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A kindness, positivity, mental health and music-magic-based informal conversational town hall created, authored, and produced by award winning Canadian singer songwriter and ex-journalist Matty McKechnie (known musically as Graven).  Whether he has acclaimed or interesting pals, comedians, musicians or artists to interview - or even if it's just a solo-yolo convo that he "sends into the universe", Matty would always want you to know that you - whoever and wherever you are  - are ALWAYS welcome in Graventown.

  1. Sep 22

    Episode 125: Interview w/ Shad

    Send us Fan Mail Graventowners; don't be sundowners because you'll want to stay awake all night for this one. Kicking off a bundle of new interviews I have coming up, I was able to carve out some space and time to speak with the very busy, eclectic, unique, multi-faceted and still singular voice of hip hop - Shad. His new album "Start Anew"  boasts a central premise that Shad has wholeheartedly embraced himself, addressing social inequality and the inner strength to succeed. The project completes a trilogy that began with 2018’s A Story About A War (30 million + streams across platforms) and 2021’s TAO.  Shad has not only been shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize five times (the most nominated artist in Polaris history) - he has also won CBC Radio’s Canada Reads competition, and also served as the host of CBC Radio’s flagship arts and culture program Q (and Netflix’s Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series Hip-Hop Evolution). Shad has also grown into the role of educator, having recently designed and taught Hip-Hop-related courses at both the University of Toronto and Wilfrid Laurier University, further solidifying his role as a leading voice. It was a joy to talk to this special human being - to share our love of Norm Macdonald and wax about his musical beginnings and our mutual adoration of words. I hope you enjoy it. My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can buy the digital, cd and vinyl versions of the album on my bandcamp page, (which helps me greatly) but I understand that cash is tight all over the map, so you can also order a five dollar Geographics sticker. 5 beans! This album is really special to me (as my friends Melissa Payne and Charles Austin played all over it) and I hope you'll come along for the supersonic ride. Follow me @gravencanada on all the socials, and check my website to see when I'm playing live in a town near you. Join Graventown today to support yours truly for only 8 clams a month.

  2. Sep 10

    Episode 124: Itemizing The Autumn

    Send us Fan Mail Well, hello friends; we're back at again iiiiiiiiiiinnnnn Graventown. Appreciate you being here. This is just one I fired out into the digital universe as I do some summer unpacking - both from the heart and mind. I hope you're all alright or as alright as you can be. Thanks for being here and thanks for being you. My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can buy the digital, cd and vinyl versions of the album on my bandcamp page, (which helps me greatly) but I understand that cash is tight all over the map, so you can also order a five dollar Geographics sticker. 5 beans! This album is really special to me (as my friends Melissa Payne and Charles Austin played all over it) and I hope you'll come along for the supersonic ride. Follow me @gravencanada on all the socials, and check my website to see when I'm playing live in a town near you. Join Graventown today to support yours truly for only 8 clams a month.

  3. Aug 29

    Episode 123: The Learning Never Lets Up

    Send us Fan Mail Oh hey pals. Thanks for your patience as I've sifted through some strong summer lessons from ye olde universe. I hope you're all doing as alright as you can. I just wanted to list a few growing points and blind spots for me over the past few months and I hope it finds you well. I love you and appreciate having you here in Graventown. More to come. My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can buy the digital, cd and vinyl versions of the album on my bandcamp page, (which helps me greatly) but I understand that cash is tight all over the map, so you can also order a five dollar Geographics sticker. 5 beans! This album is really special to me (as my friends Melissa Payne and Charles Austin played all over it) and I hope you'll come along for the supersonic ride. Follow me @gravencanada on all the socials, and check my website to see when I'm playing live in a town near you. Join Graventown today to support yours truly for only 8 clams a month.

  4. Aug 5

    Episode 122: August Ain't Over Yet

    Send us Fan Mail Hello pals from all canals and friends from all road-ends. It's been...something. Thanks for being here and for being receptive and kind supporters who appreciate that I go through peaks and valleys. This summer has been a strange one - but I'm here - and I'm making way out of the canyon. I hope this fresh catch from the pod-pond finds you well and nourishes your being. Also this friday august 7 is bandcamp friday - so with all of the legal hassle I'm going though, any and all support (on my bandcamp page) would be phenomenal. I love you. My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can buy the digital, cd and vinyl versions of the album on my bandcamp page, (which helps me greatly) but I understand that cash is tight all over the map, so you can also order a five dollar Geographics sticker. 5 beans! This album is really special to me (as my friends Melissa Payne and Charles Austin played all over it) and I hope you'll come along for the supersonic ride. Follow me @gravencanada on all the socials, and check my website to see when I'm playing live in a town near you. Join Graventown today to support yours truly for only 8 clams a month.

