MC5 Return With New Music, 2022 Tour Dates

MC5 has returned with new music for the first time in 50 years with their just-announced campaign called “We Are All MC5.”

The band posted a teaser for the first song, “Heavy Lifting,” from their new album set to release this fall. The track was co-written by Wayne Kramer, Brad Brooks and Tom Morello, and also features Don Was on bass and Abe Laboriel Jr. from Paul McCartney’s band on drums

While the full song’s release date is still undetermined, the upcoming MC5 album will be released in October.

“It’s been a long time since there’s been any new MC5 music,” Kramer said a video announcement. “I’ve been busy writing and recording a new album, produced by the great Bob Ezrin, and we’ll take it to the streets, ’cause I feel like we are all MC5.”

In a written statement, Kramer added, “I’ve come to understand that the music of the MC5 is as necessary as ever. It’s definitely high time to write and record new songs and to carry a message of uncompromising hard rock to fans around the world. We just barely survived four catastrophic years of a failed presidency and a devastating pandemic. Brad and I started writing new music with the express purpose of pushing back against the cruelty of it all. It had become so polarized and depressing that bringing in other writers was like a hope injection. … The results are earth-shaking rock ‘n’ roll.”

Watch the teaser clip and tour announcement below:

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