MC5 in 1967, l-r, Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith, Michael Davis, Dennis ‘Machine Gun’ Thompson, Wayne Kramer and Rob Tyner - Leni Sinclair/Michael Ochs Archives “I was heartbroken because he had such a passion ...

Straight out of the Motor City, these punk rock pioneers weren't just political radicals, they wanted to destroy the dull ...

Relaunching the MC5 — with a new lineup, new music and renewed purpose — helped pull Wayne Kramer out of “a real pit of despair” he fell into during the past couple of years. And he’s confident that ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Detroit’s Motor City 5 were a force of nature. An explosive collision of high-energy rock’n’roll, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a small rehearsal space near downtown Los Angeles, five hard-rocking men are getting weird. Out front is Wayne Kramer, formerly of the notorious proto-punk band the MC5 and now a month past 70, ...

The MC5 were known for their raw, uncompromising music, which they envisioned as the soundtrack for the uprising to come. By The Associated Press Wayne Kramer, the co-founder of the protopunk Detroit ...

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It's been 50 years since there was new music from MC5. But now Wayne Kramer and his current musical company are kicking out the jams once again. "It's been a long time since there's been any new MC5 ...