{"id":2444321,"date":"2019-05-17T07:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=836591"},"modified":"2019-05-17T07:22:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T13:22:29","slug":"hear-the-hives-proclaim-im-alive-on-raucous-first-song-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-the-hives-proclaim-im-alive-on-raucous-first-song-in-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear the Hives Proclaim \u2018I\u2019m Alive\u2019 on Raucous First Song in Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TheHives-new-general-2017-photo-goran-broberg-copy.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Swedish outfit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-hives\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-hives\" data-tag=\"the-hives\">the Hives<\/a> announced their return with a fanfare of guitars on their new song, \u201cI\u2019m Alive.\u201d The track will be released as a limited edition double A-side vinyl seven-inch June 28th via Third Man Records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI\u2019m Alive\u201d opens with a prickle of guitars before settling into a mighty rock stomp. Over the crash and clang, singer Peele Almqvist belts, \u201cDid you miss me, boys and girls\/I crawled out of the underworld\/And I\u2019m alive!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a statement, Almqvist said of the song, \u201c\u2018I\u2019m Alive\u2019 is a song about crawling up from under a rock and obliterating all resistance that <em>sounds<\/em> like crawling up from under a rock and obliterating all resistance because it is a band crawling up from under a rock and obliterating all resistance. Use it in your own life to help you obliterate your own resistance!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI\u2019m Alive\u201d marks the Hives\u2019 first new song in four years, following their 2015 one-off single, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D7heQB5ST3g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u201cBlood Red Moon.\u201d<\/a> The band is reportedly also working on a new album, which will be their first since 2012\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/lex-hives-204959\/\"><em>Lex Hives<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Hives will kick off a North American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehivesbroadcastingservice.com\/upcoming-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">tour<\/a> with Refused, tomorrow, May 18th, at Franklin Music Hall in Philadelphia. The run wraps May 29th at the Observatory North Park in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-hives-new-song-im-alive-836591\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish outfit the Hives announced their return with a fanfare of guitars on their new song, \u201cI\u2019m Alive.\u201d The track will be released as a limited edition double A-side vinyl seven-inch June 28th via Third Man Records. \u201cI\u2019m Alive\u201d opens with a prickle of guitars before settling into a mighty rock stomp. Over the crash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 08:23:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}