This is now! Right now! After a two-and-a-half-year absence, Kent, Ohio's the Six Parts Seven have returned to reclaim rock 'n' roll. To have at all the hearts and minds and ears willing to have them. With "Everywhere and Right Here," they have created an album about immediacy and, to a degree, about love. About how things -- relationships, adventures, ideas even -- begin, or rather how they feel in the beginning. How it feels to be actualized by someone or because of something. How the threshold is...   [ read more ]

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