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Ty segall tour washington dc professional# Sign up here for our daily DC email and be the first to get all the food/drink/fun in town.There is no disputing Ty Segall’s California bona fides. A child of the ’90s and ’00s living in Laguna Beach, he surfed daily, skated almost as often if less proficiently, worshipped southern California music legends Black Flag and Redd Kross, and even had his own well regarded high school punk outfit, Epsilons. That life had little to do with the “Laguna Beach” that was prettied and blonded up for mass consumption by a certain reality show, and in fact Epsilons did a genius send-up of that show that can still be found online.

When it came time for college, Segall headed north to the city by the bay, a music mecca of a different sort.

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For all of its gleaming guitars and glossy euro-flavored synthwork, Bottled Up’s filled with the mental residue one gets after asking the void to fuck off.Ĭo-led with Colin Kelly – a disciple of D.C.’s avant-analog scene – joined by Michael Mastrangelo and Beth Cannon on dueling guitars, and supplanted by Rao’s wunderkid brother, Rohit, on acid-jazz-does-punk drums, Bottled Up conjures the sort of psycho-potpurri-spirit that’s only given to the sort of band that’s able to conjure a vision of the things they love, the mountains they’ve overcome, and mutate it all into something you can dance to. A sound designer and audio engineer by trade – professionally schooled in the art of video game scoring- Rao’s a man informed first by the sort of his journeying one’s got to do when faced with the darknesses of addiction and a twisty adolescence in and out of religious cults. Indian-American by way of Oakland and Los Angeles, Rao’s the dude-who’s-seen-it-all meets dude-about-town.

Jangly and glamorous, Bottled Up’s freaked-up art pop is a smoothie of frontman Nikhil Rao’s key obsessions: Suburban Lawns, italo disco, Alan Vega, Television (the band), television (the appliance), Andy Warhol, the entire decade of the ‘80s, Prince’s particular shade of plum purple, his old Tascam 8-track, Factory Records.