Hear Menahan Street Band's Funk-Soul Blitz 'Lights Out'

October 9, 2012 – If the eerily cinematic and surging sound of Brooklyn funk-soul ensemble Menahan Street Band seems like something that'd be sampled by some hip-hop mega-producer, well, there's a reason for that. The group's vintage-flavored horn-blazer "Make the Road By Walking" was borrowed by Diddy for Jay-Z's 2007 standout "Roc Boys (And the Winner Is)," and their new single "Lights Out" is postively ripe for the picking. …
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