The Harmonica Lewinskies at Arlene's Grocery

The Harmonica Lewinskies is a New York-based rock and roll blues funk band known for giving its audiences a riotous good time. The five-year-old band has released two EPs and a full length CD over the past year, and has been pulling in a steady core of followers to performances in the Lower East Side and Brooklyn music club circuits. Recently, the band has enlarged its following to allow for a Boston to Philadelphia itinerary.

The Harmonica Lewinskies returned to Arlene’s Grocery tonight and once again whipped up a frenzy with high energy, fast moving songs. Whether it was ska-flavored originals or spirited covers of 1960s songs including “Land of 1,000 Dances” or “Johnny B. Goode,” the musicians kept the party going and kept the goers partying. Each of the band’s front men took turns leading the songs so no one musician was the focal point. Here is a band that did not seem to torture itself trying to compose intricate new arrangements –they brought their individual musical inspirations to the family table and then everyone else partied like it was 1999. Watch for the Harmonica Lewinskies; the band will soon rock a music club near you.