Podcast appearances and mentions of melissa payne

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 preorder 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. 

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 preorder 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. 

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 preorder 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. 

Hey pals. I've been a bit delinquent in just getting back into the G town studio grind and sitting down behind the mic, but it felt great to do that today. I appreciate that you're always here listening and being rad and righteous human beings. I talked about my mental state and the importance of going analog, getting offline and connecting with yourself. I love you. May you make the most of yer Monday.My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can preorder 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. 

Hello my dudes. I've been wandering into the waves of whimsical philosophical, nautical leagues and so this was a little carcast for you - to celebrate the olden days of ye merry graventown. I've been up against the existential wall lately so it felt good to say some things out loud on a sunny Monday in the Limestone City of Kingston, Ontario as I gazed upon the harbour. I hope it finds you well. My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can preorder 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. 

Heyo river! I love that Portlandia episode. Does anyone read these things?! Pals from all canals. It's been a second since I beckoned. Been going through the low tide of the final winter ride, post album release show and feeling a bit of a lull-scape. Thanks for giving me a moment to share that with y'all. I love you and we shall chat real soon.My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can preorder 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. 

Alright G-towners - get ready to turn those frowners into upside downers. It's not often I get to share cinematic geekery with an acclaimed actor and director, but Nathalie Boltt was super kind and willing to chat with yours truly for a concise but peanut-packed snickers bar of an episode. For those who don't know, Nat Boltt is a South African actor (in major productions like District 9, Riverdale and many more) director and writer whose debut feature film "Holy Days" has just been released and is crushing so many film festival minds. I finished it minutes before interviewing her and it is something to behold. The uplifting, effervescent and heavy spiritual film stars the three silver screen legends Miriam Margolyes, Judy Davis and Jacki Weaver and newcomer Elijah Tamati who steals and melts hearts the minute he's on screen. Nat also acted in the movie and talked about the strange fourth-wall breaking transition between being a character in the film that you yourself are directing. We talked about Peter Jackson. We talked about Neill Blomkamp. We talked about getting your creative dreams crushed. We talked about hope and joy. We talked about the need for more female directors. We had a great chat. Hope ya dig it.My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can preorder 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. 

Friendoes: Hello. I have a special one for you golden G-towners today. Forged and led by the vision of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lee Rose, Ace of Wands has become one of Toronto's most creative and captivating bands since forming in 2017. Evoking the art-rock of PJ Harvey, the orchestral-pop of Kate Bush, and the alt-rock fuzz of Nirvana — Ace of Wands is known for their explosive and charismatic live performances, astonishing musicianship, and gothic-rock aesthetics. Lead vocalist Lee Rose alternates between violin and guitar, while simultaneously playing synth-bass foot pedals, joined by Anna Mernieks on guitar and Jody Brumell on drums. Together, they create a fantastical and immersive world of yearning, dread, euphoria, and insight — defining the essence of Dream Rock. Chatting with Lee was truly a flow state stopover, as both of us seem to have aligning views on the music world and the world at large, and we just had a poignant and pinging back and forth. Ace of Wands is sharing two stages with me (Graven) and my friend Melissa Payne very soon - March 20 at Hotel Wolfe Island in Wolfe Island and March 21 for my album release at House of Targ in Ottawa. Please come see all of us together!! Independent music makers rely on people buying advance tickets and coming out to their shows. Get your tickets to either or BOTH shows by clicking here:My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can preorder 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.

Friends. Please enjoy the last half view of my new album "Geographics" as I pour over the songs one last time before they are fully out there and running free in the sonic meadows and swimming in your ear lakes. Melissa Payne showed up around the 11 minute mark for a surprise convo to talk about her recent healing journey and we reminisced quickly about making this record. Thank you for all the love so far. I feel it. Catch ya. Ottawa friends: please come to my album release show at House of Targ on March 21.My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can preorder 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.

