Before punk rock had a name, MC5 was already turning up the volume, provoking censorship battles, and changing rock music forever. Rolling Stone included them in their Top 100 punk bands of all time ...

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Upon the MC5’s fifth and sixth nominations, the late Wayne Kramer took to calling his band “the Susan Lucci of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame” -- referencing the actress who famously ...

Wayne Kramer, the co-founder of the protopunk Detroit band the MC5 that thrashed out such hardcore anthems as “Kick Out the Jams” and influenced everyone from the Clash to Rage Against the Machine, ...

More than half a century after the release of the last MC5 album, 1971’s High Time, a new album masterminded by the group’s guitarist Wayne Kramer, who died in February, will come out this fall. The ...

The Detroit-based band, which Kramer founded in the 1960s, is considered a forerunner of punk rock. Kramer, who died Feb. 2, spoke to Fresh Air in 2002 about the early days of the MC5. MC5: Kick out ...

The musician died from pancreatic cancer, according to his close friend, Jason Heath. By The Associated Press Wayne Kramer, the co-founder of the protopunk Detroit band the MC5 that thrashed out such ...