Smith dedicated the song to her late husband, MC5’s Fred SmithThe post Patti Smith covers Lana Del Rey’s ‘Summertime Sadness’ appeared first on NME.

The Rage Against The Machine guitarist played an intimate gig in Camden last night (June 13)The post Watch Tom Morello cover MÃ¥neskin and MC5 with Thomas Raggi in London appeared first on NME.

None of the members of MC5, the rabble-rousing Detroit proto-punk legends, are with us anymore. MC5 only released three albums, and they broke up after the release of 1971’s High Time. In recent years, guitarist Wayne Kramer and drummer Dennis Thompson toured with a revived version of MC5, with various rock icons standing in for the la...

On Friday night, Lenny Kaye and friends performed as part of the celebration surrounding the 50th anniversary of the Nuggets compilation, which Kaye started putting together in 1972. The show took place at The Cut in Gloucester, MA, and a bunch of musicians were around to help out to cover songs that appeared on the compilation and some that did...

Dennis Thompson, drummer and final surviving member of Detroit proto-punk heroes MC5, has died. The Detroit Free Press reports that Thompson passed away yesterday morning at MediLodge in Taylor, Michigan; he’d been staying there while recovering from a heart attack in April. Thompson’s death comes just months after MC5 guitar...