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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Out of Lincoln Park, Michigan, the rock band MC5 quickly made a name for themselves with their outspoken music and chaotic on-stage energy. The band became the frontrunners of the punk rock movement, ...

“Can’t Be Found” is a hard-rocking anthem reminiscent of the MC5’s classic work of the late 1960s and early ’70s. The track is available now as a digital download and via streaming services. You also ...

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 ...

The MC5 were known for their raw, uncompromising music, which they envisioned as the soundtrack for the uprising to come. By The Associated Press Wayne Kramer, the co-founder of the protopunk Detroit ...

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 ...

Suzi Quatro’s guest appearance with Alice Cooper’s band on Aug. 31, 2024, at the Pine Knob Music Theatre wasn’t random. The day before, the two Detroit-born rock veterans were at Rust Belt Studios in ...

Blue Oyster Cult’s next album, “Ghost Stories,” was finished and ready for release when the MC5’s Wayne Kramer died Feb. 2. But that makes the cover of the band’s signature song, “Kick Out the Jams,” ...

John Sinclair, a counterculture icon who managed Detroit rockers MC5 during their peak years, has died. He was 82. His representative confirmed that the Michigan native died of congestive heart ...