Junk Parlor

Junk Parlor
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Junk Parlor’s new Melusina album:  dangerous, wild, fun.

March 21, 2016

    (Los Angeles). Gypsy rock and roll.  Sounds dangerous.  Actually it is dangerous but a lot of fun.  And no one does it better than Junk Parlor, as their latest album, Melusina demonstrates.  Melusina is like taking a drug – a big rush, continuing high, then addiction, often accompanied by dancing.  True to its Melusina namesake, the twin-tailed mermaid long used as a symbol in alchemy to represent female sexuality and the dual nature of humanity, the album is a combination of wild abandon, joyful cavorting and dark tales.   Junk Parlor’s founder and leader, Jason Vanderford, has conjured a gypsy-cadenced album that recalls the classic belly dance LP’s of Ala Turk or Radio Bastet and mixed them with instrumental gypsy folk melodies and a touch of rock.  He weaves this bubbling concoction together with his howling, haunting voice and cinematic lyrics. The result is a unique music form that you just can’t get out of you head. But then, why would you want to? Melusina unfurls in ten songs, some instrumental and some [Read More]

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Wild Tones debut album by Junk Parlor. “Wild” is the right word. by Patrick O’Heffernan

February 14, 2014

Wild Tones debut album by Junk Parlor.  “Wild” is the right word. Review by Patrick O’Heffernan, host, Music FridayLive! Junk Parlor’s debut album Wild Tones is like taking a drug – a big rush, continuing high, then addiction, often accompanied by dancing. Gypsy junk rock and roll.  Sounds dangerous, but it’s actually really fun. Whether you are dancing or head-bobbing in your chair at a club, or bopping with your ear buds in, the music of Junk Parlor is like taking a drug – a big rush, continuing high, then addiction, often accompanied by dancing.   Founder Jason Vanderford has incorporated his ramblings, both physical and mental, into a unique music form that I just can’t get out of my head without the help of a psychiatrist.  And who would want to anyway? Seriously, whether he is singing in a shuffle beat about “how we became you and me” in a kind of not-quite-love song, or trying breathlessly to keep up with a frantic guitar riff while he extols escape from suburbia by becoming a vampire, [Read More]