Hate to say they told us so

DOWN AT THE ROCK AND ROLL CLUB—Early in the Hives show at Bottom Lounge in Chicago last night, singer “Howlin’” Pelle Almqvist thanked the sold-out crowd for coming, slyly acknowledging that the folks who bought tickets late probably paid a pretty penny for them. “And then the money went to someone else,” he observed with a half-grin, “and not The Hives.” His virtual finger-wag lingered in the air. Guilty. I ponied up on the third-party market as I’d been closed out of the initial ticket run bac...