News / Shows
MC50 among Muddy Roots Festival headliners

Posted by Loren on August 9, 2019

MC50 among Muddy Roots Festival headliners
photo by Loren Green

The Muddy Roots Music Festival will take place August 30-September 1 this year in Cookebille, TN, with a diverse lineup of more than 70 bands. Notable headliners include a revised MC5 lineup now going by the moniker MC50, Face to Face, Off!, Municipal Waste, GZA (with live band), and new projects featuring John Garcia and Nick Oliveri, The Adicts, The Skatalites, and more.

MC50's lineup includes Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Brendan Canty (Fugazi), Billy Gould (Faith No More), and Marcus Durant (Zen Guerilla). 

MC50 among Muddy Roots Festival headliners
photo by Loren Green

Related news stories

Call Me Animal: A Tribute to the MC5

Posted in Records on February 12, 2024

Related album reviews

Off!

Free LSD
Fat Possum Records (2022)

Blistering fast-paced Punk Rock energy proton pills shoved down your esophagus. Gobble Gobble. Glug Glug Glug, Rallllph... Let’s Get It On and not like the Ed Sheeran Remake ha ha ha. Everyone's loveable favourite punk that seemingly appears in every Punk Rock documentary…Keith Morris continues to pulverize, perpetuate, pontificate and ponder life, death and all that other gobbly gook in … Read more

Municipal Waste

Electrified Brain
Nuclear Blast (2022)

Professional party metal/thrash crossover ragers Municipal Waste are back with their seventh studio album and what a triumphant return it is too! Their last album Slime And Punishment released back in 2017 (which seems like a really long time ago) was fun but for some reason I was not that into it as I have been with their other stuff. Their 2019 … Read more

Off!

Wasted Years
Vice (2014)

I generally hate punctuation in a band name, but it’s uncommonly fitting with Off!. Sure, they only included it to keep the pesticide theme going, but every scrap of vitriol that Keith Morris shouts out in the lyrics deserves to be followed with the exclamation point. It’s loud, shocked, and direct as hell. Almost every song uses the first or … Read more