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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last year, 30-piece “circus punk marching band” Mucca Pazza considered making their way from Chicago to Austin for the South by Southwest music festival. It can be an arduous journey–hundreds of acts ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s probably no mere coincidence that Mucca Pazza hails from the same town that brought us the magnificent Art Ensemble of Chicago. With the same passion that most marching bands have for precision, ...

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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 ...

Mucca Pazza is coming to the Knickerbocker Theatre Friday. As part of the Great Performance Series, the concert will take place at 7:30 p.m.. Deemed “crazy, fun and eccentric” by WNYC and praised for ...