For people tuned into late-1980s San Francisco punk, the Beatnigs carried forward the promise of its experimentation and core political ethos with uncanny finesse and artful adventure. Signed to ...
Musician/poet/activist Michael Franti (Beatnigs, Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy) has revived his '90s group Spearhead. The soul/funk/hip-hop group will release "Stay Human" -- its first album in… By ...
Michael Franti has seen what being a provocateur can do. In the bands he has part of early in his career, the Beatnigs and the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Franti railed against injustice, often ...