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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 ...

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 ...

Formed in São Paulo in the late 1960s, Os Mutantes were at the heart of Brazil’s radical Tropicália movement, blending psychedelic rock, traditional Brazilian sounds, surrealist lyrics, and an ...

We’re closing in on 60 years since Os Mutantes emerged as one of the weirder entities from Brazil’s tropicalia movement. The psychedelic rock band came creeping out of São Paulo and put out a ...

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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 ...

A fan of the late Rita Lee pays his respects at the public wake in São Paulo, Brazil. His sign makes reference to "Ovelha Negra" (or black sheep in Portuguese), a song from 1975's Fruto Proibido. Rita ...

Rita Lee, the legendary Brazilian musician at the forefront of the Tropicália movement as the co-founder and lead singer for Os Mutantes, died Monday, May 8. She was 75. Lee’s family confirmed her ...

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 ...

Rita Lee, a founding member of Tropicália group Os Mutantes who was regarded as Brazil’s “Queen of Rock,” has died, according to a statement posted on the musician’s official Instagram page. There ...