When it comes to the vast, undulating history of rock music, you’d be hard-pressed to find a band as innovative, invigorating, provocative and perpetuating as the MC5. Oozing up from the mean streets ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson, the founding MC5 drummer and the last surviving original member of the pioneering proto-punk group, died Wednesday, The Detroit Free Press reported. He was 75. An exact ...

MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson, whose muscular, high-octane style helped propel the influential Detroit band, died Thursday morning after a series of medical issues. He was 75. Thompson passed away at ...

Founding MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson, the last surviving member of the influential Detroit proto-punk band MC5, died Thursday, May 9, after experiencing a series of medical issues. He was 75. Thompson ...

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 ...

Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson, the longtime drummer of the iconic Detroit proto-punk band MC5 who earned his nickname due to his rapidfire drum style and its militant rat-tat-tat sound, has died, the ...