Garage rockers the Hives recently spoke to Billboard about their long-awaited follow-up to 2004's Tyrannosaurus Hives. The band is recording The Black and White Album in Oxford, Mississippi., with producer Dennis Herring (Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello). The band added:

This new album has been recorded all over the world because we thought it was time to have other people involved besides ourselves and our closest friends. At times it has felt like we are prisoners to our own creativity and that it is taking a long time. At this time we have a lot of songs. In the past we only had what was on each album. We ask you to bear with us as we take the time to wrestle this onto an album.

Besides Herring, the band worked with Pharrell Williams in Miami, Jacknife Lee in London and in Sweden with Bob Hund member Tomas Oberg. Next month, they will hit the road with Maroon 5 for a two month US tour.

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