Operation Ivy: Last News

Operation Ivy’s Jesse Michales and Tim Armstrong have reunited during a live performance yesterday (February 6).The event took place at the Music Rock N’ Roll Carnival in Los Angeles and saw the two members of Operation Ivy perform one of the bands signature songs, ‘Sound System’. They were backed up by The Interrupters.Armstrong was the festival back-up for The Specials, while Michales was in attendance as an audience member.You can watch the moment below:It comes after Michaels spoke out about the prospect of Operation Ivy reuniting last month, saying that he “wouldn’t object to it”.The Berkeley, California band – whose comprise of singer Michaels, drummer Dave Mello, Rancid‘s Armstrong and Matt ‘McCall’ Freeman – were only active between 1987 and 1989, releasing just the one studio album – 1989’s ‘Energy’ – during their time together.However, Operation Ivy’s music endured since their split, with Green Day regularly covering the band’s track ‘Knowledge’ during their live shows (and often inviting members of the crowd on stage to play the song) and Against Me!‘s Laura Jane Grace launching a petition in 2020 calling for an Operation Ivy reunion at Riot Fest.Speaking on a new episode of The Hard Times Podcast, Michaels was asked about why the members of Operation Ivy hadn’t yet considered the prospect of a reunion.“Well, for a long time we weren’t really talking – it wasn’t because there was bad blood.

Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst has spoken to NME about “megalomaniac” Elon Musk, “bullshit” artificial intelligence, his hopes and fears about the forthcoming US presidential election, and how all of this and more has fed into the band’s new album ‘Five Dice, All Threes’.The band’s 11th album, and their second since their return from hiatus with 2020’s ‘Down In The Weed Where The World Once Was‘, features collaborations with Cat Power and The National’s Matt Berninger, and was co-written in part by Oberst and Alex Levine (aka Alex Orange Drink) of New York indie punks The So So Glos.“Alex was in LA in the winter of 2023 writing songs with Tim Armstrong from Rancid and Operation Ivy who has a studio here for different projects,” Oberst told NME. “He was staying with me at my house and I think he got sick of just watching me smoke cigarettes on my porch doing nothing.“He was like, ‘What are you doing today? Nothing? OK, well let’s write a song.’ We started hanging out with guitars on the porch, very old school, and wrote a lot of songs.

Operation Ivy‘s Tim Armstrong and Jesse Michaels came together to perform ‘Take Warning’ at Terry Hall‘s tribute show.The backyard tribute show for The Specials‘ lead vocalist – who passed away last year aged 63 – took place on the night of Saturday, October 14 in Los Angeles. Armstrong and Micheals reunited and were backed by members of The Specials to play ‘Take Warning’ from their 1989 LP ‘Energy’.Other appearances were made by The Specials’ Lynval Golding and Horace Panter, Fishbone, No Doubt’s Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young, L7’s Donita Sparks, the Go-Go’s’ Jane Wiedlin, Tom Morello and more.A post shared by @kmoe77A post shared by Johnny Starke (@johnny2tone)Last year, the duo reunited for an event that took place at the Music Rock N’ Roll Carnival in Los Angeles and performed one of Operation Ivy’s signature songs, ‘Sound System’.

Rancid, Operation Ivy, Trash Talk and The Bronx have come together to form a new project called Bad Optix – check out their debut single ‘Raid’.The new ska-punk band was formed by Jesse Michaels and Rancid guitarist Tim Armstrong, both of whom performed together previously as part of ’80s band Operation Ivy.Joey Castillo (Circle Jerks, The Bronx) and bassist Spencer Pollard (Trash Talk) are also enlisted to complete the supergroup. Today (March 29) they’ve shared their debut single ‘Raid’.Described as an “anti-authoritarian anthem”, the track hears the band combine influences from ska artists including The Specials and The Beat with elements of punk.“‘Raid’ is about every person’s spiritual autonomy from the powers that be, regardless of who they are or what their particular struggle is,” Michaels said in a statement.

Machine Gun Kelly had to break some bad news to his friend, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker... revealing that he changed his album title, six months after they had the old title TATTOOED on their arms together.The 31-year-old singer (real name Colson Baker) and the 46-year-old drummer both got tattoos on their forearms that read Born With Horns, what Kelly was going to call his forthcoming album.MGK revealed in a new Instagram video on Monday that he decided to change the name of the album to Mainstream Sellout, telling Barker the news for the first time.