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, ...
Einstein’s First Law of Thermodynamics asserts that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another. Apparently that applies to high energy, too – in the form of the ...
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 ...
Relaunching the MC5 — with a new lineup, new music and renewed purpose — helped pull Wayne Kramer out of “a real pit of despair” he fell into during the past couple of years. And he’s confident that ...
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 ...
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 ...
Subtlety and the MC5 were not the best of friends. That mindset – and a profanity-laced newspaper ad – cost them a record deal in April 1969. The band had just released their debut album, the classic ...
A sixth snub from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame did not deter the MC5 from doing what it does best, and naturally – kicking out the jams, mother – well, you know. The latest lineup of the iconic group ...
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 ...
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