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"   Photo: Lauren Dukoff  Some say that the music industry is still a boy&amp;#039;s club, and while we wouldn&amp;#039;t argue with that (good luck finding a lady among the bands that headlined this summer&amp;#039;s major music festivals) we do believe that there&amp;#039;s no shortage of talented women to listen to. Case in point: Our three favorite album releases of the week are XX-dominant. On Only in Dreams, the second album from California&amp;#039;s Dum Dum Girls, band leader Dee Dee shares singing duties with her bandmates Jules, Bambi, and Sandy (while we can confirm that those are their real voices, we can&amp;#039;t say if those are their real names). Their girl group-gone-bad sound is still there, just with a bit less feedback, thanks to the help of producers Richard Gottehrer (who worked with Blondie back in the `70s) and the Raveonettes&amp;#039; Sune Rose Wagner. If you&amp;#039;ve got six-and-a-half minutes to spare, listening to slow-burning ballad &amp;quot;Coming Down&amp;quot; might be the best way to spend it. For something a bit more upbeat, there&amp;#039;s Invitation, the debut album from Dominant Legs. Although like Dum Dum Girls they&amp;#039;re based in California (San Francisco, specifically), the band features boy-girl choruses, with Ryan William Lynch and Hannah Hunt sharing singing duties. The `80s synth-heavy pop tracks fall somewhere between Talking Heads and Fleetwood Mac\u2014which is to say, instantly catchy and unabashedly upbeat. (And if Hunt looks familiar, it might be because you saw her star turn in the new Girls music video for &amp;quot;Honey Bunny.&amp;quot;) If it&amp;#039;s heartbreak you&amp;#039;re after, you&amp;#039;ll want to give Own Side Now a spin. The first full-length from Nashville singer-songwriter Caitlin Rose is full of the lovelorn truisms that filled songs by that other Tennessee singer, Patsy Cline. Rose&amp;#039;s songs, however, are firmly products of the 21st century; there&amp;#039;s enough edge to tracks like &amp;quot;Shanghai Cigarettes&amp;quot; to have even the biggest country neophyte fall for her twang. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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