Hello friends. I'm back at it again for a special interview sesh on Graventown. To quote the great Toronto Mike: “If you grew up with MuchMusic, you understand the impact the VJs had on your life. Bill Welychka was one of the greats. We're blessed with inside access to the life and times of Bill, who it turns out is much more than a beloved VJ. He's a beloved human being.” That's what Toronto Mike had to say about Bill's latest memoir called "A Happy Has Been" - chronicling the life of the renowned Muchmusic broadcaster and his many brushes with musical and cultural fame in a very up close and personal format. We had a great and honest chat (and even got into his short wrestling career!) and I hope you Graventowners dig in with hungry ears.My new album "Geographics" is releasing (on my Bandcamp page only) through late January into late February 2026, and every Monday and Friday of those months, I'll have a new song up for you to digest into your ear canals. You can preorder the digital, cd and vinyl versions of the album, (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.

Howdy pals from all canals; it's been one hot minute since I've been within it. Thank you for listening and supporting - even when I'm silent and maybe slightly mentally violent (I just rhymed that - there's no cause for concern). Just a bit of a reflection pod on being thankful to play music at all and a bit of a rearview gaze on my album "Geographics" being almost fully released (and now fully released since this has come out) - thanks for the downloads and likes and kind words. Truly. It means more than you can ever know. Stay tuned for some sweet Graventown spoons.My new album "Geographics" is releasing (on my Bandcamp page only) through late January into late February 2026, and every Monday and Friday of those months, I'll have a new song up for you to digest into your ear canals. You can preorder the digital, cd and vinyl versions of the album, (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.

 Welcome to it. Let's screw it, glue it, and tattoo it. In this episode, I thought it would be fun to do a sonic rundown of the first 5 songs of my new album "Geographics" that started releasing on Jan. 26/26 on Bandcamp. Since Jan 26th, I've been putting out a new song every Monday and Friday and it's been a real journey, so far - and on so many metaphysical levels. I hope these first 5 songs of the record find you well and I hope it's fun to listen to some of the sonic sausage innards and casing concoction of these tunes. Be well and hang on to your minds - always.My new album "Geographics" is releasing (on my Bandcamp page only) through late January into late February 2026, and every Monday and Friday of those months, I'll have a new song up for you to digest into your ear canals. You can preorder the digital, cd and vinyl versions of the album, (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.

Friendoes. Hello. Welcome back to Graventown. Population: You. Here's a new one for your mental glue gun. I've been in and out of interviews for the new album (Geographics) so I snuck this one in and tucked it into the ether right under a finely layered stream of stardust gas. Enjoy it. Try not to annoy it. I'm here for ya, baby.My new album "Geographics" is releasing (on my Bandcamp page only) through late January into late February 2026, and every Monday and Friday of those months, I'll have a new song up for you to digest into your ear canals. You can preorder the digital, cd and vinyl versions of the album, (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.

Friends. I'm back at it again. In Graventown. Thanks for being here. Enjoy this little ditty as I re-emerge and reanimate from the woods and taking care of Dante the dog. Cars are hard. Friends are real. The helpers are there.My new album "Geographics" is releasing (on my Bandcamp page only) through late January into late February 2026, and every Monday and Friday of those months, I'll have a new song up for you to digest into your ear canals. You can preorder the digital, cd and vinyl versions of the album, (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.

rWotD Episode 3165: James McKenty Welcome to random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia's vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Friday, 2 January 2026, is James McKenty.James McKenty is a Canadian musician and recording engineer. His band The Spades,. in which he played guitar, were a roots rock band that released four records produced by Gord Sinclair, Burning on fumes in 2004, Let it Grow in 2008, Subatomic in 2010 and Live from the Narrows in 2012In 2012 McKenty engineered Cuff The Duke's Juno nominated Morning comes and again in 2013 their album Union. In 2013 James engineered and mixed Blue Rodeo's record In our nature which became the highest chart placement for first week sales in the band's history.McKenty has also engineered albums for many other artists, including Melissa Payne, Tara Williamson, Royal Wood and the Weber BrothersThis recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:46 UTC on Friday, 2 January 2026.For the full current version of the article, see James McKenty on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Bluesky at @wikioftheday.com.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Emma.

Heyo River! Wanted to shoot y'all a quickie between xmas and new years in this somewhat indeterminable and liminal space. Be easy on you! And find the reset button for your mind. I'm very excited to release the new album starting at the end of Jan. Stay tuned to Graventown TV to see what it all shall be. Find the gold flecks in your dark forest. They all lead somewhere. I love you.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. I'm also getting ready to launch a brand new album, so brace your sonic souls for that. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada - and remember - you're always welcome in Graventown.

