Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer in 2022. Half a century after the last new music under the MC5 name, guitarist and band co-founder ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MC5 in 1967, l-r, Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith, Michael Davis, Dennis ‘Machine Gun’ Thompson, Wayne Kramer and Rob Tyner - Leni ...

Before there was the Clash, Nirvana or Rage Against the Machine there was the MC5. "The MC5 was playing punk rock music before there was a name for it," says Tom Morello, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ...

Considering MC5’s sixth nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a couple of years ago, Wayne Kramer took a benign view of the honor. “Either way, it’ll be OK with me,” Kramer, the band’s ...

The 33rd annual Concert of Colors is set to return to Detroit this July, and this year’s cultural festival will include a tribute to the MC5, the acclaimed rock band from Lincoln Park that helped ...

John Sinclair, the beatnik poet and Detroit counterculture icon, died Tuesday morning of heart failure at 82. In April 2003 — 21 years ago this week — Sinclair sat with Detroit Free Press music writer ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook On one of those listless Christmas break days, when the wind is bitter but there isn’t any snow to ...

A leather-clad mix of genre-bending bands united last night in Detroit to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Kick Out the Jams, the MC5 record that changed the face of rock’n’roll forever. The mere ...

In tribute to MC5 bassist Michael Davis, who died on Friday, we present five incendiary preformances from the US punk forefathers Kick Out the Jams (Kick Out the Jams, 1969) Rocket Reducer #62 (Rama ...

Half a century after the last new music under the MC5 name, guitarist and band co-founder Wayne Kramer says he’s ready to “take it to the streets” once again. A new MC5 album will be released in ...