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Coming out of the closet has given Lesley Gore's '60s hits a whole new subtext. The love triangle of "It's My Party" and "Judy's Turn to Cry." The proto-feminist "You Don't Own Me." The campy "Sometimes I Wish I Were a Boy." It all makes sense now. (Just don't hurt yourself reading into "My Town, My Guy & Me.") In her heyday, Gore was a girl-group girl without a group, but there's nothing girly about Ever Since (Engine Company), her first album in 30 years. Gore's all woman now. She displays a much throatier voice — countless supper-club engagements will do that to you — and the smoky maturity suits her well. The piano-accented title track alludes to the persona she assumed all those years ago ("All the parties I've been to/ you were missed") but the kicker is in the subtext, and in the decades of regret Gore breathes into that pause.

Tue., Sept. 13, 8:30 p.m., $25, Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., 215-928-0770, www.tinangel.com.