John Sinclair was locked up for selling a joint to two police officers, but friends The Stooges and MC5 tried to intervene.

But despite their massive impact, MC5 are far less known than many of the bands that formed in their wake. A hard rock band ...

Two months later to the day, John Sinclair, MC5’s manager and mentor, also died. With MC5’s three other members — Rob Tyner, Fred “Sonic” Smith and Michael Davis — gone years before ...

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 ...

By Alex Williams and William Lamb Wayne Kramer, a founder and guitarist of the incendiary Detroit band the MC5, whose furious musical salvos against all things Establishment made them a house band ...

For Becky Tyner, the MC5’s big, thrilling news arrived out of nowhere Sunday night. When it came to the MC5 and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the past two decades had been a saga of hope ...

The guitarist brought an articulate sensibility to his explosive musical energy — an approach that fueled the MC5, the group he co-founded in Lincoln Park in his teens. The band’s heavy ...

MXR has launched a distortion pedal honouring the late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer. The Jail Guitar Doors Drive was ...

The first time music journalist Ben Edmonds heard about the MC5, it was from musician friends in a band called Magic Terry and the Universe. He liked what his friends had to say about the band ...

Dennis Thompson, whose powerhouse drumming drove the MC5, has died, according to the Detroit Free Press. The MC5 were one of the most aggressive and politically active bands of the 1960s and their ...

The musician was known as one of the founding members of the influential Detroit punk band MC5 Scott Dudelson/Getty Wayne Kramer, founding member of the legendary Detroit punk band MC5 ...