After seeing Ekterklang and Slaraffenland at the Doug Fir this past Friday, I came to the conclusion that Scandinavians are better than us at everything. The New York Times realizes this as well, writing a love letter to Stockholm’s music scene in their travel section. I’m not planning to travel to Sweden anytime soon, and the relative worthlessness of our American dollar to the booming Swedish kronor makes such a trip prohibitive, but damn if there aren’t a ton of excellent Swedish bands these days.

Read the article here.