When it comes to the vast, undulating history of rock music, you’d be hard-pressed to find a band as innovative, invigorating, provocative and perpetuating as the MC5. Oozing up from the mean streets ...

Wayne Kramer, who died Feb. 2 at the age of 75, lived a truly rock n’ roll life, from his gloriously unhinged guitar playing with influential proto-punk revolutionaries MC5 to a prison term, years of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long considered one of the most significant snubs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's induction history, the MC5 is hoping the second time will be the charm from the revolutionary and… By Gary Graff ...

Former MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer is lucky to be doing this interview — lucky to be alive. And he knows it. The legendary guitarist went from groundbreaking rocker to drug addict to prison inmate to ...

John Sinclair, the beatnik poet and Detroit counterculture icon, died Tuesday morning of heart failure at 82. In April 2003 — 21 years ago this week — Sinclair sat with Detroit Free Press music writer ...

Kim Thayil acknowledges that he "wasn't sure" if he was ready to get out and play in public again when Wayne Kramer called him earlier this year to be Part of MC50. By Gary Graff Kim Thayil ...

The guitarist of MC5 discusses his challenging and ultimately redemptive life, as detailed in his new autobiography Nine out of 10 rock star autobiographies trace the same arc: musician achieves fame, ...

I meet John Sinclair in a canalside coffeeshop in Amsterdam, where the vibes are mellow, the air perfumed, and the soundtrack a stream of vintage rock songs of the more laidback kind. Compared to ...