When it comes to the vast, undulating history of rock music, you’d be hard-pressed to find a band as innovative, invigorating, provocative and perpetuating as the MC5. Oozing up from the mean streets ...

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 ...

MC5: Kick out the jams, mother*****. Yeah. I, I, I, I, I'm going to, I'm going to kick them out. Yeah. BIANCULLI: That's the Detroit-based band the MC5, one of the most radical of all the rock bands ...

When MC5 burst out of Detroit and onto the national scene in 1969, they did it as only they could: with Kick Out the Jams, one of the most electrifying and dynamic rock albums of all time, recorded ...

The band's founder, singer and one of its guitarists, Wayne Kramer, died last week at the age of 75. The group MC5, which stood for Motor City Five, was loud and often dissonant. Some lyrics had ...