Each week, host Eric Chan sits down with artists helping shape the sound of British Columbia. Listen in, and be part of how the next wave of BC music gets heard.
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The Early Chapter Behind Distracted
The Zummers are a four-piece out of Pemberton, B.C. In this episode, they look back on the early momentum that turned into their debut album, Distracted — the songs, the road, and what it sounds like when a band finds its shape fast.
Listen → Anna Katarina talks about her album While I Was Dreaming — a record built around the moments that happen outside the fantasy of success. We get into the pressure of releasing music now, what collaboration taught her about finishing a song, and why she came back to BC after time in Nashville.
King Bob began taking shape around 2018, but the songs behind the project go back much further. Jackson McDonald talks about learning to record at home, bringing years of unfinished ideas together for the 17-song debut album Rookie, and how one of the band's oldest songs became "Figure It Out." He also talks about King Bob's Patreon and why every song needs to be about something.
The Shindigs are a five-piece indie rock band from Nanaimo. Eric Chan talks with Shea Peoples and Alex Peabody about the childhood friendship that started the band, writing as a five-piece, and what changed once they started playing bigger rooms.
Kaj from Blue Light Studio joins Inlet Wire to talk about how a recording space can become something bigger than just a studio. Eric Chan speaks with Kaj about Blue Light's growth into an East Vancouver creative hub, how Blue Light Sessions helped build community around the room, and what it takes to keep a space like that going in Vancouver. They also get into Kaj's approach as a producer — understanding the song first, building it piece by piece, and chasing those moments in the studio when everything suddenly clicks.
On this episode of Inlet Wire, Summer's Brother talk about how the project came together over a few years, and how their EP Class Clown slowly found its shape.
On this episode of Inlet Wire, Francis Baptiste talks about coming back to music, and how that path led him back toward language, family, and heritage. He talks about learning the Okanagan language, carrying parts of it into song, and why that matters to him as a father, songwriter, and member of a lineage he wants to help preserve. Francis also shares how he works with Levi Bent to shape poems into songs, and why one song, Snəqsilx (sneh-silk), has stayed close through it all.
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