Two years after it was originally announced, a release date for the fourth album by Detroit legends the MC5 has been announced. Heavy Lifting, the follow-up to 1971's classic High Time, will be ...

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 ...

Proto-punk legends MC5 will release their first album in over 53 years this October, with Heavy Lifting arriving just months after the deaths of guitarist Wayne Kramer and drummer Dennis Thompson, MC5 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wayne Kramer, the co-founder of the protopunk Detroit band the MC5 that thrashed out such hardcore anthems as “Kick Out the Jams” and influenced everyone from the Clash to Rage Against ...

Wayne Kramer, guitarist and co-founder of the Detroit punk band Motor City 5 -- also known as MC5 -- died Friday. He was 75. The announcement of Kramer’s death was shared on his and MC5′s social media ...

MC5: Kick out the jams, mother*****. Yeah. I, I, I, I, I'm going to, I'm going to kick them out. Yeah. BIANCULLI: That's the Detroit-based band the MC5, one of the most radical of all the rock bands ...

Wayne Kramer, a co-founder of legendary Detroit rock band MC5, died Friday at the age of 75 — mere weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. His death was announced on his social media ...