Subtlety and the MC5 were not the best of friends. That mindset – and a profanity-laced newspaper ad – cost them a record deal in April 1969. The band had just released their debut album, the classic ...

Einstein’s First Law of Thermodynamics asserts that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another. Apparently that applies to high energy, too – in the form of the ...

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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 back ...

DETROIT - 1967: The rock group MC5 (L-R Fred "Sonic" Smith, Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson, Rob Tyner, Wayne Kramer and Michael Davis) pose for a photo in front of an American flag in 1967 in Detroit, ...

A sixth snub from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame did not deter the MC5 from doing what it does best, and naturally – kicking out the jams, mother – well, you know. The latest lineup of the iconic group ...

American Songwriter may earn a commission when you purchase through our links. With MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer’s passing In February 2024, rock ‘n’ roll lost not only one of its most influential ...

Founding MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson, the last surviving member of the influential Detroit proto-punk band MC5, died Thursday, May 9, after experiencing a series of medical issues. He was 75. Thompson ...

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 ...

In 1970, Detroit rock pioneers in the MC5 wrote and recorded the band’s final record, High Time. During the process, guitarist Wayne Kramer tried something he long romanticized in William S. Burroughs ...

He has enjoyed a distinguished solo career since 1995’s The Hard Stuff and his association with Epitaph Records, as well as a concurrent vocation scoring movies and TV series ranging from the Will ...