Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wayne Kramer studio portrait. "It's very heavy," Ezrin said. "It has a kind of sense of revolutionary message but also a good ...

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, ...

Before punk rock had a name, MC5 was already turning up the volume, provoking censorship battles, and changing rock music ...

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 ...

“Can’t Be Found” is a hard-rocking anthem reminiscent of the MC5’s classic work of the late 1960s and early ’70s. The track is available now as a digital download and via streaming services. You also ...

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 launch ...

More than half a century after the release of the last MC5 album, 1971’s High Time, a new album masterminded by the group’s guitarist Wayne Kramer, who died in February, will come out this fall. The ...

MC5's live album 'Kick Out the Jams' became a punk rock staple, but its profanity led to the band being dropped by their label.

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 ...