Let’s Manufacture Static

| May 25, 2012 

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Normally, static is a bad thing on the radio. But not when you’re talking about the Birmingham band called Let’s Manufacture Static. The group (two brothers and two college friends) has offered up their soulful sounds to audiences at Marty’s bar and Speakeasy. And now they have a newly-released self-titled EP. WBHM music producer Kevin Lehner sat down with percussionist Jesse Lejeune to talk about it.

 

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