound Of Sunshine

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 7, 2010 1:26 pm

Michael Franti's always been a refreshing voice in the peace movement, which is often ironically full of negativity and people railing at politicians for everything they see as wrong in the world. Franti's records, though they've spoken out against war, have been more about bridging the divides between both sides holding guns than yelling at them...

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Michael Franti & Spearhead's The Sound Of Sunshine

The Daily Dig: Michael Franti & Spearhead's "Time To Go Home"

Submitted by Kate Harper on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 2:39pm

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 13, 2010 2:39 pm

Today, I'm launching a new segment in which I'll be featuring a track I'm enjoying every day. It'll be different from Ed Skira's Don't Look Back (In Anger) in that it will highlight songs both past and present that I'm enjoying that day, but which haven't necessarily influenced my life at all. The first track is...

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Bonnaroo 2010 Day 2: Flaming Lips' Dark Side Of The Moon Is Must-See

By Mike Bax (CHARTattack) June 14, 2010 1:26 pm

I'm typing the majority of this review back at my campsite — as Michael Franti & Spearhead play the last few songs of their set. There's a pocket of two-and-a-half hours between Franti and The Flaming Lips' midnight performance in which the only band playing is Kings Of Leon. And while I mean no disrespect to the Kings, after you've seen them...

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Michael Franti & Spearhead — "Say Hey (I Love You)"

By CHARTattack Staff September 22, 2009 3:40 pm

Here's the video for "Say Hey (I Love You)," the latest single from Michael Franti & Spearhead's All Rebel Rockers. "Say Hey (I Love You)" is genre-hopper Franti's first top 40 hit.

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Michael Franti Rebels Peacefully

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 5, 2008 3:25 pm

Michael Franti has been to Jamaica many times and has recorded material there with his band Spearhead on multiple occasions. But every time Franti returns, he's taken by how much Jamaicans love music. The studio doors were wide open while Michael Franti & Spearhead recorded their new All Rebel Rockers album with production duo Sly and Robbie...

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Thaaat's Awkward: Michael Franti

Submitted by Kate Harper on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 2:59pm

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 26, 2008 2:59 pm

I'm a huge fan of Michael Franti and his band, Spearhead. But an awkward moment came halfway through listening to "I Got Love For You," a track on his new album All Rebel Rockers, due out Sept. 9. See, this song contains the lyrical couplet: "In the back of a Greyhound bus/You can be who you are." Obviously, this song...

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Michael Franti Goes To War And Returns With New Film And Album

By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) June 7, 2006 5:00 pm

Two years ago, renowned activist and singer/songwriter Michael Franti travelled with his guitar and video cameras to the war zones of Iraq, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Franti is now ready to release the fruits of that journey in the form of a documentary titled I Know I'm Not Alone and a new Spearhead album called Yell Fire...