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Wayne Kramer Reactivates MC5 for New Music, Spring Tour
Fresh off the MC5’s nomination to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, co-founder/guitarist Wayne Kramer is reactivating the hugely influential Detroit rock’n’roll group with its first new music since 1972 and a spring U.S. tour, beginning May 5 in its Motor City hometown. A snippet of one new song, “Heavy Lifting,” was shared today. The track was co-written with vocalist Brad Brooks and Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello and also features producer Don Was and Paul McCartney’s drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. The second new track, “Edge of the Switchblade,” is a reimagining of a track from Kramer’s 1995 solo album The Hard Stuff, with guest vocals from latter-day Alice In Chains frontman William Duvall. [embedded content][embedded content] Release dates for the two new tracks have yet to be...
Tom Morello, Kathy Valentine and More Cover Eurythmics’ ‘Sweet Dreams’
A group of legendary artists including Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, Foo Fighters’ Rami Jaffee and The Go-Go’s Kathy Valentine joined Girl with a Guitar, a group of young female guitarists from Kabul, Afghanistan to cover Eurythmics’ 1983 hit “Sweet Dreams.” [embedded content] Guitarist Vicki Peterson of The Bangles, singer Cherie Currie of The Runaways, guitarist Wayne Kramer of MC5, drummer Kris Myers of Umphrey’s McGee, The Bird and the Bee’s Greg Kurstin and singer Inara George also contributed their talents to the rendition. The new cover not only sheds light on the hardships children, particularly girls, are facing in war-torn countries, but also hopes to raise money for The Miraculous Love Kids, an organization that raises awareness, resources and funds for some of the mos...
