MC5

Alice Cooper
- Music Reviews
- March 9, 2021
Detroit Stories (Earmusic). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
L.A.M.F.: The Heartbreakers’ Live at the Bowery Electric
- Screen Reviews
- February 15, 2018
Punk heroes unite to give a rowdy look at the classic L.A.M.F. album 40 years down the road.
Louder Than Love – The Grande Ballroom Story
- Screen Reviews
- May 31, 2016
Detroit in the 1960’s was a hard city going through hard times. The music that come out of Detroit was incubated at the Grande Ballroom. Wayne Kramer (MC5), Ted Nugent and many others remember the wild times.
Detroit Rebellion
- Music Reviews
- October 18, 2013
The Detroit Rebellion of ’67 EP. Review by Carl F Gauze.
Detroit Rock City
- Print Reviews
- May 23, 2013
The once vital city of Detroit gave us the auto industry and punk rock. Detroit Rock City shares the heights — and the depths — of the Motor City. James Mann says “Kick out the jams!”
The Fuzztones
- Music Reviews
- May 20, 2013
Snake Oil (Cleopatra Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Loop
- Music Reviews
- February 20, 2013
Heaven’s End/ Fade Out/ The World In Your Eyes/ A Gilded Eternity (Reactor/Revolver). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Loop
- Music Reviews
- February 20, 2013
Heaven’s End/ Fade Out/ The World In Your Eyes/ A Gilded Eternity (Reactor/Revolver). Review by Matthew Moyer.
The Stooges: Head On
- Print Reviews
- November 3, 2011
Brett Callwood’s comprehensive book on the criminally overlooked Stooges doesn’t, this time, focus completely on Iggy Pop.
Chain & The Gang
- Music Reviews
- May 19, 2011
Music’s not for Everyone (K). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Forever Changes: Arthur Lee and the Book of Love
- Print Reviews
- October 29, 2010
Carl F Gauze reviews this extremely thorough biography of an obscure but groundbreaking musician from the glory days of Sunset Strip.
GOLD: Before Woodstock. Beyond Reality.
- Screen Reviews
- August 17, 2010
Hippies! Free love! Boobs! MC5! So why is this “lost classic” such a bummer, man?
Harvestman / US Christmas / Minsk
- Music Reviews
- June 11, 2010
Hawkwind Triad (Neurot). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Patti Smith: Dream Of Life
- Screen Reviews
- January 14, 2010
Patti Smith is artfully captured over 11 years, showing America’s punk poet as mother, daughter, rebel, and widow. James Mann finds it a beautiful and captivating portrait of one of our greatest artists.

Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth
- Print Reviews
- May 6, 2009
Peter Wild and a group of authors take on the challenge of making literature out of Sonic Youth’s noisy, chaotic, shimmering music. S D Green has some warnings for fans of Sonic Youth who may be intrigued.
The Points
- Music Reviews
- January 30, 2009
The Points (Mud Memory). Review by Jen Cray.
Iggy and the Stooges: Escaped Maniacs
- Screen Reviews
- September 11, 2008
Rip your shirt off and check out Iggy Pop‘s shake appeal… Scott Adams tells Ink 19 The Stooges are really big in Belgium right now.
The American Black Lung
- Music Reviews
- July 10, 2007
Sudden Departure Vultures (Uprising). Review by Jen Cray.
Riverboat Gamblers
- Interviews
- December 6, 2006
During their short tour opening for the legendary Joan Jett, Texas’ most valuable export-Riverboat Gamblers– invited Jen Cray up to their dressing room for an informal chat before their set.
Starlite Desperation
- Interviews
- November 10, 2006
Dante Adrian, the mastermind behind the psychedelic garage punk band Starlite Desperation, chatted with Jen Cray about being a free agent in an industry currently drowning in the wake of their own greed.

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- Music Reviews
- January 21, 2022
Broken English (Nettwork Records). Review by James Mann.
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- Screen Reviews
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- Music Reviews
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- Archikulture Digest
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- Print Reviews
- January 14, 2022
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- Mann About Sound
- January 13, 2022
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- Screen Reviews
- January 12, 2022
12 film box set of films from the legendary Hong Kong film studio, Shaw Brothers .
Seafarers
- Music Reviews
- January 10, 2022
// (Self released). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
The Black Keys
- Music Reviews
- January 7, 2022
El Camino (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Nonesuch Records). Review by Jeremy Glazier.
HARD + FAST
- Print Reviews
- January 5, 2022
A look back at the early days of Los Angeles punk through the lens of photographer Melanie Nissen and her new book HARD + FAST.