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The Hives

The Hives are a Swedish garage rock band that first garnered attention in the
early 2000s as a prominent group of the garage rock revival. Their mainstream
success came with the release of the "greatest hits" album Your New Favourite
Band, featuring their most well-known song "Hate to Say I Told You So". The
Hives are known for performing in ever-changing, matching ... read more

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The Hives take some time out ahead of their set at Hard Rock Calling 2010 to chat backstage with Absolute Radio....
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"We're punk rock aristocrats" - DiS meets The Hives Pt.I

The Hives are a rock and roll band. This much the Swedish five piece were very clear about when they sat down with DiS a fortnight ago in an opulent London hotel. What fo...
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The Hives – review

Borderline, LondonRidiculous black-and-white outfits? Of course. Frantic bursts of garage-punk noise that travel from nought to 90 in a millisecond and keep on accelerati...
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Live music: coming up

Bow Wow Wow, New Order and Ladyhawke are among the gigs our writers will be reviewing this week. Take a look at the full list and tell us about live music you've seen rec...
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The Hives NYC show venue revealed -- tix going on sale soon (but first a quick presale)

The Hives @ Coachella 2012 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) We could keep giving clues, but at this point many more than 10 people got it right, so the contest is over a...
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The Hives are playing a small NYC show after Coachella (guess where it is to win tickets!)

The Hives @ Coachella 2012 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Swedish rock band The Hives are getting ready to release a new album called Lex Hives on June 5, You can stre...
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The Hives - The Hives Back After Suffering Band Problems

The Hives frontman HOWLIN PELLE ALMQVIST insists they are ready for a return to the stage after spending five years in the dark ages The Swedish rockers havent released a...
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Jeniferever release new album 'Silesia' out 11 April 2011 on Monotreme Records

Given their country's population of around ten million, and the constant stream of new sounds emanating from its borders, it's easy to assume that one in four Swedes a...
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Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offThe Smiths Reel Around the Fountain A collection of Smiths demos that circulated on the web ...
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sunday evening updates

Mr. Jones said...It's been a busy week for 30 Days Out, last night we attended a Rush concert. The boys are on their "Time Machine" tour, where they play old songs, a fe...
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Hard Rock Calling Festival Acts Weigh In On Best British Slang

Corinne Bailey Rae, the Hives and more count 'cheeky,' 'sort it out' and some naughty obscenities among fave Brit-isms.By Matt EliasCorinne Bailey Rae at Hard Rock ...
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Hard Rock Calling | Pop review

Hyde Park, LondonHard Rock Calling, the festival for those too urbanised to face a real one, doesn't pretend to be anything other than a way of catching a gaggle of bands...
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Wolfmother Pull Out Of Hard Rock Calling

Are forced to pull out of Hard Rock Calling 2010 due to illness. The Hives will take their place
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Top songs

The 5 most played The Hives songs in the past year.

  • Hate To Say I Told You So  178 plays
  • Walk Idiot Walk  109 plays
  • Go Right Ahead  4 plays

Played on

Absolute Radio stations playing songs by The Hives over the past year.

  1. Absolute Radio 00s 284 plays
  2. Absolute Radio 7 plays

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