Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer, photographed in 2022. In 2020, Wayne Kramer found himself in a funk. Frustrated by the Trump ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer in 2022. Half a century after the last new music under the MC5 name, guitarist and band co-founder ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2020, Wayne Kramer found himself in a funk. Frustrated by the Trump presidency, distressed by the COVID-19 pandemic, he was grumpy about America’s state of affairs. And so the Detroit-born ...