The Hives return with first new album in 11 years

The Hives are back! The band have just announced their first new album in over a decade. Entitled The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons, their long-awaited new record – the follow-up to 2012’s Lex Hives – is due out on August 11 via Fuga, and is seemingly yet another super-fun release from the Swedish rock’n’rollers. “There’s no maturity or anything like that bullshit, because who the fuck wants mature rock’n’roll?” reasons frontman Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist. ​“That’s always where people go wrong, I feel. ​‘It’s like rock’n’roll but adult,’ nobody wants that! That’s literally taking the good shit out of it. Rock’n’roll can’t grow up, it is a perpetual teenager and this album feels exactly like that, which it’s all down to our excitement – and you can’t fake that shit.” To mark th...

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