Courtesy Shore Fire MediaThe itinerary for MC5‘s 50th anniversary tour, dubbed MC50, has been revealed. The North American leg kicks off September 5 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and the jams will wrap up October 26 and 27 with a two-night hometown stand in Detroit.
For ticket info, visit MC50th.com.
The MC50 lineup includes founding guitarist Wayne Kramer, along with Soundgarden‘s Kim Thayil, Fugazi‘s Brendan Canty, bassist Dug Pinnick of King’s X, and Zen Guerrilla frontman Marcus Durant. Each night on the tour, Kramer and company will be playing MC5’s classic debut Kick Out the Jams in its entirety, along with an ever-changing encore.
“This band will rip your head off,” says Kramer in a statement. “It’s real, raw, sweaty, total energy rock and roll, like a bunch of 40-to-70-year-old punks on a meth power trip.”
Here are the MC50 tour dates:
9/5 — Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Revolution Live
9/6 — St. Augustine, FL, Backyard Stage at St. Augustine Amphitheatre
9/7 — Atlanta, GA, Variety Playhouse
9/8 — Raleigh, NC, Hopscotch Music Festival
9/9 — Nashville, TN, Exit/In
9/11 — Washington, D.C., 9:30 Club
9/12 — New Haven, CT, College Street Music Hall
9/13 — Boston, MA, Paradise Rock Club
9/14 — Huntington, NY, The Paramount
9/15 — Philadelphia, PA, Union Transfer
9/17 — New York, NY, Irving Plaza
9/18 — Montreal, QC, Corona Theatre
9/19 — Toronto, ON, Danforth Music Hall
9/21 — Pittsburgh, PA, Mr. Smalls Theatre
9/22 — Grand Rapids, MI, 20 Monroe Live
9/23 — Cleveland, OH, House of Blues
9/25 — Milwaukee, WI, Turner Hall Ballroom
9/26 — St. Louis, MO, The Ready Room
9/28 — Austin, TX, Mohawk
9/29 — Dallas, TX, Granada Theater
10/1 — Phoenix, AZ, The Marquee
10/2 — Las Vegas, NV, Brooklyn Bowl
10/3 — San Diego, CA, House of Blues
10/4 — San Francisco, CA, The Regency Ballroom
10/5 — Los Angeles, CA, John Anson Ford
10/15 — Portland, OR, Roseland Theater
10/16 — Seattle, WA, The Showbox
10/17 — Vancouver, BC, Commodore Ballroom
10/19 — Salt Lake City, UT, Metro Music Hall
10/20 — Denver, CO, Gothic Theatre
10/23 — Minneapolis, MN, Varsity Theater
10/24 — Chicago, IL, Metro Chicago
10/25 — Cincinnati, OH, Bogart’s
10/26 — Detroit, MI, St. Andrew’s Hall
10/27 — Detroit, MI, The Fillmore
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