MC5's third and latest album Heavy Lifting—which might very well be their last—debuts on multiple charts in the U.K. this week.

I was heartbroken because he had such a passion for life. I hate to sound corny but he really did,” recalls Slash about ...

They also released the studio albums “Back in the USA” and “High Time” before breaking up at the end of 1972. In quiet honor ...

High Time, was released in 1971, to great reviews but poor sales. In late 1972, the band broke up, with their hometown final show attended only by a few dozen fans. Every member of MC5 pursued ...

Don Was has spoken to NME about working on the first MC5 album in 53 years and the sad loss of the band’s sole surviving member Wayne Kramer to cancer just months before its release. Kramer died ...

Following their first studio album, Back in the USA, in 1970 and a follow-up, High Times, in 1972, MC5 broke up. After spending several years in prison on drug charges, Kramer launched a solo ...

The title track of the MC5's debut live album was the incendiary call to arms that ignited punk’s vital spark in 60s Detroit ...

The first time music journalist Ben Edmonds heard about the MC5, it was from musician friends ... There were plenty of other ways to get high.”) But this was how a 15-year-old Jaan Uhelszki ...

Influential Detroit band MC5 have released their first album in 53 years and it’s a cracker, writes Fiona Shepherd ...

As swansongs go this one is fairly dramatic with the death of bandleader and frontman Wayne Kramer and original drummer Dennis ‘Machine Gun’ Thompson earlier this year. Heavy Lifting, produced by Bob ...

They also released the studio albums “Back in the USA” and “High Time” before breaking up at the end of 1972. In quiet honor of the MC5, Rage Against the Machine would nickname their band ...