Genres: Hard Rock, Proto-Punk, Detroit Rock Active: 60's, 70's Formed: 1964 in Detroit, MI
The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, The Who, The Doors, Little Richard, Link Wray, The Yardbirds, John Coltrane, The Seeds, Mitch Ryder, The Animals, The Kinks, The Kingsmen, James Brown, The Beatles, Sun Ra The Stooges, New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, The Ramones, The Rationals, Frijid Pink, Bob Seger, Dick Wagner, SRC, Up, Blue Cheer, Mitch Ryder, ? & the Mysterians, Brownsville Station, The Pretty Things, Faces, Unrelated Segments, Bob Seger & the Last Heard, The Frost The Dictators, Radio Birdman, Big Chief, The Mooney Suzuki, Mark Lansing and his Board of Water & Light, The Fluid, The Celibate Rifles, Mudhoney, Motörhead, Tokyo Sex Destruction, Oneida, The Streetwalkin' Cheetahs, Alice Cooper, Bent Wind, The Hellacopters, Swervedriver, Black Flag, Black Moses, Birdhouse |  |
Alongside their Detroit-area brethren the Stooges, MC5 essentially laid the foundations for the emergence of punk; deafeningly loud and uncompromisingly intense, the group's politics were ultimately as crucial as their music, their revolutionary sloganeering and anti-establishment outrage crystallizing the counterculture movement at its most volatile and threatening. Under the guidance of svengali John Sinclair (the infamous founder of the radical White Panther Party), MC5 celebrated the holy trinity of sex, drugs, and rock & roll, their incendiary live sets offering a defiantly bacchanalian counterpoint to the peace-and-love reveries of their hippie contemporaries.
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Release: March 10, 2009
Label: Cleopatra
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Release: December 1, 2009
Label: Lilith
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