The following is a press release I wrote for the MC5 this week; we’re running it here because we promised to take you behind the scenes in the rock and roll industry, and these events illustrate what bands have to …
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Contents of print edition
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
FE Histories & Memoirs No Anarchy, No Money page 6 Offices as Autonomous Zones page 7 The History of the Fifth Estate by Peter Werbe page 8 Music as Revolution page 20 Giving Up the Gun Fetish page 21 Zapping …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 89, October 2-15, 1969
Brothers and Sisters, Enjoyed our paper over here in Nam. They really get worn from use. I’ll be back home to Detroit in 3 weeks so you should stop sending it. I will subscribe when I’m back.
High officials face White Panthers
by J. Oint
Fifth Estate # 105, May 14-27, 1970
“What the fuck are we going to do about those crazy White Panthers?” “I don’t know, man….I’m too wasted to even think about it.”
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967
Editors: I thought that “yellow journalism” had a reputation as bad as Lobsinger. I thought it had gone out with the Hearst newspapers, that its only remains were in such rags as the Inquirer. I was wrong.
White Panther Bike Run
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 83, July 10-23, 1969
The White Panther Bike Run and the people’s party at the U-M Arboretum July 6th turned out to be a quiet get together of freaks and young people without the usual interference by the pigs. Things started at 1:00 that …
Dave Dixon, Night Tripper
by Harvey Ovshinsky
Fifth Estate # 69, December 26, 1968-January 8, 1969
Which local all night disc jockey wards off the most obscene phone calls, brings down the most listeners who get sick on STP, and plays stud to all the lonely night people who listen to his show with one hand …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 1969
There has been considerable question as to where the Fifth Estate stands regarding an attack on the white left in our last issue and on a number of articles appearing in these pages by White Panther spokesmen. Political views that …
Chicago blows a big one!
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 68, December 12-25, 1968
CHICAGO, LNS—City Hall sources were buzzing this morning as the mayor’s office shamefacedly admitted to what may be one of the greatest blunders in the history of law enforcement. A mud-splattered blue Chevrolet van carrying 14 dangerous political criminals had …
Letters to the Editor
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
To the Editor: Please send one year’s subscription of this thing you call “The Fifth Estate’ to me. It gets pretty cold out here in the wintertime and I gotta have something to burn in my fireplace. Ever tried to …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 73, February 20-March 5, 1969
Dear Comrades, Just a short note of congratulations on your editors’ notes column in the last (Jan. 23) issue of the Fifth Estate. It is not often that a good cultural newspaper is willing to admit that the working class …
The New Sound of Sound
by Magdalene Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 2, December 2-16, 1965
Very soon now Wayne State University will finally become known across the country–not for its football team (I hope that will never happen), or for its student sit-ins (unfortunately, that will never happen either), but for the fine presentations of …
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 64, October 17-30, 1968
Last issue’s front cover was done by Detroit photographer Tom Burt. Fifth Estate readers may remember Tom’s work from a previous front cover and you can expect to see more in the months to come. Tom has a fantastic collection …
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
Emily’s, the downtown shop where all the nicey-nice smile faces go to get their over-priced touchy-feely thingys is apparently plagued with the same problem as any other Motor City store—shoplifting. The proprietor has displayed a sign reading, “Free double-dip ice …
The Coat-Puller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 8, May, 1966
There seem to have been a lot of very hip things going on in Detroit lately, though from my (disad-)vantage point I can only read about them or hear of them on the radio. I heard very beautiful things about …
MC5 “Live” at the Grande
by A. Freek
Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968
Detroit’s friendly neighborhood rock and roll band, the MC5, recorded their first album under their new contract with Elektra Records at the Grande Ballroom last month, and it was a killer affair. The festivities took place on the First International …
The Coat-Puller
by Magdalene Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 11, July 30, 1966
The Sunday night sessions at the Artists’ Workshop (4857 John Lodge) have been getting better both in audience attendance and in presentation. Last Sunday’s (July 17) featured poet Tom Mitchell and the music of the Workshop Music Ensemble, this time …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 61, Sept. 5-18, 1968
Dear Sirs, I have been a subscriber to your paper for a long time and hope to be a subscriber for a long time to come, but that’s not why I wrote. I wish to congratulate you on your last …
Elektra buys 5
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 63, October 3-16, 1968
In a lightning move, Elektra Records signed the MC5 and the Stooges to long-term recording contracts in New York September 26. The move was engineered by Elektra’s publicity director, Danny Fields, who flew out to hear the bands last weekend …
The Inner City Has a Voice
Fifth Estate # 42, November 15-30, 1967
There is an obvious need for revolutionary media in the black community, states editor John Watson in explaining the creation of a new newspaper for the black community.