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MC5 will release a new album on Oct. 18. Heavy Lifting marks the band’s first studio record in 53 years. The album was spearheaded by the band’s founding guitarist Wayne Kramer, who died in February. Produced by Bob Ezrin, Heavy Lifting includes performances by original MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson, who died in May, on two songs. Guests on the album include Slash, Tom Morello, Alice in Chains‘ William DuVall, Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid and Don Was. Kramer cowrote 12 of the album’s 13 songs. It will be available in CD, vinyl and digital formats; two-CD and two-LP versions featuring bonu...
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Dennis Thompson, the drummer and last remaining member of MC5, has died at the age of 75. According to the Detroit Free Press, Thompson passed away at MediLodge of Taylor, a care facility outside of Detroit. The rocker had been rehabilitating there following a heart attack suffered in April. In a 2018 post on his website, Thompson recalled catching “the bug for playing music” when he was just 13 years old. “My parents were disappointed that I chose the band over school but they supported my decision,” the rocker wrote. “Who would know what fate had in store for me. If my parents ever thought I...
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John Sinclair, a counterculture icon who managed Detroit rockers MC5 during their peak years, has died. He was 82. His representative confirmed that the Michigan native died of congestive heart failure, The Detroit News reported. In addition to managing MC5, Sinclair was known as a poet, a political activist, a vocal marijuana advocate and the leader of the White Panther Party, an anti-racist group named in response to the radical Black Panther Party. “He was on the forefront of the marijuana movement,” Sinclair’s representative, Matt Lee, told The Detroit News. “But I don’t think people reali...
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