Mucca Pazza News

 
Mucca Pazza, 'Boss Taurus': Big Band, Itty-Bitty Stage
NPR (blog)
Mucca Pazza's new song, "Boss Taurus," feels like a musical debate: the trumpets make a declaration; there's a response from the guitars; and the lone tuba tries to get a word in edgewise. The pieces constantly break apart and then get back to working ...

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An Old-Fashioned Recording in West Orange
Baristanet
Mucca Pazza, a brass band from Chicago, will be recording its music on a wax cylinder phonograph—the same way sound was recorded in Edison's time more than a century ago. Edison invented the phonograph in 1877 and later the wax cylinders, ...


 
Nelsonville Fest Preview: Mucca Pazza
Donewaiting
Mucca Pazza isn't necessarily a band who's album would end up in my stereo on a Sunday morning, but live… good lord what a treat. The self-dubbed “circus-punk” clan of 3o or so characters made up of horns and percussion and cheerleaders and ...


 
Take it outdoors — Fests abound this summer
Chicago Sun-Times
Radio Disney will present a free family show at 11:30 am July 14 at the Petrillo, and the Bud Light Stage will showcase local performers, including Kids These Days (July12), Robbie Fulks (July 14), Mucca Pazza (July 12) and My My My (July 13).

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Acrobats, punk bands and parades: The Kennedy Center's 'Look Both Ways' festival
Washington Post
Hat-making workshops will be at noon, 2 and 4 pm, and processions are at 1, 3 and 4:30 pm With 30 marching musicians and a coterie of peppy cheerleaders, Chicago's Mucca Pazza certainly looks like a marching band, but it takes only a note or two to ...


 
Chicago remembers late author Studs Terkel, rededicates bridge named in his honor
Chicago Tribune
The street's name is reflected in the title of his first book of oral history, published in 1966. The book is called "Division Street: America." Saturday's events were festive and included music by the Mucca Pazza marching band as well as some drinks ...

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Balthrop, Alabama, 'You've Gotta Be Gay': Prisoners Meet Parasols
NPR (blog)
Like the Mucca Pazza video we posted last week, the video gives the feeling of a cohesive group of people having fun and putting on a show. It's kind of dorky and not everyone can kick very high, but they sell it by staying connected with each other.

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