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. At the end of Richmond band Pateka’s song “Night Stairs,” a saxophone plays over the audio of a conversation the band had in line at Wienerschnitzel. Says Knowles, “I think a lot of what we write, a lot of our songs, reference shared experiences and childhood places where we grew up.”The song “Night Stairs” began as a dream for Knowles. “When I think of Night Stairs, I just think of us walking around Berkeley at night.