Listening to Operation Ivy’s legendary album Energy for the first time0

• Music
• May 18, 2021

I remember the first time I saw an Operation Ivy patch, oversized and haphazardly sewn onto the jean jacket of the only punker on my middle school bus. I was developing my own taste in music at the time, but tended towards the brighter side of punk and ska — bands like Five Iron Frenzy,