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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND — Decades after unleashing a broadside of Detroit rock energy — and following years of frustrating snubs — the MC5 got justice at last from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

The Motor City 5, better known as MC5, were one of the most influential rock bands of all time, forming a riotous Detroit tag team with The Stooges in the late Sixties. Where Iggy Pop’s lot were ...

Brad Brooks, the singer in late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer's "reanimation" of the revolutionary proto-punk band, recently talked to CBS SF about working with the legendary musician on the ...

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As an enthusiastic student of rock history, he was familiar with the nuts and bolts of MC5 lore, from singer Rob Tyner’s hippie Afro to the band’s Grande Ballroom home base and its ...