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Ok, you are into new and different rock bands? Did you like Kent? Do you like The Beatles? Or maybe the power of The Hives or Hellacopters?

Well, then allow me to introduce you to: Mando Diao. Pure rock, a big dosis of garage with a Beatles don’t know what feeling. You are going back to 1960 and coming back with pure energy.

These four guys band from Borlänge, Sweden, which started playing together at age sixteen, are:

• Gustaf Norén, guitarist, lead singer, and, to me, excellent songwriter
• Björn Dixgård, guitarist and singer
• Carl-Johan “CJ” Fogelklou, bassist, and
• Samuel Giers, drummer

These boys, just in their twenties, have already toured Sweden with great bands such as Hellacopters and Kent, they have conquered Japan and have been put in the Swedish bands with international potential list. Not bad eh?

I’ve got their first album, Bring em In. There is a great mix of songs in there.

With no doubt I can say that Mr. Moon is the one I like the most, it has a genuine sixties taste in it but at the same time is so fresh.

To China with Love is also a good pick, I enjoy the lyrics, they make me think about what these boys tell us about their home town: “it has the highest drug and murder rate of anyplace in Sweden". A clear voice telling us this guy’s story, a perfect bass line and the guitar’s background chords really complete a great song. At the end, you just have to sing the la, la, la chorus, if you are not doing it, you are missing it all boy.

This year has seen their second album come alive. Hurricane Bar, a two year work which I have not been able to put my hands in, yet.

Well my fellow readers, go get a little of Mando Diao from Amazon or iTunes, I promise you will be dancing while sitting in front of your boring PC, I am doing it right now!