MC5

How Toledo is preparing for next week's solar eclipse, honoring the life and legacy of poet and activist John Sinclair, a novelist's contemporary riff on Jane Austen’s "Sense and Sensibility," and a documentary on jazz from Detroit premiering at the Detroit Free Press Film Festival.

Sinclair’s 1969 arrest for marijuana possession made him the spiritual father and eventually grandfather of Michigan’s marijuana movement.

Wayne Kramer, co-founder of the protopunk Detroit band the MC5 that thrashed out such hardcore anthems as “Kick Out the Jams” and influenced everyone from the Clash to Rage Against the Machine, has died at age 75.

On today's show, what an impending rail strike could mean for Michigan's chemical and agricultural industries. Then, we spoke with Wayne Kramer — co-founder of the Detroit rock band MC5. Plus, we revisited a conversation about plans for a passenger rail line to connect southeast Michigan to the north side of the state.

Guitarist and founding MC5 member Wayne Kramer talks rekindling the legendary Detroit band's fire ahead of upcoming tour and album.

Congressman Fred Upton is retiring after over 30 years in office. Also, how dark money is shaping the race for Michigan attorney general. Plus, a conversation with Wayne Kramer, part of the legendary Detroit band MC5.

Could 2017 be MC5's year? Detroit Music Magazine Publisher Paul Young and Executive Editor Khalid Bhatti think so. After two unsuccessful nominations to…