Results for John Sinclair

  • Buffy Sainte-Marie: Still Singing for Peace

    by Denise SullivanJune 26, 2009Comments (2)

    "Life on the road, going from reservation to reservation, city to city, and country to country, is just perfect for me." (read more)

  • Wayne Kramer: Mad for the Racket and Not Near Done

    by Denise SullivanOctober 1, 2008Comments (3)

    If ever there was a band of rock ‘n’ roll contrarians, it was Kramer's MC5, a ramshackle musical outfit typical of young bands in the post-Beatles/Stones era but with a trajectory that imploded them rather than skyrocketed them to fame. Claiming the avant-garde's Sun Ra and rock ‘n’ roll's Chuck Berry as inspiration, they started playing covers, and evolved to include in their repertoire grinding originals steeped (read more)

  • Protesty: Phil Ochs vs. The Nightwatchman

    by Denise SullivanJanuary 9, 2008Comments (2)

    One man, a guitar, and a serious message: That would describe Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, and Joe Strummer; their sisters in arms include Joan Baez and Ani DiFranco, among others. But when it comes to ‘60s folkman Phil Ochs and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello (read more)

  • Blog It Out Your Ass

    by Jason ThomasJuly 25, 2007Comments (4)

    Most of the complaints I have about the state of things in the music world these days have to do with the legacy industry, the old corporate record labels, and all the things that go along with them. After all, the times are changing (read more)

  • The Revolutionary Blues with John Sinclair

    by Denise SullivanJuly 18, 2007Comments (5)

    Not everyone can claim to have had a song written for him by John Lennon, but John Sinclair, poet, activist and former manager of Detroit rockers the MC5, can. (read more)