The Hives

New Releases From Easy Street Records

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Latest comment by: Joseph Riippi: "The new Destroyer is good. Not great, but good. If you liked Rubies you'll dig it. I got tired of Rubies, frankly. And Sera Cahoone is a goddess. This new record is a great step forward from the already excellent debut. "

Live show review

The Hives at the Showbox Sodo

The Hives photos by Chona Kasinger

at Showbox Sodo

Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist owned the stage like a master, with the sex appeal of a hundred male Swedish models and the shriek of a caricature banshee.

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

by imaginary chona

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Latest comment by: Ben Funkhouser: "You should edit this article Mikko Freeman plays drums, Conor Kiley is the singer. The Hives are okay. HGR is the only reason i went."

Hives vs. Mountain Goats

Two of my favorite live bands are in town on Saturday and I'm so torn!

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Thursday, February 21, 2008

by imaginary liz

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Latest comment by: imaginary chona: "I've promised myself to get at 3 good jump shots and 5 of Almqvuist's crazy insane wide eyed scream faces. Oooooh!"

Record review

The Hives — The Black and White Album

The Hives are one of the most energetic and entertaining bands when they are at ease with the material. They are a rock band, period. And a very good one at that.

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Sunday, January 13, 2008

by ChrisB

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NME Chart for 10/16

So, even after noticing that the new Hives song "Tick Tick Boom" isn't entirely anything different from the band, it hasn't stopped it from being #1 on the NME charts. There are a couple new songs on the top 10, including

#8 "Terrafirma" by Young Knives - Sort of Gang of Four like post-post-post-punk. Not bad as such, just sort of generic Brit rock of today. The video is kind of fun, though.

#9 "Alcohol" by CSS - We all know and love CSS, so I post this mostly to amuse Betsy. And for the fact that the video is brilliant! (I'm not kidding ... its fabulous especially if you like rabbits drinking beer through funnels).

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

by Erik Gonzalez

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NME Singles: Finally tracked down

So for the last month or so, I've been trying to find the NME Singles Chart - it had disappeared from its weekly update on the NME website and no one would tell me why. Well, after poking around, I finally tracked it down on the MTV2 UK website. So, here is a little update on some of the songs on the chart this week ...

#1 Babyshambles - "Delivery": Ok, well, beyond the fact that I've always thought 'Babyshambles' was a terrible name for a band and I've never understood the head-over-heels love people have for Pete Doherty, "Delivery" is pretty uninteresting. Think Nirvana meets Clash but in an uninspired sort of way.

#2 Jack Penate - "Second, Minute or Hour": Another part of the "cute rock" revolution, but a big boring part. It pretty much sounds like throwback pop rock, sort of bouncy and dancy but lacking any substance - sort of like a male No Doubt. The video is kind of, er, cute.

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Tuesday, October 2, 2007

by Erik Gonzalez

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Latest comment by: rkpetersen: "Pretty spot-on with your comments on most of these songs. Although I'm also looking forward to seeing The Hives! "

In a perfect world, the Hives and the White Stripes are BFFs

I was just looking over the awesome line-up of shows coming Seattle's way this fall and got daydreaming... wouldn't it be a killer bill to have the Hives and the White Stripes tour together?

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

by imaginary liz

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Latest comment by: imaginary dana: "The Magnetic Fields touring with Jens Lenkman. SWOON!!!"