"Ball and Chain" by Big Brother and the Holding Company and "Never Going Back Again" by Fleetwood Mac are underrated classic ...

Heavy Lifting, the first MC5 album in 51, will be out in October (RIP Wayne Kramer and Dennis Thompson), and here’s “Can’t Be Found” which is one of two tracks that feature Thompson on drums, plus ...

MC50 -- featuring late MC5 member Wayne Kramer alongside members of Soundgarden, Faith No More, and Fugazi -- have announced ...

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 ...

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, so ...

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 ...

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Dennis Thompson, the original drummer of the pioneering counterculture rock band MC5, died Thursday, his son Chris McNulty announced. Thompson was recovering from a heart attack he suffered in April ...

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 ...

For decades, Wayne Kramer of the MC5 has kicked out the jams, but his latest mission has the 73-year-old rock icon and writer kicking down prison doors to let the music in — and he’s not doing it ...

The Icarus Line are playing a handful of dates with some guys that are actaully older than Primal Scream. Holy sheeeet. The band in question, the reformed (but not really) MC5, are a bit shit, but The ...

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 ...