The Hives are Great!

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Swedish rock outfit the Hives is presently recording its next project, "The Black and White Album," in Oxford, Miss., with producer Dennis Herring (Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello). The follow-up to 2004's "Tyrannosaurus Hives," which has sold 178,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, is due Oct. 9.

"This new album has been recorded all over the world because we thought it was time to have other people involved besides ourselves and our closest friends," frontman Howlin' Pelle Almvquist says.

The Hives have also worked with Pharrell Williams in Miami, Jacknife Lee in London and in Sweden with Bob Hund member Tomas Oberg.

"At times it has felt like we are prisoners to our own creativity and that it is taking a long time," Almvquist says. "At this time we have a lot of songs. In the past we only had what was on each album. We ask you to bear with us as we take the time to wrestle this onto an album."

As previously reported, the Hives will join Maroon 5 as the support act for the latter's fall North American tour, which begins Sept. 29 in Auburn Hills, Mich.

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"Tick Tick BOOM" the new single has leaked and it'sgreat!

anyone else heard this new song and think likewise?

Snakes on a plane!

These people just played Reading + Leeds and the lead singer is honestly one of the most terrible things I have ever seen

who likes the hives in 2014

judging by someone who mockingly retweeted simon price's enthusiasm for them, probably the same people who did in 2002

do 16yr olds today like the hives?

short answer: no

there is lots of hives stuff on tumblr

these people seem pretty young for the most part

http://the-hives-fan-base.tumblr.com/sitebloggers

mostly a rhetorical question crut but i suspect there are 16 year olds who like the hives at the reading festival

this is england after all

there are probably also scandinavian expatriates there

i actually have no clue who likes the hives

I presume they like themselves.

He kept bellowing at the crowd with a kind of sub-Jagger faux-American twang, it was beyond horrible

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Howlin' Pelle Almvquist

hmm,

We were at reading festival yesterday. We did not go see The Hives, other bands were available, but will probably check out the BBC coverage later.

They did the Jolla Holland new years eve thing, they seemed pretty alright there but as I say, will look later.

bellowing at the crowd with a kind of sub-Jagger faux-American twang

this is p much contintental garage rock in a nutshell, right? there's always been an audience for it, tho usually more niche than the hives in their (brief) pop moment. half amazed they're still at it. i've got a lot more tolerance for this kind of stuff than most around here, but even so, haven't knowingly heard a new hives song in over a decade.

Have very fond memories of a 2001 Hives club gig.

Have seen them lots of times over the years and have enjoyed every show. Contenderizer's "continental garage rock" is spot-on - I'm hard-wired for most of that. I dig it when the Hives come up on random play but their ridiculous live show is the whole point. Early cassette from 1994 is a fave - before all those Sonics reissues hit Scandinavia the Hives were warp speed new wavy punks who manage to out-accelerate the Toy Dolls. Almqvist is the best Mitch Hedberg impersonator out there.

Sympathize with them for being on the wrong side of one of the most ridiculous headlines ever.
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