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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...