Anybody who saw the final evening of “Late Night with Conan O’Brien’s” weeklong residency at the Chicago Theatre was treated to appearances by Chicago luminaries such as U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, Wilco ...

Mucca Pazza (or a majority thereof) in their new video Credit: Courtesy the artist Punk-spirited marching band Mucca Pazza emerged from a street protest against the invasion of Iraq in 2003, but ...

Mucca Pazza performing at Chicago Botanic Garden in August. Credit: Isa Giallorenzo It was a hot, late summer Saturday, and my son and I had come to the Chicago Botanic Garden for an outdoor playdate ...

The self-described Circus Punk Marching Band Mucca Pazza has cleaned up their act -- if only for a residency series. Their weekly Monday night gig at Revolution Brewery in Logan Square dispenses with ...

A fish toss, hot chocolate, and madcap not-marching band Mucca Pazza are on tap at ‘Winterlochen,’ the annual winter festival at Interlochen Center for the Arts. MyNorth Media’s entertainment writer ...

Mucca Pazza: For the Record An intimate four-night live recording event. Mucca Pazza’s 30-odd member lineup gets audiences of all ages jumping for joy: moving in choreography while dressed in ...

With 23 members, the performance-art marching band is the biggest ever to play the Tiny Desk, complete with horns, woodwinds, strings, percussion... Mucca Pazza: Tiny Desk Concert When I first ...

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Chicago’s Mucca Pazza welcomed their new album, Safety Fifth, back in June via Electric Cowbell. The album serves as their first new material since 2008’s Plays Well Together, and you can stream it in ...

See the 30-piece marching band give a wildly exuberant performance, recorded live at the Webster Hall Ballroom in New York City. Mucca Pazza: globalFEST 2013 The circus came to GlobalFEST in the form ...

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When I first imagined Mucca Pazza at the Tiny Desk, I honestly had no idea how the Chicago band's 23 members would fit in — in the literal sense of the term. To load-test this performance, we actually ...