My neighbor dragged me to the Michael Franti show at Marymoor Park yesterday. I didn't really want to go, but she bought me a ticket, so what could I do? Well, it turns out that I could have great time ( Read more... )

So what do you call it when you intentionally/playfully come up with alternate lyrics that sort of sound like the originals? I've been listening to "Rude Boy's Back in Town" on Michael Franti & Spearhead's new album, All Rebel Rockers, and now I'm singing it, "The rootball's back in town." Although I guess it would make more sense to make it "The ( Read more... )

Nice interview with Michael Franti in The Australian today. I hadn't heard that he's made a documentary called I Know I'm Not Alone about his travels around Iraq in the aftermath of the US invasion. I also didn't know that he (and his band Spearhead) are so popular in Australia. Although come to think of it, last time I was there, S. and I visited ( Read more... )

I've been listening to this 2003 album by Michael Franti and Spearhead, which I got for my birthday this year. Really like the title track and was reduced to tears yesterday by "Love, Why Did You Go Away?" Anti-war folks might like "Bomb the World", with its refrain, "We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb the world into peace." It's ( Read more... )