Liz Cooper with Dead Gowns at MilkBoy
Sunday, April 26, 2026
Doors: 6:30 PM | Show: 7:30 PM
21+ with Valid Photo ID required for entry
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About Liz Cooper
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Liz Cooper’s third album, New Day, emerged from a period of profound personal transformation. After moving from Nashville to New York, she navigated the pandemic, came out to herself, experienced her first queer relationship and breakup, and began redefining her artistic identity. These experiences fueled a shift toward a more experimental, psychedelic-pop sound that she crafted largely alone, demoing in her apartment and learning to trust her instincts. Taking on production duties for the first time, Cooper embraced bold textures and unconventional studio techniques, working alongside co-producer Dan Molad to push her music far beyond the Americana label she had long outgrown.
The album’s creation was rooted in solitude and discovery—Cooper learned piano during lockdown, wrote with a renewed sense of freedom, and recorded early tracks like the explosive “Boy Toy,” which marked a confident step into openly queer artistry. As the songs expanded, she drew inspiration from early Beck and Lou Reed, shaping an album that balances boisterous energy with emotional clarity. New Day captures Cooper’s ongoing journey of self-understanding, celebrating queerness, vulnerability, and creative reinvention. It stands as both a reflection of who she has become and an open door to whoever she may grow into next.
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About Dead Gowns
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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.
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