The Sunday Music Drop is a weekly radio series hosted by the KQED weekend news team. In each segment, we feature a song from a local musician or band with an upcoming show and hear about what inspires their music.
Antioch’s Jae “Stix” Jackson is the lead drummer and musical director for Baycoin Beats, a collective of musicians that fuses R&B and contemporary jazz as well as soul, neo soul and trap music. For each gig with the project, Stix brings together a unique mix of musicians that play a mix of cover songs and original music.
“I like to work with a lot of people and everybody’s sound is different. So when we come together, you’re not going to always hear one sound,” said Stix. “So that’s why it’s a collective, because each time sometime I have a different crew and you’re going to get a different sound.”
Jae Stix was born and raised in Richmond and comes from a musically inclined family. Their father played drums and their mother was in gospel choirs when they were two years old.
“They said, I start pulling out pots and pans, just pulling out pots and pans and beating on them,” said Stix.