Howlin' Pelle from The Hives will be guesting with a reunited MC5 for two dates in Japan. The Hellacopters' Nicke Andersson will be guesting on some European tourdates, as he has done before.

Check out the new video for The Hives' single "Walk Idiot Walk": http://mcms-delivery.virtuebroadcasting.com/deliverMedia.asp?id=32002A96-2691-4FC2-A7DB-BD0BD30B9324
Read more about the new album from MTVE.com: http://www.nordic.mtve.com/features/cms/index.asp?id=1006000000000268&type=1&page=1

Kingblind has linked a live bootleg of The Hives playing their new single "Walk Idiot Walk": http://www.kingblind.com

The Hives have finally confirmed the title of their new album: "Tyrannosaurus Hives". It comes out July 21 and the first single will be "Walk Idiot Walk", as premiered live during the P3 Gold Awards.

Entertainment Weekly says that The Hives reportedly got 77 million kroner for a three-album deal from new label Interscope. That's about $10 mil. in US dollars. Insane!

The Hives and the Sahara Hotnights are touring the US along with Reigning Sound:

07/20 - 9:30 Club, Washington DC, DC
07/21 - Irving Plaza, New York, NY
07/22 - Irving Plaza, New York, NY
07/23 - Avalon Ballroom, Boston , MA
07/24 - The Phoenix Theater, Toronto (CAN)
07/25 - Clutch Cargo's, Pontiac, MI
07/26 - Metro, Chicago, IL
07/28 - Ogden Theater, Denver, CO
07/29 - In the Venue, Salt Lake City, UT
07/30 - The Showbox, Seattle, WA
07/31 - Roseland Theatre, Portland, OR
08/01 - The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
08/04 - Soma, San Diego, CA

The much-anticipated new album from The Hives has been confirmed for a July 20 release date.

CDOASS have updated their website with a bit of news. First off, they just finished recording their own version of the Television Personalities' song "14th Floor" for an upcoming tribute compilation due out later this summer. Some of the other bands set to contribute as well include Tidy-Ups, Embassy, Jens Lekman and Radio Dept.. Next, they have announced that they will be opening for The Hives at the Electric Ballroom in London on June 3. Not a bad little gig, eh? And lastly, the band also ruminates on the closing of the famous Polar Studios with a couple pics from the "Autovision" session they did there last spring. Read more: http://www.cdoass.com/

The Hives, The Von Bondies (US), M Craft (AUS) and Jonas Kullhammar Quartet have been added to this summer's Accelerator tour in Sweden. Tickets go on sale tomorrow.

The Hives finally got a new website online: http://www.hivesmusic.com/
Upcoming live dates:

03/20 - Emo's (SXSW), Austin, TX (US)
06/05 - Download, Donnington (UK)
06/26 - Hurricane, Schessel (DK)
06/27 - Southside, Neuhausen (DK)
07/10 - Quart Festival (NOR)
08/07 - WTC Open Air Stadium, Osaka (JAP)
08/08 - Marine Stadium, Tokyo (JAP)
09/04 - Independiente, Bologna (ITA)
09/05 - Independiente, Bologna (ITA)

The BBC will be broadcasting The Hives' live set from SXSW. Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/southbysouthwest/presenters/mark.shtml

HIM, The Hives and Hypocrisy are among the acts confirmed for the Provinssirock Festival in Seinäjoki, Finland on June 19.

Some of these have already been mentioned, but here's the complete list of acts from around Scandinavia heading over to Austin, TX in March for the SXSW festival: Kristofer Åström (SWE), Alamo Race Track (NL), Bettie Serveert (NL), The Defectors (DK), Demons (SWE), Division Of Laura Lee (SWE), Thomas Dybdahl (NOR), El Caco (NOR), Janne Haavisto & The Farangs (FIN), Hardcore Superstar (SWE), Hell on Wheels (SWE), The Hives (SWE), Holden (SWE), Hush (DK), The (International) Noise Conspiracy (SWE), The Jessica Fletchers (NOR), Junior Senior (DK), Kamera (SWE), The Latebirds (FIN), Randi Laubek (DK), League of XO Gentlemen (NL), Learning From Las Vegas (DK), Erja Lyytinen (FIN), Marynka and Some Lovely Girls (NL), On Trial (DK), Persil (NL), Powersolo (DK), St Thomas (NOR), Silver (NOR), Singapore Sling (ICE), Tasha's World (NL), Venus Flytrap (NL) and zZz (NL). And no matter what they say, Danko Jones is not from Sweden. Read more, get artist profiles and listen to samples: http://www.sxsw.com/music/

The Hives have been confirmed for the Download Festival in the UK in June.

A bit of Planekonomi news...

Monkeystrikes is getting ready to shoot a video for the first single "Lost on the Lawn" from their debut EP "Angry Knees". Henry Moore Selder (The Hives, The Knife, Jimi Tenor) will direct. Also, on the same day the EP is released on March 31, the band will hit the road for a couple weeks. Dates and details soon.

The next Mattias Alkberg BD single from his album "Tunaskolan" will be "Don Quixote" and it will be released in April. As for the album track "Levande Begravd" ("buried alive"), look for a special limited edition 7" of that coming soon from Hot Stuff. It's a cover of Swedish punk legends Liket Lever just in case you were unaware (like me).

Lastly, the label would like to welcome Stockholm-based band Stella Rocket to the family. Their debut album was produced by the ever-talented Jari Haapalainen of Bear Quartet and will be out soon. In case you didn't know, Jari's previous credits include bands such as The Concretes, Laakso and Moneybrother.