The Hives has been played on NTS in shows including Holliday Show w/ Skinny Girl Diet, featured first on 26 March 2024. Songs played include Tick Tick Boom.

The Hives are a garage rock band from Fagersta, Sweden that emerged in the US and the UK in the early 2000s, but existed for nearly a decade before that, playing punk rock.

The Hives are: "Howlin" Pelle Almqvist (vocals) Nicholaus "Arson" Almqvist (guitar) Mikael "Vigilante Carlstroem" Karlsson (guitar) Johan"The Johan and Only" Gustavsson (bass) Christian "Chris Dangerous" Grahn (drums)

The band claims that their songs are written by an honorary "sixth Hive", Randy Fitzsimmons. Since Nicholaus Almqvist can be found…