When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Detroit’s Motor City 5 were a force of nature. An explosive collision of high-energy rock’n’roll, ...

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 ...

Wayne Kramer, who died Feb. 2 at the age of 75, lived a truly rock n’ roll life, from his gloriously unhinged guitar playing with influential proto-punk revolutionaries MC5 to a prison term, years of ...

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 ...

Back in 2022, Detroit proto-punk legends MC5 announced that they’d be releasing their first album in 51 years, Heavy Lifting, that year. That didn’t end up happening, and since then band leader Wayne ...

The post Wayne Kramer, Leader of MC5, Dead at 75 appeared first on Consequence. Wayne Kramer, co-founder, guitarist, and singer of the influential Detroit rock band MC5, has died at the age of 75.

Wayne Kramer, the guitarist who co-founded the proto-punk rock band MC5, died Friday at the age of 75. According to a post on his official Instagram, "he passed away peacefully today from pancreatic ...

Wayne Kramer, founding member of the legendary Detroit proto-punk outfit MC5 and one of rock’s greatest guitarists, has died at the age of 75. The singer-songwriter-political activist’s death was ...

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 ...

Wayne Kramer, guitarist and co-founder of the Detroit punk band Motor City 5 -- also known as MC5 -- died Friday. He was 75. The announcement of Kramer’s death was shared on his and MC5′s social media ...