Sunday, June 8, 2025

DSP Shows presents Dead Gowns live in the 9th Ward with special guests Bryan Dubay and Rattlesnake Jake

7pm Doors, 8pm Show

Tickets: General Admission Seated: On Sale Now $20 advance / $25 day of show, available at TixR.com or in person at the Babeville Box Office (M-F 11a-5p- in person fee free cash sales, 3% credit/debit card fee).

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How does one cope with the pang of desire? It’s the tender, sometimes volatile question that confronts Genevieve Beaudoin on her debut full-length as Dead Gowns.

A deft lyricist with a sweeping range of poetic color and texture, Beaudoin paints her story in dark romantics, presenting a woman in the high summer of adulthood deciphering life’s capacity to fulfill desires or let them go painfully unmet. These cravings – to be touched, to be known, to have just one more encounter with someone lost to time – are a lacuna Beaudoin prods at insistently throughout the album’s twelve songs.

Though never named outright, Beaudoin’s home in Maine – and its ragged, granite-strewn coastline – is an evocative character inhabiting the album, a force even more implacable than Beaudoin’s emotions. Also present is the acute awareness of time passing. Pulled from an Eileen Miles poem, the album’s title, It’s Summer, I Love You, and I’m Surrounded by Snow, evokes a feeling of disorientation and the inevitability of change. External and internal forces charge Beaudoin, her inner world shifting much like the dizzying change of the seasons. “We get swept up in the blizzard, and then we are set down in the hot salty haze of August,” she says, remembering the Maine winters of her childhood.

By the album’s end, Beaudoin holds her longing in the balance, no longer overcome but embodied. And if you listen carefully – these songs will pick you up and put you down again, transformed, raw, and satiated.

Bryan Dubay
Dubay is a Buffalo, NY based singer/songwriter who has been performing his enigmatic brand of indie compositions since the age of 14. Not to be pinned down to a single genre, words such as post-indie, Cerebral Folk-Rock, indietronica, and jangly have all been used to describe his ethereal yet driving sound. A vast range of influences from Fleet Foxes to Tame Impala to Portishead to Elliott Smith can all be heard in his writing and production as the open-tuned guitar hooks and stacked vocal harmonies cohere.
After his self-released debut album, “Grand Eternal Season,” was released in 2020 with the help of multi-instrumentalist and producer Sam Skinner (Pinegrove), Bryan’s EP, “Detritus,” (via Admirable Traits Records) emerged with great recognition. “Detritus” has been described as a “wonderfully rich and glittering slice of indie rock gold” [Mystic Sons], and a “thoughtful poetic composition” with a “driving, modern, dancey vibe.” [Prism Reviews]. Wild is Calling wrote, “The Buffalo buzz is worth the hype…Bryan Dubay is a dangerous man, and he’s on our radar..”
In 2024, Bryan was in the midst of a flurry of exciting new singles and continuing to receive praise from a multitude of outlets. From the twangy ballad ‘Walk It Off’ to the wall-of-sound synth banger ‘Black Ocean’ all leading up to an album fully released on 9/9/24. As Certified Bop says Dubay is “…an artist unafraid to explore the depths of his sound. As the Buffalo buzz around Bryan Dubay continues to grow, it’s evident that he’s a rising star on the indie scene.”

Rattlesnake Jake
Rattlesnake Jake is a Buffalo NY based songwriter,  multi-instrumentalist and independent producer blending an eclectic mix of modern and vintage influences in to one-of-a-kind weirdo pop singalongs about love, loss, and queerness in the United States. Their debut EP “Oh, How Easy” was written, recorded and mixed alone in several apartment bedrooms, and is out August 2025.