- The site was down a bit this weekend as I had to upgrade Wordpress on the fly because of some security concerns. We’ve got all the posts updated except for July 09 it looks like. Hopefully those will be back soon. New posts will begin later today or tomorrow. Thanks for hanging around!

- I apologize the site has been dead for the last week+. I was in PA for about four days which was awesome but otherwise life has been sucking as work has been severely kicking my ass lately. Hopefully that will change soon and I can get back to having enough energy to care about music again. Thanks for hanging around regardless!

This is kind of an odd post for SAL but I figured what the hell. What’s the point in having a site if you can’t promote your own shit!? As most of you probably know I moonlight for Beartrap PR when I’m not slaving away at the real job and staying up til all hours of the night writing for this site. And I am on a quest to work full time at Beartrap. But for me to do this I need help finding more great bands and labels to work with. I’ve had so many people tell me to accept donations or start doing ads on SAL but that’s never been what the site is about. The greatest thing you can do for SAL is this: if you know of any bands or labels who might be interested in press work please pass their name my way or tell them to contact me. If you follow SAL you probably have a good idea of what I’m into and what I would be interested in. Beartrap is a little different than most press companies as in we only work what we like…crazy, right? We do a good job…just ask our bands!

Needless to say, all this is relevant to SAL cause if I didn’t have to work 30-40 hours a week at the real job I would have much more time to devote to the site. And that would mean posts/coverage of awesome bands would increase dramatically around here. And we all want that, don’t we?

Andrew is a fellow Gamecock fan and I’ve been following his battle with cancer for a while now. Please help if you can! Thanks everyone!

Andrew is the most fun-loving and caring 9 year old you would ever meet despite battling for almost 2 years with one of the deadliest brain cancers DIPG. After 120 days Andrew has been cleared to leave a hospital, but due to being confined to the wheelchair the family is in desperate need of a wheelchair accessible van to help transport him from home to the hospital. Please help by giving to Andrew’s Wheels Assistance Fund. 100% of donations will go toward helping the family purchase the van. Please make donations in increments of $10.00 (you will be able to determine your total amount of donation at checkout). You will also receive a letter of thanks as a receipt for your charitable donation. Thank you for helping us to get Andrew on the road to recovery!

SAL will be dormant for the next ten days. I am heading on a much-needed beach vacation. We will be back on Monday July 20th with reviews on tap from Ian, Mercy and Court as well as a new contributor! And moi of course. If you need me you can email me at will@soundaslanguage.com but most likely I’ll only be responding to Beartrap-related stuff while I’m away. Ride the shark man!