TUESDAY, MAY 22: Fuck Iraq, lets invade Sweden! Those fuckers do everything better than the rest of the world. Their chicks are the hottest, their metal bands are the hardest, and their beer tastes better. We just need to take over their land and keep them all in a big Plexiglas cage. We could observe the Swedes in their natural habitat, doing in-depth research into why their bands do everything better than everyone else, even in bullshit genres. Case in point: Mando Diao. Their name is great as far as most ’60s/’70s rock bands go (who wants to see a band called Wolfmother or The the-the-the’s?). Their songs are good. “Libertines” good. Midway through the show I had to leave. I was so outraged at the fact that Swedes are superior that I drove straight to the Echo to see something shitty: DJs playing their laptops on stage. (LF)