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MC5: The MC5: Kick Out the Jams (Elektra)

Review by Miller Francis jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 17 March 1969

"Works of art which lack artistic quality have no force, however progressive they are politically. Therefore, we oppose both works of art with a wrong ...

MC5 Brings Back Body Rock To Overthrow The Country

Report by Mike Jahn, Pop Scene Service, 24 March 1969

NEW YORK (PSS) – MC5, the Detroit rock band, has released its first album, Kick Out the Jams. Headquartered in Ann Arbor, near Detroit, MC5 ...

MC5: Kick Out The Jams (Elektra EKS-74042)

Review by Mick Farren, International Times, 28 March 1969

MC5 Muddle ...

MC5: The Story Of The MC5 On The West Coast In March Part One

Report by John Sinclair, Ann Arbor Argus, 28 March 1969

John Sinclair, Minister of Information, White Panther Party ...

MC5: Kick Out The Jams

Review by Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone, 5 April 1969

WHOEVER THOUGHT when that dirty little quickie Wild In The Streets came out that it would leave such an imprint on the culture? First the ...

MC5: Kick Out The Jams (Elektra EKS-74042)

Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, May 1969

'Ramblin' Rose'; 'Kick Out The Jams'; 'Come Together'; 'Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)'; 'Borderline'; 'Motor City Is Burning'; 'I Want You ...

Fats Domino, Flying Burrito Brothers, MC5, Moby Grape, Neil Young, Paul Winter Consort, John Braden: Albums from the MC5, Neil Young, Flying Burrito Brothers et al

Review by John Mendelssohn, UCLA Daily Bruin, 7 May 1969

"I guess you could say our thing is a condemnation of everything that is false and deceitful in our society." — John Sinclair, of the ...

MC5: The MC5

Profile and Interview by Lita Eliscu, East Village Other, 14 May 1969

ROCKET ROCKET ROCKET to the — YEAHHHHH the — Fuckit yeah yeah sheeeeit baby Get. Down. On. It. Cmon mothahfuckahs CMON MOTHAH-FUCKAHS MAKE FUCK A ...

MC5 Plays Basic Rock

Profile by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 21 June 1969

MC5, THE raucous rock band from Detroit, is playing through tomorrow night at Ungano's, a club at 210 West 70th Street. ...

MC5: The MC5 Interview

Interview by David G. Walley, Jazz & Pop, July 1969

THIS INTERVIEW took place in the New York apartment of the MC5's press agent Danny Fields, the day after the Detroit band signed their new ...

Jethro Tull, MC5: Fillmore West, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 21 November 1969

Good Music and Giggling Foolishness ...

MC5: The MC5 is a Whole Thing

Press Release by John Sinclair, Countdown, 1970

THERE IS NO way to get at the music without taking the whole context of the music too – there is no separation. We say ...

MC5: Back In The USA (Atlantic)

Review by Ben Edmonds, Fusion, 20 March 1970

WHAT A difference a year can make. This time last year the MC5 were riding high on the crest of the biggest hype in the ...

MC5: Back in the USA

Review by Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone, 14 May 1970

WOP-BOP-A-LU-BOP-A-LOP-BAM-BOOM. Thud. 'Tutti Frutti', which opens the partly excellent MC5 album, is easily the worst cut on it, and in a way a clue to ...

MC5, Up, The: Rock For...

Essay by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 4 July 1970

THE LIFE of the young rock and roll musician is and has always been filled with the bitter contradictions of honko Amerika................. ...

MC5 Problem

Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 8 August 1970

THE MC5 are a very good, very determined rock band. In the old days when people weren't too bothered about listening to them, they used ...

Humble Pie, Matthews' Southern Comfort, MC5, May Blitz: MC5, Matthew's Southern Comfort, Humble Pie, May Blitz: The Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 8 August 1970

ON THE surface it seemed crazy — 1,500 kids packed into a hot stuffy old engine shed, while outside the temperature was in the seventies. ...

MC5 — Still The Bad Boys Of Rock

Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 8 August 1970

ONE THING that American rock bands can generally do better than their British counterparts is to channel their energy into the notes. ...