After the Strokes broke open the dam for Uncooked, punky, electrical rock & roll in 2001, the Hives swelled in. The team had been ripping up levels in Sweden for about a decade by the time “Hate to state I Explained to You So” strike the charts with its chugging riffs and frontman Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist’s atavistic, shredded–vocal-cord de