Artist Name

Menahan Street Band

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Album Releases

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The Crossing
(2012)

Make the Road by Walking
(2008)

Members
5 Male

Popularity

63

Followers
245,685

Origin
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Genre
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Soul

Style
Urban/R&B

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Born

2007

Active
2007 to Present...

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Most Loved Tracks

Track	Last.FM Listens	Loves
Home Again!	141,860	4 users
Make the Road by Walking	286,773	4 users
The Contender	140,290	4 users
The Traitor	246,980	4 users
Tired of Fighting	118,057	4 users

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The Menahan Street Band is a Brooklyn, New York-based instrumental band formed in 2007, that plays funk and soul music. The band features musicians from Antibalas, El Michels Affair, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and the Budos Band. The group was founded by Thomas Brenneck while living in an apartment on Menahan St. in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. Their debut album, Make the Road by Walking, was released in 2008 on Dunham, a sublabel of Daptone Records.

After Jay Z sampled the album's title track for his hit single "Roc Boys (And the Winner Is…)", the band invested their royalty money from the song in building a studio. Brenneck launched the all-analog Dunham Sound Studios, and the band worked there for many months on the completion of their 2012 sophomore album The Crossing.