"Someday I'll rest forever. Someday, but not today!" I like this line of thinking. Who needs rest? Apparently not Boston's Roadsaw, as their debut release "Nationwide" is a testament to as it was written during the many hours spent on the road with many like-minded heavy rockers as Fu Manchu and Nebula. I first heard Roadsaw when they turned up with a track on The Music Cartel's "In The Groove" compilation and they quickly became one of my favorite artists from that release. This full length has done nothing to dissuade my original opinion.

If you can imagine the impact grunge music and heavy alternative had on the masses some ten years before, the same might be said for this latest swarm of "new" music which was actually born during the late sixties and rose to popularity all throughout the seventies. What we're talking here has been labeled so many different times, it'd make your head spin trying to pin down one particular title for the kind of music that Roadsaw and many others have been performing. But monikers aside, it's good old fashioned, feedback-driven, psychedelically harmonious, heavy American roots rock and it's coming back stronger than ever.

MIA's latest entry into the stoner-rock revolution can be placed right up there with the best you've already heard. Gruesomely played riffs, hypnotically transient melodies and bottom heavy rhythms characterize many of the moments on "Nationwide" giving tracks like "Not Today," "In Threes," and the particularly muddy "Thanks for Nothing" a solid texture and energetic feel. However unlike a few of the latest retro-rockers I've heard, there's nothing on "Nationwide" that'll allow you to lose interest or get lost in the same mix and song structure that just appeared moments ago. So jump aboard and prepare yourself for a rough ride as the Roadsaw cuts through the "Soundgarden" of yesterday.