Hey, remember when the two main members of Operation Ivy started a new band together? What’s going on with that? Berkeley ska-punk heroes Operation Ivy famously started in ’87 and ended in ’89, and their raw, scrappy, hectic sound inspired countless imitators. People have been wanting an Operation Ivy reunion for many years, and we got something a bit like that in 2023, when Tim Armstrong, the Op Ivy singer/guitarist who went on to form Rancid, got together with singer Jesse Michaels to form a group called Bad Optix, who released exactly one single. That project seems to be lost in the mysterious ether, but now Armstrong and Michaels are working on something else together.
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