Rousing, stompin' garage rock from these Swedes, with plenty of mod and frantic punk energy to keep you grooving along. "Party Party!" they seem to be saying, and you just...
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Administer a Main Offender blindfold test to a pop scholar and chances are they'll mistake the Hives for a garage band submerged in New York City's Lower East Side or...
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It's easy to fall into the trap of blaming the band for the marketing; while Sweden's Hives have been turning out unhinged, purebred garage punk since 1997, it was only in...
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It's clear that a lot care goes into the Hives' seemingly immediate, fired-up sound: this is a band, after all, that has only released three full-length albums in its...
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It's easy to fall into the trap of blaming the band for the marketing; while Sweden's Hives have been turning out unhinged, purebred garage punk since 1997, it was only in...
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Essentially a glorified single for "A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T" from the Hives' Barely Legal album, this five-song EP features the title tune (duh!) along with four otherwise...
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The Hives launched the first salvo in their global assault on all that is lame in our culture with their debut album, 1997's Barely Legal, and there is little arguing that...
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Essentially a glorified single for "A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T" from the Hives' Barely Legal album, this five-song EP features the title tune (duh!) along with four otherwise...
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