Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Gilberto Gil. Legend. The post Happy Birthday Gilberto Gil appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Aquarium Drunkard — André Ethier returns this fall with Croak In The Weeds, the second installment in a planned trilogy of albums from Telephone Explosion. Its nine songs occasionally recall a friendly Bill Callahan, young Gilberto Gil, or an oddball James Taylor. Th... more info

Core News — “Gilles Peterson with a Brazilian Freak Zone special on the closing night of the Olympics. Launching off from the classic artists Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Os Mutantes Gilles digs down into the underground with tracks by Nara Leão, Hareton ... more info

Yahoo! Music — Celebrated Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil was released Friday from a Sao Paulo hospital where he was treated over the past week for kidney problems. Gil, 73, on his Instagram account posted a photo showing the rear of a car with the words "homeward ... more info

Guardian Music — The Polish singer and Pop Idol winner selects her prime cuts, from a moment of pure Tropicália fun to Roman Polanski’s jazzer of choice In 2013, when I was staying in New York, I stopped at Videology Bar & Cinema in Williamsburg where they ... more info

New York Times — The two Brazilian musicians, Tropicália movement pioneers in the 1960s, performed with a gentle diplomacy Wednesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. more info

Rolling Stone — Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil are titans of Tropicália, a strain of Sixties Brazilian pop (or música popular brasileira) that drew on João Gilberto's sublime bossa nova, the Beatles' kaleidoscopic pop and Jimi Hendrix's soaring psychedelia... more info

New York Times — The two musicians, pioneers of Brazil’s Tropicália movement, come to Brooklyn as part of their first tour together in more than 20 years. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — What a pleasure it is to watch two masters at work. That’s what I kept thinking Sunday night at the Microsoft Theater, where Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil — two aging giants of Brazilian pop whose friendly collaboration dates to the mid-1960s â... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — What a pleasure it is to watch two masters at work. That’s what I kept thinking Sunday night at the Microsoft Theater, where Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil — two aging giants of Brazilian pop whose friendly collaboration dates to the mid-1960s â... more info