"The Hives may not be recording any new material in the near future thanks to a legal dispute over their recent multi-million pound record deal with music giant Universal. The success has prompted Universal Music UK to step in with a rumoured £7.5 million worldwide album deal. Now The Hives and Universal UK face a legal challenge from Burning Heart, Epitaph and Warner Brothers over the deal. Lengthy legal arguments threaten to prevent The Hives being able to release any new music until the dispute is settled (nme.com)." THe Hives are hotter than H-O-T right now and god damnit, the entire world needs more Hives. I don't honestly care who puts out their records at this point, as long as someone does. And I really hope they get as much money out of this as possible, which will feed their ever inflating egos, which in turn helps their confidence to rock. Props to the Moldster on this one.