Before punk rock had a name, MC5 was already turning up the volume, provoking censorship battles, and changing rock music ...

John Sinclair, the beatnik poet and Detroit counterculture icon, died Tuesday morning of heart failure at 82. In April 2003 — 21 years ago this week — Sinclair sat with Detroit Free Press music writer ...

Before there was the Clash, Nirvana or Rage Against the Machine there was the MC5. "The MC5 was playing punk rock music before there was a name for it," says Tom Morello, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ...

The 33rd annual Concert of Colors is set to return to Detroit this July, and this year’s cultural festival will include a tribute to the MC5, the acclaimed rock band from Lincoln Park that helped ...

On Halloween week half a century ago, the MC5 stepped onto a Detroit stage and into rock immortality. This October, just five miles from the Grande Ballroom and the recording of "Kick Out the Jams," ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MC5 in 1967, l-r, Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith, Michael Davis, Dennis ‘Machine Gun’ Thompson, Wayne Kramer and Rob Tyner - Leni ...

Michael Davis was remembered by colleagues as a friend and a key part in the MC5 machine that created a template for punk rock out of southeastern Michigan during the late 60s. "Michael was a major ...

A leather-clad mix of genre-bending bands united last night in Detroit to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Kick Out the Jams, the MC5 record that changed the face of rock’n’roll forever. The mere ...

In tribute to MC5 bassist Michael Davis, who died on Friday, we present five incendiary preformances from the US punk forefathers Kick Out the Jams (Kick Out the Jams, 1969) Rocket Reducer #62 (Rama ...

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 ...