Good news: Mutants are coming to invade a city near you.

In fact, The West Coast won’t be the only place where folks can catch the newly reformed Os Mutantes on their first tour in more than 30 years.

The massively influential group, which was earlier announced as performers at two alternative rock festivals in San Francisco and Seattle later this year, will tour the United States in support of the band’s first album since 1974.

“I love playing this music live. It is the best thing possible. When we were playing at the Pitchfork festival (in Chicago in 2006) it was like looking at yourself when you were a kid trying to mumble the words to ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand in English’ and not understanding the words,” founding member Sergio Dias told Pollstar magazine. “There weren’t many Brazilians there but the kids were singing our songs in Portuguese. Playing with this band live is amazing. I cannot describe anything better other than maybe going into space. It keeps me young.”

Starting with Aug. 28 with a set at Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and continuing through Oct. 11 at La Zona Rosa in Austin, Texas, the tour includes stops at the Aladdin Theatre in Portland, Ore. (Sept. 2), Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland (Sept. 30), Sommerville Theatre in Boston (Oct. 4), Webster Theatre in New York (Oct. and the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale, FL. (Oct. 14).

The band will be touring in support of its new album, set for release September 8th on Anti Records.

A complete list of Os Mutantes tour destinations is available here. And to relive that original Os Mutantes experience, watch this clip from Mosaic TV.

First, there was the reunion tour. Then there was the characteristically anarchic single “Mutantes Depois.”

Now comes word of the day that many Os Mutantes fans thought would never come. The pioneering psychedelic band will release its first album in 35 years on September 7.

“Haih”, the belated follow-up to 1974′s “Tudo Foi Feito Pelo Sol”, will be released by the Los Angeles independent label ANTI-Records – home of such unconventional acts as Tom Waits, Nick Cave and Billy Bragg.

According to a press release announcing the album, the album features contributions from former Os Mutantes collaborators Tom Zé (who contributed lyrics) and Jorge Ben (the co-writer of the song “Minha Menina,” the former hit featured incongruously in a McDonald’s ad campaign this past summer.)

In the press release, frontman and founding member of the band, Sergio Dias Baptista (as far as we know, the only original Os Mutantes member involved in the project) said making the album “was the most intense experience, for it was as if time has ceased to exist, and I was bouncing from life to life, decades through decades, revisiting myself as a 16 year-old boy playing guitar and feeling so free and indestructible.”

Quite a build up. We’ll have to see if the music lives up to Dias’ words.

Caetano Veloso. Gilberto Gil. Gal Costa. Os Mutantes.

In less than a line, we’ve managed to recite all the musicians that most people associate with the short-lived but revolutionary musical genre known as ‘Tropicália.’

But there is so much more for folks to discover. And a New York City record store owner is doing his part to make sure folks get a taste of Tropicália beyond the big names with some rarely (if ever) heard tracks from the late 60s and early 70s.

Joel Olveira , owner of Tropicália in Furs, a tiny shop on Fifth Street in the East Village, has a crate of  obscure Tropicália singles that he is exposing to the world this month through a self-released 16-track compilation called “Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas: Tropicalista Psychedelic Masterpieces, 1967–1976.” Among its finds: Marisa Rossi and Ton & Sergio with a feedback heavy “Vou Sair do Cativeiro” (“Escape From Captivity”) and Fábio, whose “Lindo Sonho Delirante” (Go ahead: Form an acronym with that title) is filled with seemingly drug-induced delirium.

And how do you say “Doobie” in Portuguese, anyway?

Olveira, a São Paulo native who emigrated to the U.S. decades ago, tried to contact everyone on the album, But for those who he couldn’t find, he has a note for them on the album itself: An open appeal for the musicians to contact him for their cut of whatever profits (if any) might accrue. “If I could meet them, I’d hopefully give them some money,” Olveira told the Village Voice newspaper. “Then I’d be asking, ‘What else you got down in your basement? What else can I get out there and share?’”