The Cardigans Play “Beautiful One” Live For The First Time 20 Years After Their Final Album

There is unmet demand for the Cardigans to tour America again. The underrated Swedish pop-rock greats haven’t toured this country in 19 years, playing only one stateside show since 2006, and their biggest (but not even best) song “Lovefool” went viral on TikTok a few years ago. That sole US show was at the 2023 goth/new wave nostalgia fest Darker Waves in Huntington Beach, CA. I was there and they sounded incredible. The crowd should’ve been bigger, but their set overlapped entirely w...

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