The much awaited full length album COMMON REACTION from the Los Angeles based female duo UH HUH HER is finally here! The girls have been playing sold out shows from L.A. to New York to London since their self released 2007 EP I SEE RED. Now, they bring all the intricate craftsmanship of the EP to full fruition in this 12 song album. Support the girls and go and pick one up.

Message from Leisha & Camila about the release:

"UH HUH IT HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you to everyone of you for your support. It means the world to us that you have been on this ride from the beginning. It is such a special day and it's so great to be sharing it with you. We did it together. We are going out tonight to celebrate so we will raise our glasses and give a big cheers to all of you. Thank you so much!!!!!! Big love, Cam and Leisha"

Hello Deli Readers! You might have noticed a new feature going on towards the right of the website; and if you haven't, then check it out. Look to the right of the page - see that? That thing to the right of the Artist of the Month poll that says "DIY Live Show Listings"? It's the newest feature on the Deli LA, and it's pretty darn nifty.

So feel free to get started and start adding those shows to help promote your music. The listings are automatically organized and separated by date, genre and venue. We've gone ahead and added a bunch of shows to get the ball rolling. Please email me if you experience any problems, and/or if there are any Los Angeles venues that we've left out. Enjoy! - Christine

Quasi-dainty, soft and muscle-free, but ripped with emotional girth, the come-lately ladyesque bands are an appropriate answer to the built-to-kill American-warring machismo. Yielding Moogs, not semi-automatic weapons, the 00s answer to the moral and psychological disaster abroad with uber-sensitive balladeers who hope to find love in a world of shadows. Enter: Cold War Kids. The post-post-modern antithesis to the pervasively guised ecclesiastical violence that’s become so alarmingly mundane. The CWKs break the tedium of so much mellow-rock, piercing with precision the sonic stratum that gets the college kids so hot. Oft off kilter and rhythmically quizzical, Robbers and Cowards listens like a cut-up poem, posing challenges to notions of faith, reverence, and forgiveness. After much underground media build-up, CWKs deliver with their first full-length record. Highlights include “St. John,” a grit and blues testament to redemption, and “God, Make Up Your Mind,” a falsetto-heavy epigrammatic dive into turmoil and duality. Check out Cold War Kids wreaking havoc back on the L.A. streets at Sunset Junction or live on September 20, 2008 at the San Diego Street Scene. Pick up Cold War Kids’ new record, Loyalty to Loyalty, on September 30, 2008. -Angel Baker

Xu Xu Fang's new CD, The Mourning Son, is a wave of sonic beauty that washes over the listener from start to finish, ensnaring them in a cacophonous underworld of musical textures. With a lead in by crashing waves and thundering skies, the song "These Days" ominously builds with layered textures of reverb driven piano, languid guitar, and bass; never really coming to any kind of climax, in turn heightening an eerie irony to Bobby Tamkin's soft repetition of "These days, things are just okay." The rest of the album continues through a dark mellow landscape, with songs like the title track, "The Mourning Son," a quietly melodic tune built with a controlled artistry, which consciously subdues all surplus emotion to a harrowingly evocative effect. The album is a beautiful soundtrack to to a dark dream you never want to get up from; concluding with the 13:56 minute "Terra Scura," painting the ending scene to the dark landscape that we've been meditating through, with falling rain, distant thundering, and chilling synthesizers; bringing to conclusion an immaculate end to an immaculate album. -Christine Castanon

True art is about expecting the unexpected. In that spirit, an area of Los Angeles typically known for its destitution was levied July 31 by the beauty of poetry and song. Even more unexpected? The ethereal words were woven by an actress and a music publicist. Entertainment industry roles were blurred during the party for Paul Maziar and Matt Maust's recently released book, "What it is: What it is" (Write Bloody). Maziar's best known in the music circuit as a former publicist for The Militia Group; Maust as the Cold War Kids' bassist. Together, they've created a work of vivacious prose and photography. Providing additional talent for the event, held at the diamond-in-the-rough Barker Block lofts, was Amber Tamblyn, a thespian cum poet formerly known as "Joan of Arcadia." The airy scene emanated with the pleasant rock of local band The Antiques and the odoriferous cloud of street tacos as about 200 guests guzzled free Colt 45s and admired the makeshift art gallery. What it was was nothing short of exhilarating.- Melissa Bobbitt

Midnight Movies are the type of group that screams for a laser light show accompaniment in an outdoor amphitheatre. Their cover of the Moody Blues’ “Nights In White Satin” is a great 60s psychedelic throwback in the vein of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit:” mystical flutes, searing wah pedal guitar work and a chorus as big as the night sky viewed on LSD. Their retro approach isn’t limited to any single period, however: there’s plenty of early 90s alternative rock and late 80s NYC new wave and post punk thrown into the mix, shading the catchy pop vocals and songwriting with chugging guitar distortion and primal drumming. Songs like “Should Have Known” color Gena Olivier’s yearning, polished vocals with dark distortion reminiscent of early Smashing Pumpkins. “Souvenirs” draws more on the dark electro sounds of The Cure or Orgy. Constant color and texture changes within the songs keep the music from sticking to any genre