The new, limited-edition MXR Jail Guitar Doors Drive pedal from Dunlop/MXR is the result of a collaboration between the late ...

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

American Songwriter may earn a commission when you purchase through our links. With MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer’s passing In February 2024, rock ‘n’ roll lost not only one of its most influential ...

Exploring the centuries-old origins of the term punk in an attempt to uncover the very first song to feature the word that went on to define a music movement.

MXR has launched a distortion pedal honouring the late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer. The Jail Guitar Doors Drive was co-designed with Kramer before he died in February 2024, and it is gloriously simple ...

A little reggae, a little ska, and straddling roots rock, folk and “jam band” territory, Dispatch is a group made for the ...

MC5’s aggressive sound, simplistic song writing, and radical political messages made them an iconic fixture of the Detroit music landscape. Breaking News Intern Wayne Kramer of the proto-punk ...

This week, we’ve turned it into a Father’s Day gift guide, with recommendations for what to buy your paternal figures — or ...

As a self-proclaimed “punk, queer grandpa,” the actor and writer John Cameron Mitchell has some advice.

The metal-leaning label Magnetic Eye has a long-running series called Redux, in which tons of different underground artists pay homage to titans of the form. Yesterday, Magnetic Eye release two ...

Veteran photojournalist Maggie St. Thomas's book, out today, Subject: Punk, is a visual time capsule of Southern California’s ...