The Hives
A bit of a left turn for The Hives, who, after pulling off five or so albums of garage-rock so hungry and primitive it sounds like it hunts dinosaurs for food, have suddenly decided to get into bed with Pharrell Williams. The result is ‘We Rule...
The Hives: 'The Black And White Album'
When The Hives rooted around for a title to slap on the cobbled-together UK release of their first two albums, 1997’s ‘Barely Legal’ and 2000’s ‘Veni Vidi Vicious’, and hit upon ‘Your New Favourite Band’, they struck gold. Who...
The Hives
Guitar riffs patched in from 1955. “Yeeeeeaaahhhhs” and “What you waaaaiting foooors” wailed aplenty. Drumming so rudimentary it makes Ringo look like John Bonham. This can only mean one thing: The Hives are back. While the preppy-happy...
The Hives
Thought you’d seen the back of The Hives? Think again, they’re back like a rash. “Yes ladies and gentlemen, IT REALLY IS HAPPENING! The Hives are playing the 100 Club!” Pelle Almqvist parades along the front of the stage in his...
The Hives : Tyrannosaurus Hives
Russell Arkwright lives in Garstang, Lancashire. He's the charismatic, really rather handsome, frontman of a band. He calls them The Pectins because his mum makes jams and sells them down the farmers' markets in Blackburn and Bolton. Russell...
The Hives : Walk Idiot Walk
Everyone has a favourite Hives. Mine's got to be the midget bassist because he has: a) the nicest manners and b) a totally shameless moustache. It takes gall and flair to get away with a 'tache like that. These, however, are two qualities...
Various Artists : Rough Trade Shops Rock And...
The flawless 'Rough Trade Shops Rock And Roll', over two CDs, places the current uprising into a thrilling historical continuum. There's brilliant, obvious stuff like The Stooges, MC5, Birthday Party, The Fall, Billy Childish, The Cramps, Suicide,...
Hives/Idlewild at the Lost Weekend : London...
"We’ve been to the Youessovvaay to play some shows" shrieks head Hives Pelle Almqvist with rare modesty at the top of his band’s set at this NME-sponsored show. "What," he asks, thrusting his mic like a rapier at the crowd, "have you[/i] been...
Hives : Liverpool University
Yowza! It's total Swedish cultural hegemony! IKEA furniture fills our homes, the antics of Sven and Ulrika preoccupy our tabloids and tonight those impeccably bespoke bounders of brilliance, those snakes of suave, them damn cads of cool The...
Hives : Main Offender
Modern life is full of mysteries and few are more perplexing then the irresistible rise ofHives. When you think of all those hapless underground bands who've peddled this kind of racket round the clubs for years, it's strange that Hivesshould have...
