On several levels, DUM DUM GIRLS' second full length "Only in Dreams" is a great leap forward for a gifted songwriter and an equally gifted band-it's heavy, deeply personal stuff and surely unprecedented for this style of music. "The first record was basically the first songs I'd ever written," says band-leader Dee Dee, "and I was thinking nostalgically about being a teenager. This record, it was pretty much impossible not to write about very recent, very real things." Very real things indeed: Dee Dee wrote "Hold Your Hand" immediately after her mother (the pretty lady on the cover of both the DUM DUM GIRLS' self-titled 2009 debut EP and their 2010 debut album "I Will Be") was diagnosed with what turned out to be a fatal illness, and it's one of ... read more