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, ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Leni Sinclair/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images On stage at El Club, a respectably divey ...
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 ...
How many 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees are now recording their first new album in more than half a century — and performing at a 230-capacity San Diego music bar this month? One. How many ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...