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Swedish sharp dressers the Hives are dropping hints about the sound of their forthcoming album on both their MySpace blog and the "Personals" section of their official website (i.e. their journals, not yet a date-finding tool).

Guitarist Nicolaus Arson says, "We just have too much good stuff to put on this new record of ours. How we are gonna pull it off, all these bitchin' rock 'n rollers together with the crazy dance and hip hop flavoured stuff we have recorded and make that work on one record? I don't know, but if someone is gonna do it, it is your favourite crimefighters, the Hives. We also, by the way, today mish-mashed Chuck Berry and Gang of Four in a moronic way to create yet another dear freak of a song." It sounds like that Timbaland collaboration might have gone to their heads.

Drummer Chris Dangerous adds to the MySpace blog that they have recorded the album, the follow-up to 2004's Tyrannosaurus Hives, in London, Miami, and Oxford, Mississippi.

Though it will not appear on the Hives' album, vocalist Howlin' Pelle Almqvist adds that he recently breakfasted with Jack White and collaborated with the Raconteurs on a song called "Footsteps" for their new album.

The Hives also shot a video with Timbaland recently for "Throw It on Me", their aforementioned guest appearance on the producer's solo album, Shock Value.

The band will continue their globetrotting ways on tour at various European festivals this summer. The rocking begins June 1 at the Rock am Ring Festival in Germany.

In related news, this is pretty fucking scary.

Tour idiot tour:

06-01 Nürburgring, Germany - Rock am Ring Festival
06-02 Nurnberg, Germany - Rock im Park Festival
06-15 Vienna, Austria - Nova Rock Festival
06-16 Interlaken, Switzerland - Greenfield Festival
06-24 Roeser, Luxembourg - Rock a Field Festival
06-30 Belfort, France - Eurockéennes Festival
07-05 Prague, Czech Republic - Rock for People Festival
07-07 Turku, Finland - Ruiz Rock Festival
07-19 Tromso, Norway - Bukta Festival
07-20 Trencin, Slovakia - Pohoda Festival
07-22 Valencia, Spain - Benacassim Festival
07-27 Östersund, Sweden - Storsjöyran Festival
08-10 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival
08-11 Budapest, Hungary - Sziget Festival