The post Operation Ivy’s Jesse Michaels and Tim Armstrong Reunite to Perform “Sound System” appeared first on Consequence. For only the second time since Operation Ivy’s disbandment in 1989, frontman ...

Twitter is a wild place! After becoming funny on Twitter, Eve 6 got added to The Fest “as like a postmodern joke” (to quote Eve 6), and they’ve used their platform to promote a lot of the cooler, ...

The post Jesse Michaels Addresses Possibility of Operation Ivy Reunion: “I Wouldn’t Object to It” appeared first on Consequence. Operation Ivy is one of the few bands who has thus far resisted ...

We just mentioned yesterday that Operation Ivy’s Jesse Michaels is working on his first new music in eight years, and that 924 Gilman — the iconic Berkeley venue where Op Ivy got their start — are ...

The lead singer of Operation Ivy, Jesse Michaels, says he won't rule out a reunion, though admitting he's not sure if it could ever happen due to "various practical reasons." The influential punk band ...

The great Bay Area ska-punk band Operation Ivy famously started in ’87 and ended in ’89. After their breakup, half of Op Ivy, Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman, went on to form Rancid. In the ’90s, Op ...

Hellcat Records will be reissuing legendary ska-punk outfit Operation Ivy's debut EP Hectic on vinyl Apr. 17. A pre-order has been launched here. THe EP was originally released in 1988 by the now ...

I know it, you know it, we all know it- Operation Ivy is as good as it gets! To celebrate the iconic band, Sell the Heart Records and Lavasocks Records are releasing a HUGE Op Ivy tribute album. Not ...

Operation Ivy has re-released the iconic Energy album on cassette tape, coinciding with the album's 35th anniversary. The new tape has a reformatted version of the original lyric sheet drawn by Jesse ...

When I was 14, growing up in New York City, my favorite band was Operation Ivy. They were a California punk band, famous for their simple, driving power-chord riffs and rabid distrust of all things ...

Laura Jane Grace has tried for years to get an Operation Ivy set to happen at Riot Fest. Eventually, she took matters into her own hands when the venerable Chicago festival asked her to perform an Op ...

It’s not quite the full Operation Ivy reunion for which fans have been clamoring since 1989, but that group’s Tim Armstrong and Jesse Michaels have re-teamed in the new group Bad Optix, which also ...