The Raconteurs collaborate with The Hives on new track

The Raconteurs have collaborated with The Hives on their new album.

As previously reported the band have written 12 songs for the follow up to their 2006 debut ’Broken Boy Soldiers’, and are currently holed up in Blackbird Studio in Nashville.

Posting on Hivesmusic.com, the Swedes' frontman Pele Almqvist explained in his online diary he had collaborated with Jack White and co.

He wrote: “April 21: Had breakfast with Jack White. Recorded footsteps for the new Raconteurs album. Those are some great guys.”

Jack White recently declared that the sound was “very different” to the band's debut album.

Meanwhile The White Stripes will release their own studio album ’Icky Thump’ on June 18.

However, NME will be releasing the first new material from the duo.

New song 'Rag And Bone' will come free as an exclusive seven-inch single with issues of NME, which go on sale from June 6.

Stay tuned to NME.COM for more information.