Hello friends. I went on a bit of a tirade here, but the mental health battery seems depleted for so many, so I thought it was fitting. Thought I would send one out to the universe before the busyness of the Holidaze craze gets our goats. There are so many digital voices online vying for your attention so don't be afraid to shut certain ones out. Be in the moment as much as you can, because there are so many forces that are trying to take you out of the moment. All the time. Take care of you.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. I'm also getting ready to launch a brand new album, so brace your sonic souls for that. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada - and remember - you're always welcome in Graventown.

Seasons eatings, my friends. Thank you for the clicks and upticks here in my tiny corner of Graventown. After the recent rad interviews of George Stromboulopoulos and Toronto Mike, it's nice to send out an old school solo mind-massager into the multiverse. I took a few minutes to pause and reflect and look a bit inward in this - the coldest and darkest part of the year. May you find your flow state where you don't have to push so hard. I hope it hits you in the heart cockles. Cockle; such a funny word. Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. I'm also getting ready to launch a brand new album, so brace your sonic souls for that. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada - and remember - you're always welcome in Graventown.

From the approved desk files of Lorne Honickman and from the top shelf blue plate specials at Palma Pasta, I was very happy to welcome Toronto Mike to the Graventown. I'm happy to be in the FOTM (Friends Of Toronto Mike'd) Universe. He's actually an incredibly and prolifically busy human being with very little windows outside of his own work, as he not only runs and produces his own popular podcast called Toronto Mike'd (that has already surpassed WTF w Marc Maron into the 1800 episode space), but produces many others - so he was a hard man to pin down. Nevertheless, we made it work and had a wondrous and whimsical chat about a swath of topics (as we always do) and I even got Mike to open up about his beginnings into the art of the interview. We yakked about Marc Maron, Joel Plaskett, Alan Doyle, Strombo, TSN's Dave Hodge, and so much more. Enjoy. (Please note; due to technical problems in the Graventown studio, Mike was kind enough to record this over zoom from the swanky Toronto Mike'd Corporate Studios - I'm still waiting for the bill. Kidding, Mike. Love you.)Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. I'm also getting ready to launch a brand new album, so brace your sonic souls for that. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada - and remember - you're always welcome in Graventown.

Friends. Howdy. I sure haven't been around these parts but I've appreciated the clicks and upticks. Thank you! I'm entering hibernation station for this part of the season so please excuse my slow podcast delivery system, but I wanted to fire one off into the universe, regardless. I used to have a supervisor who would say "irregardless of that" all the time to try and sound smart, and it always irked me (because that's not even really a word - well, it sort of is - anyways, let's not get too deep into the word-weeds). I have some shows upcoming and some thoughts I wanted to share and I hope you all enjoy the auditory rollercoaster ramblings of my current state. Love, peace and chicken grease.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada - and remember - you're always welcome in Graventown.

Friends with no love ends; it's been a few seconds. I hope you're all well and raising some kindness and love-based hell. Thank you as always for being along on my podcastical odyssey. Here are some thick thoughts post Canadian east-coast traveling and unraveling after spending a week recording a new album. I talk about my last podcast with Strombo (George Stroumboulopoulos) and hitting the 100 mark, the stirring of the sonic sauce of the new album with Charles Austin and Melissa Payne and all of their beautiful and bountiful work out at Ocean Floor, and just re-regulating after the deregulating of travel and a truly immersive experience. You are loved. Don't forget that.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada - and remember - you're always welcome in Graventown.

G-towners and nonfrowners; hello. Well I did tell you that I did indeed have something epic planned for the century mark episode - and I feel pretty confident to say that I delivered on that promise of Epic-iosity. My guest for episode 100 is none other Canadian and American media personality, ex CBC and Muchmusic television host, podcaster, Apple Music showrunner and all around renaissance man George Stroumboulopoulos. George and I started chatting way back during the early days of the pandemic lockdowns, when he would have me pop on his livestreams (as just some random music guy from Ottawa) and when I was doing the graventown livestream basement shows, he would kindly boost my signal and say nice things in the chat. So as you can imagine, I was thrilled to the gills to have such a busy, massively well known and loved high-octane mind in the graventown studio with me. We talked about a metric tonne of topics; music, film, comedy, the arts in general, Norm Macdonald, Kevin Hearn, Marc Maron, Tom Green, David Letterman, The Misfits, long form conversations, human connection and all kinds of golden goose dropping shiznit. I hope you enjoyed our hang. Good things, friends. Thanks for being here for such a special and very monumental episiode.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada - and remember - you're always welcome in Graventown.