  5. Jul 10

    Episode 121: Summertime Climb

    Send us Fan Mail Hey pals. Just a little internal dip into the mind lake of Graventown these days. The water is a bit frothy. I hope you enjoy and I hope you're all alright. Keep enjoying your summer. Get outside. Watch out for flooding storms.  My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can buy the digital, cd and vinyl versions of the album on my bandcamp page, (which helps me greatly) but I understand that cash is tight all over the map, so you can also order a five dollar Geographics sticker. 5 beans! This album is really special to me (as my friends Melissa Payne and Charles Austin played all over it) and I hope you'll come along for the supersonic ride. Follow me @gravencanada on all the socials, and check my website to see when I'm playing live in a town near you. Join Graventown today to support yours truly for only 8 clams a month.

  6. Jun 18

    Episode 120: Keep Looking For The Helpers

    Send us Fan Mail Friendoes. Hellos. I've been on the road - careening around like a farmer buckshot in a tin pan alley. Yes - I sure did mix those metaphors and I don't mind one bit. I hope this episode finds you well as I recap some of the things that have happened in the last while and I hope you find your way through the heaviness of these times. Please don't stop looking for the helpers. They are there - and they just want to help. I love you. Chat soon. My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can buy the digital, cd and vinyl versions of the album on my bandcamp page, (which helps me greatly) but I understand that cash is tight all over the map, so you can also order a five dollar Geographics sticker. 5 beans! This album is really special to me (as my friends Melissa Payne and Charles Austin played all over it) and I hope you'll come along for the supersonic ride. Follow me @gravencanada on all the socials, and check my website to see when I'm playing live in a town near you. Join Graventown today to support yours truly for only 8 clams a month.

  7. Jun 2

    Episode 119: June Two Just For You

    Send us Fan Mail Hello my G-town pals. I truly haven't felt like myself lately so I hope you can excuse the absence. Lots going on - and not in the positive sense. Mourning. Upheaval. Life Gut punches (and those gut punches when you're most relaxed and un-ready for the pain). But hey - I'm surviving. Are you? I hope you tune in and get some nuggets from this mining session. I love you. My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can buy the digital, cd and vinyl versions of the album on my bandcamp page, (which helps me greatly) but I understand that cash is tight all over the map, so you can also order a five dollar Geographics sticker. 5 beans! This album is really special to me (as my friends Melissa Payne and Charles Austin played all over it) and I hope you'll come along for the supersonic ride. Follow me @gravencanada on all the socials, and check my website to see when I'm playing live in a town near you. Join Graventown today to support yours truly for only 8 clams a month.

  8. Apr 30

    Episode 118: Interview w/ Jen Baranick of Broken Down Golf Cart

    Send us Fan Mail Countryfolk and Citydwellers: I hope you wander round to the Graventown get-down. It's been nice to get back into the Podworld (that felt really lame to write) and interview the super talented Jen Baranick from the supersonic fuzz-love-space rock band Broken Down Golf Cart. Broken Down Golf Cart are known as purveryors of spacey grunge and fuzzy weird love began as the audio/visual project of Canadian-born, Merseyside-based musician, animator and visual artist BDGC captain Jen. With a raucous, groove-glow and memory-movie dreamscapey album called "Funeral Smoker'"on the way, Jen is ever prolific and ever frontally lobed about the mammoth mind-machinery behind the creation of a new album, and we had a great chat as I welcomed her back for her second visit to the Graventown Podcast. My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can buy the digital, cd and vinyl versions of the album on my bandcamp page, (which helps me greatly) but I understand that cash is tight all over the map, so you can also order a five dollar Geographics sticker. 5 beans! This album is really special to me (as my friends Melissa Payne and Charles Austin played all over it) and I hope you'll come along for the supersonic ride. Follow me @gravencanada on all the socials, and check my website to see when I'm playing live in a town near you. Join Graventown today to support yours truly for only 8 clams a month.

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A kindness, positivity, mental health and music-magic-based informal conversational town hall created, authored, and produced by award winning Canadian singer songwriter and ex-journalist Matty McKechnie (known musically as Graven).  Whether he has acclaimed or interesting pals, comedians, musicians or artists to interview - or even if it's just a solo-yolo convo that he "sends into the universe", Matty would always want you to know that you - whoever and wherever you are  - are ALWAYS welcome in Graventown.

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  • Creator
    Graven
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    125
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Graventown
  • Show Website
    Graventown

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