But despite their massive impact, MC5 are far less known than many of the bands that formed in their wake. A hard rock band ...

MC5 was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday. The band made it in on the Musical Excellence award after being nominated six times over the years. The Detroit band, often ...

Co-founder Wayne Kramer is finally ready to release MC5 new album, their first since 1971’s High Times. Heavy Lifting will arrive in early 2024, at least two years after its original planned ...

MC5 were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Tom Morello on Saturday. The band made it in on the Musical Excellence award after being nominated six times over the years. The ...

Don Was has spoken to NME about working on the first MC5 album in 53 years and the sad loss of the band’s sole surviving member Wayne Kramer to cancer just months before its release. Kramer died ...

Brad Brooks, the singer in late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer's "reanimation ... more expletives directed at the chain and the label's logo. The subsequent threat of Hudson's to pull all of ...

Under the guiding hand of poet and politico John Sinclair, the MC5 mixed the incendiary White Panther ethos of “Rock and roll, dope and fucking in the streets” with high-energy garage rock and ...

One irresistible facet of the MC5’s live show was that they ramped up the energy with choreographed, showband stage moves that were intrinsically Detroit, and very Motown: “We loved Motown ...

The co-founder and guitarist of influential Detroit punk rock band MC5 died from pancreatic cancer aged 75. Despite being ill, his death was sudden and unexpected. “I still haven’t really ...

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 ...

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 ...