Friends. I'm incredibly close to episode 100 and I do have something special planned, and as a lead up event - I was lucky enough to pin down the unpinnable Stephen Stanley for a great return to G-town conversation about all things music, our upcoming tour, making albums in the current age, our upcoming tour, living room shows and so much more. Oh - and did I mention that we have an upcoming tour?! In September?!? Buy tickets at graven dot can or stephenstanleyband dot com and come see our cosmic comic stylings in a town near you! Stephen has become a huge mentor-like hawk-friend of my musical journey for so many reasons, and I hope you chuckle as much as we did while recording this beauty.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada - and remember - you're always welcome in Graventown.

Hello friends. I admittedly don't even remember what this episode was about as I was between Guelph and Uxbridge - and post gig criscrossing and careening through Central Ontarian byways at the time. But I hope you enjoy the vernacular of my cerebral inhaling and exhaling and I appreciate you listening more than you'll ever know.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada - and remember - you're always welcome in Graventown.

Friends, Countryfolk and city dwellers; lend me your digital devices. Welcome back to another regularly scheduled closed circuit television program called Graventown. I was lucky enough to get a few minutes with an insanely busy Ottawa celebrity, radio and tv broadcaster, comedy advocate, philanthropic community connector and all around lovely dude and dad - Dylan Black. Dylan is someone whose interview path I happily crossed many times on Rogers Daytime TV when promoting a local Ottawa show or an album release. We had a great convo about the changing landscape of journalism and print media, online landmines, music, comedy and all things fatherhood. I hope you enjoy it and I hope you know that you are perpetually welcome in Graventown.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Friends. Howdy. Back in the Ontario saddle and riding roughshod back into normalcy after basking in the British Columbian glow. How are you all? I hope this pod finds you well in your midsummer splendour. Just wanted to reflect on my glorious trip and to think about some great and glorious things upcoming. That's all for now. See ya real soon.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Friendoes. I'm on the coast and I don't have my good keyboard so this will be a quick descriptor; I had a beautiful walk home from the pub I ate at last night to my tiny room in the mountains and wanted to share my thoughts and my walk-view with all of you lovelies. More to come. Thanks for sharing in this sometimes breath-catching moment (as it was almost fully uphill).Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Well hello, friendoes. I hope your summers are sizzling and your drinks are fizzling. Nothing like dropping an ice cube into anything carbonated. I wanted to get a few quick thoughts out into the multiverse about death. I know it's not always an easy subject to bridge, but I hope these words are timely for y'all. May death give you richness in life - that's the way the cookie crumbles for me, most days. I love you and enjoy your July!Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Howdy Graventowners - I hope you're drinking up the summer months with a thirsty fury and an existential slurp. This weather is golden and we get so little of it - so may you take the time to get off the screens and just drool on your porch or lie on a park bench. Today, I was lucky to have a very cool Canadian and specifcially Ontarian-famous guest; Gisele Corinthios. Gisele is a creator, writer and performer in Toronto, Canada and for 18 years, Gisele was the host and producer for TVO/TV Ontario's top-rated educational preschool morning show called "Gisele's Big Backyard" (formerly "The Nook"). Gisele is a livewire of energy and creativity and basically built a massively watched childrens television show from the ground up and was (and still is) a household name in broadcasting. We had a lovely emotional and vivacious chat and I hope you have a listen while you light up a "dog-walker" and take a stroll. Much love, get outside and chat soon. Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Hello friends. I'm sending this out to you through channels of pure love and understanding - in these wild times of hate and hurt - and I hope that you're as well as you can be. I've got some summer shows coming but I've been feeling the need to just slow everything down and so I intend to do as such. I'll still be here - and hey - I'm almost at a hundred eppies (what the kids call "episodes") so I need to crack that monumental milestone - but I'm also gonna do some laying low. Some writing. Some creating. Some natureing. Some journaling. I'll see ya where I see ya. Hope you get outside and suck up summer through a straw. You are loved and always welcome in Graventown.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Friends, Countryfolk and Citykids; lend me your ears. As we rapidly approach the century mark episode of Graventown, I was mega triple pineapple lucky to sit down with one of the most renowned, busiest, hilarious and well known music makers in all Canada direct from the wanderlusty Winnipeg, Manitoba; Romi Mayes. When she's not winning awards for her heart-stinger songs, Romi is a trailblazing business woman who runs Sure Shot Bookings which is a booking company that connects hundreds of music makers from all across Canada. She is raw, unfiltered and real; my kind of human being! We had a wicked chat and I hope your ears enjoy it as much as our brains did. Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

