The new incarnation of the group has garnered rave reviews, both for its post-2000 reunion albums and its electrifying concerts. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Os Mutantes Sixties-era Brazilian group Os ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Although today, Brazil's proclivity for exporting hot beauty trends, Victoria's Secret models and good music has made it commonplace for Americans to treat their tresses with formaldehyde and their ...

Following a stint of dates with The Flaming Lips (none of which hit NY, or contain all of The Soft Bulletin) Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti will hit the road with the Brazilian Tropicalia greats Os ...

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 ...

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 ...

Os Mutantes -- literally, "the mutants" -- formed in 1966 when two teenagers, Rita Lee and Baptista's older brother Arnaldo, met in Sao Paulo at a high school band contest. Thirty years later, after ...