Hives

Swedish rockers The Hives are modern garage rock’s most dapper yet disruptive trailblazers.

Strutting into the 21st century donning monochrome suits and armed with thick power chords, tight rhythms, and tons of bluster, the band conquered the charts in 2002 with the rerelease of snappy alt-rock hit “Hate to Say I Told You So.” But it took them nearly a decade to get there.

Formed in 1993 in the small town of Fagersta, Sweden, the quintet—including fiery frontman Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, his lead guitarist brother, Nicholaus Arson, guitarist Vigilante Carlstroem, bassist Dr.