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 ...

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 ...

The reunion of Os Mutantes – minus Rita Lee, of course – a couple of years ago was one of the more unexpected in recent years, not least because, as legend has it, Arnaldo Baptista hasn’t been in the ...

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 ...

Hailing from the metropolis of São Paulo, the Brazilian Tropicália band Os Mutantes’s (which translates to “The Mutants”) 1968 self-titled album somehow sounds as if The Beatles moved to South America ...

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 ...

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 ...

Encountering cult Brazilian Tropicália band Os Mutantes is like hearing your favourite 1960s groups (plus a few from the 1970s) passed through a steampunk blender. With their go-go beats, dreamy ...

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 ...