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 ...

MC5 in 1967, l-r, Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith, Michael Davis, Dennis ‘Machine Gun’ Thompson, Wayne Kramer and Rob Tyner - Leni Sinclair/Michael Ochs Archives “I was heartbroken because he had such a passion ...

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 ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND — Decades after unleashing a broadside of Detroit rock energy — and following years of frustrating snubs — the MC5 got justice at last from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The trailblazing, ...

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 ...

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 ...

MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson, the last surviving original member of the influential group, died Thursday morning at MediLodge of Taylor, where he had been rehabilitating following a heart attack in ...

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 ...

“Flower power” was in full force in the ’60s, but that didn’t mean there weren’t plenty of other rock bands that went against the psychedelic grain. Detroit’s MC5 represented the grittier underground, ...

In a small rehearsal space near downtown Los Angeles, five hard-rocking men are getting weird. Out front is Wayne Kramer, formerly of the notorious proto-punk band the MC5 and now a month past 70, ...