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Before punk rock had a name, MC5 was already turning up the volume, provoking censorship battles, and changing rock music ...

Don Was has spoken to NME about working on the first MC5 album in 53 years and the sad loss of the band’s sole surviving member Wayne Kramer to cancer just months before its release. Kramer died back ...

DETROIT - 1967: The rock group MC5 (L-R Fred "Sonic" Smith, Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson, Rob Tyner, Wayne Kramer and Michael Davis) pose for a photo in front of an American flag in 1967 in Detroit, ...

Relaunching the MC5 — with a new lineup, new music and renewed purpose — helped pull Wayne Kramer out of “a real pit of despair” he fell into during the past couple of years. And he’s confident that ...

… time to turn back the clock and mark the February 1969 release of one of history’s most iconic, revolutionary, paradigm-shifting rock and roll albums. This is a testimonial of the MC5’s seismic Kick ...

A sixth snub from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame did not deter the MC5 from doing what it does best, and naturally – kicking out the jams, mother – well, you know. The latest lineup of the iconic group ...

Founding MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson, the last surviving member of the influential Detroit proto-punk band MC5, died Thursday, May 9, after experiencing a series of medical issues. He was 75. Thompson ...

Before your favorite hard rock musicians were old enough to tie their own shoes, Wayne Kramer had already founded and dismantled one of the most influential bands of all time, put on one of the most ...

How many 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees are now recording their first new album in more than half a century — and performing at a 230-capacity San Diego music bar this month? One. How many ...