On Friday night, RollingStone.com caught up with the Hives while they were in New York for two sold-out performances, and singer Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist welcomed us onto the band’s tour bus. Almqvist offered up some helpful advice for life on the road, too. “Don’t talk to each other too much,” says the Swedish frontman. “We’ve gotten along and not gotten along for 15 years, so you kind of stop worrying about whether the band is going to break up. We just really like each other.” To see what life on the road is like for the Hives, click here.

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