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, ...
CLEVELAND — Decades after unleashing a broadside of Detroit rock energy — and following years of frustrating snubs — the MC5 got justice at last from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The trailblazing, ...
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 ...
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 ...