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MC5 – The Title Track From Upcoming Album ‘HEAVY LIFTING’ Features TOM MORELLO

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

16 September 2024

With the passing of Wayne Kramer (75) last February and drummer
Dennis Thompson (75) last month all 5 original MC5 members are
gone. Together they released 3 longplayers, including their live classic
Kick Out The Jams (1969).

Back in 2022 Kramer broke the news that he was working on a new MC5 LP,
with co-songwriter Brad Brooks (they composed 12 of the 13 tracks together),
featuring famous guests like Tom Morello, Slash, Vernon Reid and many more.
It sounds more like a tribute to the iconic Detroit band.

Last month we got the confirmation of the new full length.
It’s named HEAVY LIFTING and comes out on October 18.

With the title track we all can go bonkers
to the 3rd preview from the upcoming LP.

Rage Against The Machine‘s guitar hero Tom Morello plays on the title track and says about the LP: “I think ‘Heavy Lifting’ is a record which certainly fits very well into the excellence of the MC5 catalog. It does stand as a testament to a lifetime of rock and roll greatness.”

Wake up people,
and do some
heavy lifting.

All 3 shared tracks


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5 New Sonic Injections To Start WEEK 32

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5-11 August 2024

Band: MC5
Who: Iconic punks
from Detroit, Michigan.


Original line-up

Track: CAN’T BE FOUND

Back in 2022 original guitarist Wayne Kramer (who passed away only last February) broke the news that he was working on a new MC5 LP, with co-songwriter Brad Brooks (they composed 12 of the 13 tracks together), featuring famous guests like Tom Morello, Slash, Vernon Reid, and several vocalists.

The record got finally produced by Bob Ezrin,
is called Heavy Lifting and comes out in October.

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Artist: JACK WHITE
(Born John Anthony Gillis)
Who: Former white stripe, also
maestro of The Raconteurs and
The Death Weather.

Track: WHAT’S THE RUMPUS
Highlight cut from his brand new 6th LP, titled No Name that dropped
last Friday without any promo singles ahead and no marketing tricks.

White return to his early blues-punk roots and it sounds DIRTY and ACE!


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Artist: FATHER JOHN MISTY
Who: The moniker of American singer-songwriter
Joshua Michael Tillman who has 15 LPs to his credit,
so far.

Track: I GUESS TIME JUST MAKES FOOLS OF US ALL

The one and only new song of his upcoming greatest hits album, named
Greatish Hits: I Followed My Dreams and My Dreams Said to Crawl,
out laeter this month.

FJM swings on this dancey/catchy new one.


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Band: CROWS
Who: Hefty post-punk
4-piece from London.


Album artwork

Track: VISION OF ME
Second shared piece from their upcoming, 3rd LP,
titled Reason Enough and out on September 27.

As haunting as ever. Early Editors echoes throughout.

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Artists: CHARLI XCX featuring BILLIE EILISH
Track: GUESS

A banger written by Charli, 100 gecs’ Dylan Brady
and the Dare, now remixed featuring Billie vocals.

Boom. Boom. Boom.
Sexy as hell.

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MC5 – After More Than 50 Years A New Album Titled ‘HEAVY LIFTING’ Featuring Several Famous Guests Comes Out In October

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11 June 2024

With the passing of Wayne Kramer (75) last February and drummer
Dennis Thompson (75) last month all 5 original MC5 members are
gone. Together they released 3 longplayers, including their live classic
Kick Out The Jams (1969)

Back in 2022 Kramer broke the news that he was working on a new MC5 LP,
with co-songwriter Brad Brooks (they composed 12 of the 13 tracks together),
featuring famous guests like Tom Morello, Slash, Vernon Reid and many more.
It sounds more like a tribute to the iconic Detroit band.

Kramer told Rolling Stone at the time: “We are all part of the same mindset, living
in the same world, and we all want to make a difference. Each collaborator to a person
has helped me to relay that message. Also, my songwriting with Brad Brooks has really
been a therapeutic process … for both of us. And then to layer Bob Ezrin on top added
a whole new layer of complexity that then widened my scope and my ideas even further.
It’s just an outgrowth of the band’s core ideology”

Bob Ezrin (the legendary producer of the LP): “It has a revolutionary message but also
a good sense of humor. There’s a little bit of heavy metal. There’s quite a bit of funk. But it
is a heavy record, and it’s a guitar record left, right and center — just a wall of guitars most
of the time, and mostly driven by Wayne and his ethos. It’s a snapshot of a guitar man at
the height of his powers. We all feel a responsibility to make sure that his work is heard,
and he is celebrated. We poured our hearts into the project.”

Heavy Lifting is slated for release in October. More details TBA.

The first taster is called BOYS PLAY WITH MATCHES. No idea who the singer is.
The track roars and rolls, but understandably, it’s impossible to bring back the
original MC5 kick out the jams spirit.

MC5: Website

MC5 – Kick Out The Jams One More Time, Motherfuckers

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11 May 2024


1969

With the passing of drummer Dennis Thompson, 2 days ago, after
a heart attack, aged 75, all original MC5 members are rockin’ their
asses off now in heaven, hell, and in between.

Vocalist Rob Tyner died in 1991, aged only 46, due to a heart attack.

Guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith who was married for 14 years to Patti
Smith and had 2 children together also passed away at the early age
of 46 following heart failure in 1994.

Guitarist Wayne Kramer who was working on a new MC5 album left us
last February, aged 75, after a long battle with cancer and bassist Michael
Davis didn’t survive liver failure in 2012, he was 68.

Kick out the jams one more time, Detroit motherfuckers.

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WAYNE KRAMER – Guitarist Of Kick Out The Jams Legends MC5 Dead At 75

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3 February 2024

Only 18 months ago WAYNE KRAMER, the guitarist and only surviving member of Detroit‘s legendary noise rock crusaders, announced that a new album would come out in October 2022. It would have been the band’s 3rd studio LP, following Back In The USA (1970) and High Time (1971). But it was with their first LP, a live on, named KICK OUT THE JAMS that they cemented their name for history. Since 1992 the band reunited regularly to play live.

The new longplayer, titled Heavy Lifting was planned to be released in October of 2022. But it wasn’t finished by then and last year Kramer announced that the album would be launched in 2024. Along the news came a snippet of the title track, written by Kramer with new MC5 singer Brad Brooks and longtime collaborator Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Against The Machine. They shared a snippet of the song. Watch/listen below.

Final tour.

This morning, I was shocked by the sad, surprising news of Kramer‘s untimely death.
He passed away yesterday due to pancreatic cancer. Rest in piece, motherrocker.

“Kick out the jams motherfuckers
Yeah I, I, I, I, I’m gonna
I’m gonna kick ’em out, yeah”

MC5: Bio – Discography

Little note: after writing a piece about the 50th birthday of MC5 back in 2018, and
the accompanying tour, Wayne Kramer became a follower of my Twitter account. A very, very special moment I will never forget.

Waking Up Kicking Out The Jams – Happy 75 To WAYNE KRAMER

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Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant

30 April 2023

The legendary Detroit noise-turbo MC5 shook the rock world
in 1969 with a maniacal motherfucker of a live album called
KICK OUT THE JAMS.

WAYNE KRAMER was their riff-rollin’ guitarist /co-founder who said
at the time that they were a soul band. He was born Wayne Kambes
on 30 April 1948.

Happy 75!

Kick out the jams motherfuckers
Yeah I, I, I, I, I’m gonna
I’m gonna kick ’em out, yeah

MC5: Bio – Discography