“We were kids,” Sergio Dias Baptista says. “I was 16 when we had a coup d’etat here in 1964. Everything changed and there was repression. Of course, we would fight back, but we fought back laughing ...

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 ...

Tipitina's, 501 Napoleon Ave., 895-8477; www.tipitinas.com Tickets $20 advance purchase, $25 door There is no direct American analogue to the Tropicalistas, the loose collective of artists, actors, ...