One irresistible facet of the MC5’s live show was that they ramped up the energy with choreographed, showband stage moves that were intrinsically Detroit, and very Motown: “We loved Motown ...

CLEVELAND — Decades after unleashing a broadside of Detroit rock energy — and following years of frustrating snubs — the MC5 got justice at last from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

MC5 was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday. The band made it in on the Musical Excellence award after being nominated six times over the years. The Detroit band, often ...

So everything moves through that, from Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels to the MC5, The Stooges, and The White Stripes. They all come out of that tradition." If Motown represented Detroit's ...

Georgia Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson, a strong proponent of Supreme Court reform, says term limits for the justices is a way to eliminate "the possibility of long-term rot and decay" that he argues ...

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 ...

5 /6 JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM Hank Adaniya, right, took a selfie Thursday with longtime regular customer J.J. Johnson, director of the Honolulu Marathon, at Hank’s Haute Dogs.

Makiki resident Clayton Takara, right, says his farewell to owner Hank Adaniya, left, at Hank’s Haute Dogs on Thursday. Adaniya was looking forward to retirement and the next chapter of his life ...

As an enthusiastic student of rock history, he was familiar with the nuts and bolts of MC5 lore, from singer Rob Tyner’s hippie Afro to the band’s Grande Ballroom home base and its ...

The legendary rock band MC5, a cornerstone in the development of punk rock, has officially been welcomed into an institution that once stood in stark sonic rebellion against the Rock & Roll Hall ...

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 of ...