Operation Ivy bandmates Tim Armstrong and Jesse Michaels have announced their first musical collaboration in over 30 years. The duo teamed up with drummer Joey Castillo (Queens of the Stone Age, Circle Jerks, The Bronx, etc.) and Trash Talk bassist Spencer Pollard for their new project ̶B̶a̶d̶ ̶O̶p̶t̶i̶x̶ (jk, sounds like they had some legal trouble and had to change the name to DOOM Regulator).
Armstrong had this to say about reuniting with Michaels:
“I’ve been friends with Jesse since the early 1980s when we were teenagers. We formed Operation Ivy in 1987 and 2 years later we broke up. Jesse and I both continued down our own musical journeys through the years. I always felt a little sadness that Jesse and I stopped making music together. But we never lost touch. And then it happened. A few years ago we started writing songs again! A couple of the songs ended up on Grade 2’s record. Jesse and I just stared writing again a lot. It came back. Just like that. Like when we we were kids. There is a special chemistry between us and I don’t take it for granted.”
Check out the band’s first single “Raid” below, and stay tuned for more to come from ̶B̶a̶d̶ ̶O̶p̶t̶i̶x̶ DOOM Regulator. It sounds like they’ll be releasing a full-length album on Hellcat Records at some point.
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