The Hives

The Hives are back and once again pulling no punches. Following their roaring return with the song, "Enough Is Enough," featuring an all-time opening line of "everyone's a little f***ing b****," the band stopped by the Helpful Honda Sound Space in Los Angeles to perform, talk about their longevity, and even pass along some wisdom from The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger. Set to arrive in August, 'The Hives Forever Forever The Hives,' is the latest album from The Hives, this time featuriing an assist from Rock royalty with Mike D of the Beastie Boys and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age both having a hand in the project. "It was really helpful," singer Pelle Almqvist shares on their influence and involvement. "I mean, we were thinking about who has cool sounding records, and that's the Beastie Boys. So we figured if our record's gonna sound cool, we should get him involved. He flew over and stuff and also sent us some stuff, which was great. "And Josh more kind of in a cheerleader capacity. When we were trying to work on the quality, he said it's already good. And that was very helpful because we can kind of shoot above the goal sometimes, like you can't make it too good. We got to keep a balance of popular and good, which is really hard. You want to be so popular they can keep doing it, but not so popular that the music sucks. Which is a hard balance to tread." The band also took a hilarious look back through their over-30-year career, sharing stories of the scene and even some advice from the iconic Mick Jagger. "Never buy your own yacht, always borrow a friend's," the Stones frontman sagely said. "Invaluable information, because we were just about to buy a yacht each," Pelle explains. "So that really helped."