Article: GET HIP TO THE HIVES: You won't be sorry; THE HIVES; VENI VIDI VICIOUS

This stateside debut from Sweden's mod-rock revivalists has been garnering rave reviews faster than you can say "smorgasbord." And they have loads of hip-geek elements on their side that, being mainly geeks themselves, rock critics really like. They're from Europe! They wear matching black and white suits! They have catty fake names like Nicholaus Arson and Chris Dangerous! Another bonus rock critic point: By assimilating large chunks of '60s British pop and bits and pieces of '70s punk, The Hives are the British Invasion version of The Strokes, who themselves have famously smushed together the entire New York CBGB scene into 35 minutes of music, and over whom critics have been spanking ...

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