The Hives frontman Pelle Almqvist returns as a guest on the newest installment of the Lipps Service podcast, speaking with host Scott Lipps about the group’s upcoming album, The Hives Forever Forever the Hives, working with the Beastie Boys’ Mike D as a producer and the larger Swedish music scene.
Almqvist also names such influences as Blondie’s Clem Burke, the New York Dolls’ David Johansen, AC/DC and Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, weighs in on political correctness and the use of AI in music, lists his top five siblings in rock and whether he’d ever franchise the Hives.
On the previous episode of Lipps Service, Live’s Ed Kowalczyk, Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz and Torture of Torture and the Desert Spiders previewed the first live extension of the program on June 4 at New York’s Bitter End.
Since it began in 2018, the acclaimed podcast has featured many of the biggest voices and personalities in music, including exclusive interviews with Anthony Kiedis, David Lee Roth, Hozier, Maynard James Keenan, The Police’s Stewart Copeland, Mick Fleetwood, Nikki Sixx, Dove Cameron, Perry Farrell, the Kills and many more. Every few weeks, a new episode of SPIN Presents Lipps Service is available wherever you listen to podcasts.
Stay tuned into all things Lipps Service by following the podcast on Instagram (@lippsservicepod), TikTok (@lippsservice) and YouTube (@LippsService).
