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“It caught me by surprise, in a level I was not prepared, like a punch to the solar plexus.” Sérgio Dias’ ebullient voice admits he was late to understand the recent impact Os Mutantes had on ...

Rita Lee, the Brazilian singer, musician, composer and a founder of Os Mutantes, has died. She was 75. "We communicate the passing of Rita Lee, in her home, in São Paulo, late last night, surrounded ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Forty years after they first formed, one of Brazil’s most influential music groups reunited to plenty of international fanfare in 2006. At first, however, that reunion came as a surprise to the ...

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 ...

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.

The hipster and indie aud for the Os Mutantes show at the El Rey was much younger then you'd expect to see for a band that broke up in 1978. Although the songs played were older than most of the aud, ...

Os Mutantes were one of the most influential rock groups to emerge during the late ’60s in Brazil. The band – initially a trio with Rita Lee, Arnaldo Baptista and his brother Sergio Dias – fell under ...

Os Mutantes emerged from Brazil in the late 1960s, fusing breezy Tropicália grooves with the heady, kaleidoscopic aesthetic of psychedelic rock. Following their breakup in the late 1970s, the band ...

Almost three decades after the last incarnation of Os Mutantes played its final gig, the seminal Brazilian rock band has reunited for its first tour of the United States, including a performance on ...