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, ...

The Motor City was burning, as the MC5 likes to say, on Thursday night, May 5, as Cinco de Mayo celebrations raged on the streets of Detroit’s Mexican Town. But the real fire was lit inside El Club, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 trailblazing, ...

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In conversation, Wayne Kramer is a gentleman. Not overly warm, but certainly not unfriendly — which might be somewhat surprising considered his band the MC5 famously announced, “It’s time to kick out ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dennis Thompson, the drummer and last remaining member of MC5, has died at the age of 75. According to the Detroit Free Press, Thompson passed away at MediLodge of Taylor, a care facility outside of ...