As one the three majestic sparkplugs that fire up the magnificent machine of the indie folk-rock/alt-country award winning band Elliott Brood, Mark Sasso had a lot to say and we had a lovely flowing chat about musicality, all things music, songwriting habits, the fashion of music and the power of songs. I really enjoyed this convo and I was thankful that Mark some time out of his busy schedule to chat with little old me. Watch for Mark's new solo side project where he's playing some new songs under the name "Oh Sasso". I actually thought his last name was O'Sasso until he corrected me in the interview. Enjoy the enlightening ear candy of our words and sentences. Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne, Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low) and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Heyo friendoes. Here's one from the road in this insanely magically muddy mentally marooning month of May. I'm typing this from the teleport of the toucan. Getting ready for a fun festival atmosphere. There shall be drunken throngs kanoodling and pawing  each other on Princess  Street tonight, dearies. Make no mistake. Slow it down!Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Hello friendoes: I hope you enjoy my return to the homestead - far from the carcast realm - and into the white hospital desk microphone majorca of the mind. In this hive-zone of busy buzzworld that we reside within, sometimes it's important to remember that a basic day with no plans or no insane tasks can be a major metaphysical gift. Had a few other mental lightning bolts that I wanted to share with y'all as well. Thanks for being here, near and dear to the Graventown ecosystem. Hearts to all.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Oh friends - these days, the good feels seem to have no ends. This was a humdinger straight from the heart of the road-weary but eye-teary Gravenator while being Peterborough bound and recapping a Toronto Tragically Hip-based Dave Bookman benefit that was a night of nights for the soul and mind for oh many reasons. I hope you are ready to cry - because I sure was when I recorded this. I love y'all so much and thanks for stopping by Graventown. You are always welcome here.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Friends; this was a gushy one from the weatherbeaten civic on a post-Owen Sound/Uxbridge rip. Lots about my pal Krista and the Thornbury crew and lots about my pals in the Uxbridge region (Sandford specifically). If you're not up for some feels, maybe redirect your ear vehicles to an alternate sideroad because this sucker puts the pedal down on the love expressway. Have the best day and thanks for clocking in (PS - another carcast is coming soon) and being you.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Friends; I appreciate the clicks and the likes and the lingers on this little podcast o'mine - because I'm gonna let it shine. This was a fun one to shoot into the ethersphere and you might even catch a nugget of a new song in the middle somewhere. As we wade through the murky waters of these times, I hope you can find hope - however that looks or manifests itself for you. Hope can be triggering - but it shouldn't be. With a little faith, trust and pixie dust, we will get there. More to come. Thanks for being you and for stopping by Graventown.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Hello friends - I hope the depth of this world isn't giving you the bends, these days. Hard to escape that out of sorts wonky bonkers vibe - but we are pushing through the weeds, regardless. (Weeds? Deep sea diving? Mixed metaphor Matty?) Here's my latest in a new series called Offroad Recalibrations. I hope you enjoy the viewfinder wayback feels. I appreciate you. More guests coming! Stay tuned to Graventown TV. You're loved.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Friends without ends. Lorders without borders. How y'all doin' out there in radioland? Is it just me, or this spring seeming to be a bit bleak? Feels like there's way more room for the rich and less room for the meek. But I digress (with little success). Just wanted to fire one off to the universe and yawp one out into the void. Wanted to talk a bit about my Always Everything vinyl and a few other things as I strolled through Bruce Pit. Check out my showdates at graven dot ca. You are loved and you are worthy of love. Peace and lambshank grease. Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Back on the airwaves, my dudes. It's been a minute between roughshod roadway rides through the highways and biways of middle ontario, but I'm back for a heavy hot minute. Really hope to see you at an upcoming April show - but I wanted to take a minute and indulge my mind in the topic of rest. That's right.  For some of us, it can feel like laziness, but it sure ain't that. It's all the good things that your brain needs to cultivate and harvest joy and energy. I hope this hits your solar plexus in that perfect spot. You are loved. Hope to see ya at a stage near you soon.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

