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 ...

MC5: Kick out the jams, mother*****. Yeah. I, I, I, I, I'm going to, I'm going to kick them out. Yeah. BIANCULLI: That's the Detroit-based band the MC5, one of the most radical of all the rock bands ...

Wayne Kramer, who died Feb. 2 at the age of 75, lived a truly rock n’ roll life, from his gloriously unhinged guitar playing with influential proto-punk revolutionaries MC5 to a prison term, years of ...

The Detroit-based band, which Kramer founded in the 1960s, is considered a forerunner of punk rock. Kramer, who died Feb. 2, spoke to Fresh Air in... Remembering guitarist Wayne Kramer, founder of the ...

The group MC5, which stood for Motor City Five, was loud and often dissonant. Some lyrics had expletives you couldn't play on the radio, and the band's politics were far to the left. In their early ...