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[Photo by: Operation Ivy] Thirty years ago, the Bay Area wasn’t synonymous with tech, astronomical rents or even pop punk. The summer of ’69 still loomed in cartoonish homage and the promise of the first wave of American hardcore punk was reduced to the embers being stoked by Maximumrocknroll fanzine. Centered around a non-profit space in […]

Classics Of Love recently performed at Death By Audio in Brooklyn, New York and Asian Man Records has posted a few videos from the show. Check them out below. COL, which features Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy on vocals, released their debut full-length earlier this year via Asian Man.

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 officially defunct Lookout Records. Hellcat reissued the band's lone full-length, Energy, in 2007. Op Ivy frontman Jesse Michaels has since resurfaced in […]

CLASSICS OF LOVE released their debut full-length earlier this week via Asian Man Records and AP chatted with frontman Jesse Michaels about the new album, the chances of an Operation Ivy reunion and more. Interview: Scott Heisel It seems like you haven’t been this aggressive vocally in nearly 20 years. Has your voice gotten its […]

Classics Of Love Classics Of Love This review originally ran in AP 284. It’s been more than nine years since Jesse Michaels last put out a full-length (This Is Unity Music, from his easygoing reggae act Common Rider), and more than 20 since he helped pen the record that more or less invented ska-punk, Operation […]