81 episodes!?! Someone call the PRESSES!! Oh wait - they're busy dealing with all that nationalism bordering on fascism stuff. Right. Well hey - at any rate - welcome back to Graventown for a super special one off about finding the proper accoutrements to season and spice your mental wellbeing. These are some things that have worked for me. I hope you're alright out there, friends. Much love, peace and chicken grease.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Pals from all canals; what's the hibbidy? Are you singing dippity doo dah or skippity toilet? I hope in all of the chaotic streams of info that you can settle your senses and rest your rendering system for a few moments and find your why. Dig deep into the soil and raw earth of you - you might be surprised what you find. This is the conclusion of a little series I rambled called Finding The Why in a time where it seems like we are told to have no why and to just exist. Keep asking the questions and keep listening to music. I love you.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Hello friends. It's been a few weeks since I've a couple stones to throw into ye olde pod pond, but I'm back in the saddle. I thought I'd rap a bit about Finding The Why - which is a concept that is going to be important as we all make our way through the shifting sands of our current timeline. It's a two parter - so hang in there and grab some popcorn. I love you and appreciate you.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Folks - hello. Welcome back to the Graventown jamboree. Grab your sonic picnic basket for a little auditory meadow-frolic. This episode was a great and golden flowing convo between myself and western Canadian Edmontonian music maker and multi-project collaborator Mallory Chipman. With 5 records to her name and successful tours across Canada, Europe, and Japan, and an official nominee for Country Music Alberta's Folk Artist of the year, Canadian singer-songwriter Mallory Chipman is forging new paths on the music scene. Her genre-bending tendencies, powerful sound, and story-driven songwriting has been described as “some of the finest folk rock currently being made” (Amplify Music Magazine) and has set her apart as “a rising light in Canadian music” (NewTec Radio). Also known as one half of the rising alt-country duo The Goddamsels, Mallory Chipman is a true raconteuse, praised for her work as both a solo artist and collaborator, and for her skills as a songwriter, arranger, producer, and music scholar. Mallory and I played a show together at Live in Elgin back in fall of 2024, and we will surely be collaborating at some shows again so stay tuned to Graventown FM!Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Well hello, friends. We are back at it - yet again. I hope 2025 is finding you as well as it can so far and I thought I'd take a stab at some healthy ideals to help you on your way out the door into the wild blue yonder of the approaching (insert witty metaphor here). Some great guests coming soon so stay tuned and thanks for all the follows and likes - it means more than you know! Thanks for being here. You are loved.Catch me in a town near you in 2025 alongside Melissa Payne and many other rad artists by visiting my website to see where I'm playing. If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason - and I love you. Thanks for stopping by Graventown. Yer always welcome here. As a full time independent artist, you can support me by buying the Always Everthing vinyl or brand new "block heater" toque here or by joining my SUPER RAD subscription service at https://ko-fi.com/gravencanada

Melissa Payne is the bestselling author of four novels, including A Light in the Forest and The Night of Many Endings. After an early career raising money for nonprofit organizations, Melissa began dreaming about becoming a published author and wrote her first novel. Her stories feature small mountain towns with characters searching for redemption, love, and second chances. They have been three-time Colorado Book Award finalists and Colorado Authors League 2019 and 2023 winners for mainstream fiction. She enjoys speaking about her writing journey at book clubs, literary festivals and in interviews. She believes that everyone has a story to share.  Melissa lives in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with her husband and three children, a friendly mutt, a very loud cat, and the occasional bear. Melissa's latest, The Wild Road Home, was released March. For more information, visit www.melissapayneauthor.com or find her on Instagram @melissapayne_writes.   Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro RecordingFollow the Writing Table:On Twitter/X: @writingtablepcEverywhere else: @writingtablepodcastEmail questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: writingtablepodcast@gmail.com.

Host Cyrus Webb welcomes author Melisa Payne to Conversations LIVE to discuss her love of storytelling and new book THE WILD ROAD HOME. 

