The Jail Guitar Doors Drive was designed with Jimi Dunlop, CEO of Jim Dunlop, and Johnny Wator, owner of Daredevil Pedals ...

The MC5 guitarist had worked on its design before his passing last year, and now it serves as an immortalization of his proto ...

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 ...

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

Kramer, who died Feb. 2, spoke to Fresh Air in 2002 about the early days of the MC5. MC5: Kick out the jams, mother*****. Yeah. I, I, I, I, I'm going to, I'm going to kick them out. Yeah.

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 ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Upon the MC5’s fifth and sixth nominations, the late Wayne Kramer took to calling his band “the Susan Lucci of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame” -- referencing the actress who ...

If the essence of Detroit music is relentless forward motion, the MC5 delivered that with the most frenetic joy to its audiences. “They were the James Brown Revue crossed with the Rolling Stones ...