On a sweltering Friday night at the Echoplex, Sergio Dias led his band mates, Os Mutantes, on multiple musical excursions through rock & roll, samba, and bossa nova, with a bit of Kurt Weill thrown in ...

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 ...

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, ...

Sixties-era Brazilian group Os Mutantes has been namechecked by a Who's Who of groundbreaking musicians, from Beck to Kurt Cobain, the latter of whom famously pleaded in a 1993 open letter for the ...

One of the most influential Brazilian psychedelic rock bands of the Tropicalia movement, Os Mutantes recently released its first album in 35 years, Haih or Amortecedor. Formed by brothers Sergio and ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Legendary Brazilian psych band Os Mutantes returns to San Francisco Saturday, headlining a show at the Chapel in the Mission District with an opening set by songwriter Rogê. Along ...

Being a fan of Brazilian psych-rock heroes Os Mutantes in the U.S. isn’t the most casual thing that can happen, though happy accidents tend to play a role. The original trio dissolved in the 1970s, ...

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 ...