Os Mutantes (The Mutants) from Brazil will appear along with the Ghost Funk Orchestra out of New York will perform Aug. 29 at Arcata Playhouse, 1591 Ninth St., Arcata. Os Mutantes is an influential ...

Legendary Brazilian psychedelic rock band Os Mutantes’ concert at the Space Ballroom Tuesday night was a show that almost didn’t happen. At 11 the night before, on a turnpike in New Hampshire, a piece ...

At a time when Brazilian music tended to look inward, Os Mutantes kicked the door open to new international currents, embracing the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix in the face of left-wing parochialism and ...

Rita Lee, a founding vocalist of Brazilian psych-rock legends Os Mutantes, has died. Lee – who earned the title of Brazil’s “Queen of Rock” for her work both in Os Mutantes and as a solo artist – was ...

This week, the pioneering Brazilian band Os Mutantes will perform in this country for the first time. The group came to prominence in 1968, as part of the Tropicalia movement that polarized Brazil.

Today is the day you dip your toes into the mysterious waters of Brazilian psychedlia. Os Mutantes’ latest album, Fool Metal Jack, expands on the band’s pioneering approach first dished up in the late ...

Kurt Cobain couldn’t pull it off. But Milwaukee’s Cactus Club did. Back in 1993, when Nirvana ruled the world, Cobain tried, and failed, to get Os Mutantes back together, 15 years after the Brazilian ...

The Brazilian band Os Mutantes ascended to legendary status in the 1960s with infusions of rock, psychedelic music and extraneous sounds. The group is credited with influencing a broad range of ...

Rita Lee, one of Brazil’s top-selling rock artists and an original member of the tropicalia band Os Mutantes, died on May 5 after struggling with lung cancer. She was 75. The news was confirmed on ...

Though over the years there had been much speculation about an Os Mutantes reunion concert, such an event would not happen until almost 30 years after the breakup of their final lineup in 1978. In ...