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Suzi Quatro and Alice Cooper met in 2024 in Royal Oak to record a cover of the iconic MC5 song “Kick Out the Jams” for Quatro ...

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 ...

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 ...

DETROIT - 1967: The rock group MC5 (L-R Fred "Sonic" Smith, Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson, Rob Tyner, Wayne Kramer and Michael Davis) pose for a photo in front of an American flag in 1967 in Detroit, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The MC5’s sophomore album arrived on Jan. 15, 1970, proclaiming that the notorious Detroit rockers were Back in the U.S.A. But then, they’d never left. Unfortunately, and to very few people’s surprise ...

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 ...