The Hives
In the early 2000s, Sweden was perhaps the hippest breeding ground in the world for promising young bands and all of them were touted as garage rock. This so-called garage rock revival was spearheaded in the US by Detroit’s The White Stripes as well as a few New York bands before a large crop of Swedish acts, including The (International) Noise Conspiracy and Division of Laura Lee, blew the doors wide open. By the time Australia pitched in and gave the US The Vines, the whole fad had pretty much lost steam. The longevity of neo-garage rock was more comparable to the Latin explosion of 1999 than to grunge rock for the new millennium. However, if one band out of that entire bunch of Swedish groups can still be called relevant, it is The Hives. With their... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Garage Rock, Garage Punk
- City Of Origin:
- Fagersta, Sweden
- Formed Date:
- 1993