Jason and Travis are joined by Melissa Payne, a Roehl recruiter and the driving force behind a special load that helped a Camp Toccoa Military Veteran Project. Melissa talks about hiring new Roehl drivers, how her passion for Roehl and Camp Toccoa came together and how Roehl's values matter to her and to the teammates she hires. Roehl Transport is one of North America's safest and most successful trucking companies. Grow with us - we are hiring for driving jobs (find truck driving jobs near you) and careers that support our driving teammates!Learn more about Roehl Transport and how having a CEO who is also a driver impacts our driving teammates through profit sharing, address-to-address practical route mileage and our Dynamic Pay Plans that better compensate a driver for his or her time. 

This is a story about a young woman running away and finding her home. It begins with the moment she decides to run, when she faces a painful truth about her boyfriend.  We're talking about A LIGHT IN THE FOREST - a Colorado Book Award Finalist - on this Desideratum. A Desideratum is an essential thing. I'm audiobook narrator Theresa Bakken and I think this story is full of essential things.  This week we're talking about being a work in progress with author Melissa Payne whose new novel A Light in the Forest got us talking about small towns, and pigs, and intuition. I want to thank the Colorado Sun for shining their light on Melissa, I listen to the Sun's podcast called The Daily Sun-Up.. It's a great way to start your day if you're curious about Colorado culture, history,  news of all kinds delivered to your ears. Then every Sunday I check out the SunLit feature at coloradosun.com for author spotlights and local independent bookstore recommendations. SunLit editor Kevin Simpson often talks to authors on The Daily Sun-up's Friday podcasts. Check it out at coloradosun.com or wherever your'e listening to this podcast.  Also - a big thank you to the author Melissa Payne, the talented and authentic voice of narrator Kay Eluvian, the audiobook publisher Brilliance audio, and the audiobook production team at Deyan audio Devon Hammond and Yanni Caldas for their work on A Light in the Forest. And, as always thank you for listening.  https://coloradohumanities.org/programs/colorado-book-awards/ https://www.melissapayneauthor.com/ author Melissa Payne's website link https://www.kayeluvian.com/audiobooks/ narrator Kay Eluvian's website link https://coloradosun.com/category/sunlit/sunlit-interviews/ a Link to the Colorado Sun website's SunLit page --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theresa-bakken/support

One important thing: I'd love it if you could complete this super brief questionnaire so I can make sure the content for year two of the Talk Copy to Me podcast is exactly what you need. No questions are mandatory! __________________________________________________________________ Can you believe it's been a whole year since the Talk Copy to Me podcast launched? I certainly can't, but it's true. As of today, we've produced 48 episodes (well, 47 episodes and one trailer) in that time — 16 of those were solo episodes and 31 were interviews with incredible creators and business owners. I'm so grateful for all the experts who joined us and shared their wisdom with us, and I'm so thankful for you for listening to the show over the past year. In this episode, you'll learn about: Why I started a podcast in January of 2022 Why I chose podcasting over starting a YouTube channel The changes I made to the podcast over the course of the past twelve month How I plan to evolve the podcast in 2023 Who I hired to help with the podcast What surprised me most about podcasting Where I found the most joy when it comes to podcasting How I ideate content for the show and a quick review of all the mini-series we've had on the podcast so far Who I have to thank for the podcast's success in the past year Mentioned in this episode: Deanna Seymour who I hired for a VIP day in which she helped me set up my visuals, intro, and outro Christy Cegelski, host of Captivate and Convert, who suggested I create a launch team to help me share the show Episode 022 with Melissa Payne of StoryScout Digital on voice of customer research And don't forget to join the waitlist for the 2023 Spring Clean Your Site challenge while you can so you can get a discount code and be alerted before I open up enrollment to the public! Join us here: https://erinollila.ck.page/9984c08ba7 __________________________________________________________________ Learn more about your host Erin Ollila believes in the power of words and how a message can inform – and even transform – its intended audience. She graduated from Fairfield University with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, and went on to co-found Spry, an award-winning online literary journal. When Erin's not helping her clients write email sequences or improve their website copy, you can catch her hosting the Talk Copy to Me podcast and guesting on shows such as Profit is a Choice, She Built This, and Counsel Cast. Learn more about her and how she works with her clients at https://erinollila.com Reach out to continue the conversation: https://erinollila.com/podcast and https://instagram.com/erinollila