In 2020, Wayne Kramer found himself in a funk. Frustrated by the Trump presidency, distressed by the COVID-19 pandemic, he was grumpy about America’s state of affairs. And so the Detroit-born ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wayne Kramer, a quiet giant of Detroit music who helped define the city's loud rock sound, died Friday after a brief battle with ...

LOS ANGELES — The tributes that poured in following Wayne Kramer's death last week came from musicians praising the MC5 guitarist's contributions to rock music, as well as from prison reform advocates ...

Wayne Kramer, the co-founder of the proto-punk Detroit band the MC5 that thrashed out such hardcore anthems as “Kick Out the Jams” and influenced groups such as the Clash and Rage Against the Machine, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wayne Kramer, the influential guitarist from the seminal garage rock band the MC5 has died at 75, according to his Instagram page. Kramer's social page did not provide additional details about the ...

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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 ...

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 ...