The Parlor Mob is a quintet from New Jersey that cranks out raw and raucous rock ’n’ roll — the kind that sounds just as righteous blasting out of a car stereo as anything by the White Stripes or Led Zeppelin (in no small part due to frontman Mark Melicia’s uncannily Robert-Plantesque wail). The band first gained notoriety in its hometown of Red Bank, N.J. under the name What About Frank?, and even released a self-titled album during that period. But things really started rolling following the name change to the Parlor Mob (after a 19th-century gang of New York hoodlums) in 2006; an initial major-label deal with Capitol fell through, but by 2007 the band was signed to Roadrunner Records and working on its hard rocking debut (as Parlor Mob), 2008’s And You Were a Crow.