The MC5 were known for their raw, uncompromising music, which they envisioned as the soundtrack for the uprising to come. By The Associated Press Wayne Kramer, the co-founder of the protopunk Detroit ...

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NEW YORK — Before there was the Clash, Nirvana or Rage Against the Machine there was the MC5. “The MC5 was playing punk rock music before there was a name for it,” says Tom Morello, a Rock & Roll Hall ...

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 band’s ...

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Wayne Kramer, a quiet giant of Detroit music who helped define the city’s loud rock sound, died Friday after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 75. Kramer passed away at Cedars-Sinai ...

NEW YORK — Wayne Kramer, the co-founder of the protopunk Detroit band the MC5 that thrashed out such hardcore anthems as “Kick Out the Jams” and influenced everyone from the Clash to Rage Against the ...

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