Like every musician I hate to distill a band's sound down to component parts and assign them to other bands (the drums sound like Bonzo, the guitarist like Andy Gill and the singer is a dead ringer ...

As far as ridiculous claims go, the one Swedish band Mando Diao made on its Web site is one of the most pretentious out there: “We honestly believe our record is better than anything by the Who,” says ...

Swedish rock band Mando Diao has already faced many obstacles despite a young career. First, early compositions proved that cozy Swedish folk melodies, especially those not sung in English, would flop ...

As joyously empty-headed and spunk-fitted as an ode to rock-life hedonism and confusion ought to be, the Swedish garage rockers’ third album makes up in undeniable choruses and fully lubricated ...

Fronted by the creative guitar-slinging duo of Gustaf Norén and Björn Dixgård, Sweden's Mando Diao offers a balanced and cohesive fourteen-track album as its second effort. Hurricane Bar, titled after ...

El reconocido músico, productor y compositor, ganador de tres Premios Grammy Latinos y figura clave en el sonido de El Madrileño de C. Tangana, se suma a esta cita galáctica con una propuesta vibrante ...

Mando Diao play to a packed German crowd on June 3 2011 Set list God Knows Sheepdog The Band Song For Aberdeen Down in the Past You Cant Steal My Love Losing My Mind Mean Street Long Before Rock n ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

[5] It must suck to be a Swedish band who, for all intents and purposes, play garage/mod rock: You will inevitably be compared to countrymen the Hives with the first two sentences of any given review.

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