NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Os Mutantes on 10 September 2021. Os Mutantes has been played on NTS over 90 times, featured on 77 episodes and was first played on 28 September 2013.

Os Mutantes is a Brazilian psychedelic rock band formed during the Tropicalista Movement in 1966, in São Paulo, by Arnaldo Baptista, Rita Lee and Sérgio Dias.

The band is considered one of the main groups in Brazilian rock. Like most groups from the 1960s, Os Mutantes were heavily influenced by The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and Sly & the Family Stone. However, Brazilian musicians were also immersed in their local…