Artist: Mucca Pazza

Nelsonville Music Festival Saturday May 19, 2012 Andrew Bird Time & Temperature Mucca Pazza Jessica Lea Mayfield Shivering Timbers Jessica Lea Mayfield [...]

Nelsonville Music Festival Sunday, May 20, 2012 M. Ward Dawes Todd Snider M. Ward Dawes [...]

Note: I'll be trickling out some previews for sets that I'll be sure to catch at the Nelsonville Music Festival throughout the week. This is a rough chronological order. 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 who-knows-what else don thrift store band uniforms and make a spectacle of your middle school marching band nightmares. [...]

This summer will bring the return of the big band sounds of Mucca Pazza . The band is releasing their lastest effort, Safety Fifth on June 12th through Electric Cowbell Records. As the album's sampler below will beautifully illustrate, Mucca Pazza is a wild cross-roads of circus band, marching band, swing band, and garage band. Their performances are epic and sound is one of a kind. You can catch Mucca Pazza at Auditorium Theatre on May 12th as they open for Andrew Bird at 7pm. They will also be performing on the Studs [...]

Lasers and Fast and Shit TGIF, people! Get out there and forget this work week ever happened by having a little fun. We're talking great shows at the Double Door, Empty Bottle and Cole's. Let's get with "it" before they change what "it" was. FRIDAY SWIMSUIT ADDITION Nothing gets you through an immensely long day that never seems to [...]

Mucca Pazza came to Headliners on thursday night, they played the show with another Chicago band Schwinntonation who seemed to be very enthused to be there, proven by the musical lesson we received about intonation, which ended up being the definition for tonality. They used different parts from bikes to execute their soft looped sounds. It was a slow performance and was a strange lead up to the main event. Mucca Pazza starts the show in the middle of the crowd, with their horns and hats running through the audience getting everyone ready for the party that was about to [...]

Mucca Pazza Three welp-I'm-back-in-the-USA-so-le t's-get-to-it reasons to wear sunscreen folks and head over to the old Pritzker Pavilion in Millenium Park this early evening... 1. Nothing says happy birthday America more than a punk rock marching band. No, seriously. Like, a marching band is quintessential Americana at its most shallow. But Mucca Pazza highlight the true rabble and fucked upped-ness that is these here United States. I'm not being political, see. I'm just saying John Phillip Souza is the ideal and Mucca Pazza are the reality. John Phillip [...]

The Empty Bottle is teaming up once again with Goose Island and I Am Logan Square to produce a new free monthly summer concert series to take place at the Illinois Centennial Memorial Column at 2595 N. Milwaukee Ave. Starting June 26 and running until October 9, the Bottle plans to bring musical acts such as experimental rockers Califone , metal super group Bloodiest and San Francisco psych-rockers Thee Oh Sees to perform at its Sunday afternoon concert on the Logan Square monument. All shows are free with RSVP [...]

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Chicago's massive circus-punk marching band, Mucca Pazza , need your help to bring their upcoming dance film to the big screen. Let's back track a bit first, though. Per the Chicago Reader , local filmmaker Daniele Wilmouth won a grant from the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) last year to fund a 10-minute dance film, titled "Marching Banned," featuring Mucca Pazza. Wilmouth and the band have launched a Kickstarter to raise at least $4,000 for the film's distribution, and, so far, has raised [...]

It's Sunday night, and the smell of marijuana is thick in the orchestra pit at the Orpheum. Fans in pig masks shout "Fuck you Les!", "Fuck you Larry!", and "Primus... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .

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Forecastle was almost three weeks ago and we're still recovering. Time to spin all this nice vinyl purchased from this weekend and crack down on some posting. We, Backseat Sandbar (THE Backseat Sandbar), present to you the reader (THE reader): Forecastle 2010 Recap: Day 2 * Also, I know the post throws the pictures off a bit, so check out our Picasa album of Day 2 to see more pics! Lucky Pineapple Joey on [...]

Forecastle was almost three weeks ago and we're still recovering. Time to spin all this nice vinyl purchased from this weekend and crack down on some posting. We, Backseat Sandbar (THE Backseat Sandbar), present to you the reader (THE reader): Forecastle 2010 Recap: Day 2 * Also, I know the post throws the pictures off a bit, so check out our Picasa album of Day 2 to see more pics! Lucky Pineapple Joey on [...]

Mucca Pazza DAY 2: Saturday @ 3:00 - 3:30 on East Stage Mucca Pazza, the 30-member punk marching band, is anything but ordinary. Conceived by composer Mark Messing, this unusual performance has had a presence in the festival scene for over four years. Their repertoire ranges from Balkan-brass to covers of 60's television show themes as well as themes from Shostakovich and Bartok. They have performed nationally at many well known venues and concerts including McCarren Park Pool, True/False Film Festival, Looptopia, Lollapalooza, Rothbury Music Festival, Tour de Fat, [...]

Here are three I'm-not-going-to-pull-a-Ross-M eyeron-and-write-something-wei rdly-personal-here reasons to mosey on down to Lincoln Hall tonight... 1. "Astounding Circus-Punk Marching Band" reads the top of Mucca Pazza 's website. I usually find it a bit discouraging when a band has already narrowed down such a complex musical genre to describe their music. But I think I could honestly write more than 1000-plus words trying to describe Mucca Pazza's sound, which runs the gamut from instrumental twisted carnival frenzy to Mr. Bungle-like oddball-ity to Zydepunks-esque raucousness to demented 1950's swing to...See? So, thank you Mucca Pazza [...]

Chicago summer festival season is right around the corner - as if the crazy high 80-degree weather in May didn't clue you in already - and we've got some festival lineup updates. We've already told you about Wicker Park Fest , Do-Division Street Fest and the second annual Metronome Celebration . Now here's the scoop on Taste Of Randolph and the Green Music Fest lineups. Taste Of Randolph, Friday, June 18, through Sunday, June 20, at 900 W. Randolph in [...]

Do You Realize that the Flaming Lips are coming to Louisville this summer?? Will you have a "Ball" seeing Widespread Panic? Will you go "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" for Spoon? The answer is yes... because they are your initial Forecastle Festival 2010 headliners! Full listing of the initial lineup below... but look forward to 60+ more bands announced later. We, as always, will keep you posted. Flaming Lips Widespread Panic Drive-By Truckers Spoon Bassnectar Heavyweight Dub Champion Break Science Dar Williams Cap'n Jazz [...]

Kurt Vile If you are reading this, it means you survived Chicago Snowpocalypse '10. Congratulations. That means you just won yourself a chance to catch some great shows this weekend. Before we get to the shows, a reminder that Loud Loop Radio will be back on the air tomorrow, Saturday, February 13, at 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Radio DePaul . Lets get to it, shall we? WELCOME TO ASHELY Chicago's [...]

Photo Credit: Josh Reed Welcome to the first Weekend Diversions of 2010! We've got a lot of great shows this weekend to cover including three shows from bands who appeared on our 10 Chicago Bands To Watch In 2010 list. If you haven't seen it yet, be sure to check it out. Also, Loud Loop Radio will be back on the air next Saturday, January 16, at 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Radio DePaul . Finally, [...]