Graventown

Episode 106: Dirty December Thirty

30 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 fin...

Episode 105: Find Your Filter

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 woul...

Episode 104: Peeling Back The Layers

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Stro...

Episode 103: Interview w/ Toronto Mike

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 102: The Low Flow

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Friends. Howdy. I sure haven't been around these parts but I've appreciated the clicks and upticks. Thank you! I'm entering hibernation...

Episode 101: Minding The Gap (Post East Coast Decompression)

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 alway...

Episode 100: Interview w/ George Stroumboulopoulos

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 c...

Episode 99: The Return of Stephen Stanley (Lowest of the Low/Stephen Stanley Band)

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 98: Sobriety And Piety

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 97: Interview w/ Dylan Black

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Friends, Countryfolk and city dwellers; lend me your digital devices. Welcome back to another regularly scheduled closed circuit television program ca...

Episode 96: Western Reflections + Eastern Projections

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 hop...

Episode 95: North Van Visceral

26 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 94: A Quick One About Death

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Well hello, friendoes. I hope your summers are sizzling and your drinks are fizzling. Nothing like dropping an ice cube into anything carbonated. I wa...

Episode 93: Interview w/ Gisele Corinthios

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 92: Summer Slowdowner

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...

Episode 91: Interview w/ Romi Mayes

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Friends, Countryfolk and Citykids; lend me your ears. As we rapidly approach the century mark episode of Graventown, I was mega triple pineapple lucky...

Episode 90: Interview w/ Mark Sasso (Elliott Brood)

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Sa...

Episode 89: Carcast 11 / Slow It Down

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 88: The Gift Of A Basic Day

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 87: Carcast 10 / Highflyer Feels

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 86: Carcast 9 / Love Download

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 85: Joy-Harvest-Mind-Hang

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 fu...

Episode 84: Offroad Recalibrations

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 83: Word To April Third

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ble...

Episode 82: Be Ok With Building Rest

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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'...

Episode 81: Good Gravy

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

81 episodes!?! Someone call the PRESSES!! Oh wait - they're busy dealing with all that nationalism bordering on fascism stuff. Right. Well hey - ...

Episode 80: Finding The Why (Part 2)

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 y...

Episode 79: Finding The Why

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 78: Interview w/ Mallory Chipman

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Folks - hello. Welcome back to the Graventown jamboree. Grab your sonic picnic basket for a little auditory meadow-frolic. This episode was a great an...

Episode 77: Settling In, Alarmism and Intention

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 hea...

Episode 76: Delving Into Darkness To Live In The Light - Part Two

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Graventowner non-frowners. Thanks for being here. On a dusty dark damp drive across highway 7, I thought I'd pop this two part series out into th...

Episode 75: Delving Into Darkness To Live In The Light - Part One

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Friends; hello. Happy almost 2025. I hope part 1 of this 2 part series helps you find that still small inner voice to do some work on the stormy darkn...

Episode 74: Interview w/ Miranda Journey

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Friends. Countryfolk. Lend me your auditory holes  (Good thing I never performed Shakespeare). Yahoo for being back in the pod saddle and I had a cha...

Episode 73: Hibernation Station/Year In Rearview

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Friends. Been in the creative womb lately and just trying to listen to my inner quiet  during this loud oncoming holiday season. I also took a bit of...

Episode 72: Less Shouting; More Listening

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hello friends. Well it sure has been a few milliseconds since I popped out a sonic egg of truth into the mental incubator of the podcast ethersphere. ...

Episode 71: The Friendly Ghost Of The Coast

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Friends;  what a special episode indeed because as you hear this, I'll most likely be in the friendly Atlantic Canadian skies, drinking a mornin...

Episode 70: When You Think You've Rolled With It For Too Long, Just Keep On Rollin'

26 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hello Graventown residents. Sorry for the delay - I was fairly truculent with Tuesday uploads for a while and then some life stuff happened. You under...

Episode 69: Interview w/ Christina Martin and Dale Murray

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Friends. Sometimes you get the egg whites, and sometimes you get the meaty yolks. Christina Martin is my sister from another mister who I've neve...

Episode 68: Interview w/ Byron Bertram

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Friends - welcome back to the G-town get-down yet again. Musicians and comedians often feel like we are distant relatives; there's a correlation ...

Episode 67: Interview w/ Ron Hawkins

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Friends, countryfolk and city scoundrels; hello. This was an extra special cake and ice cream episode of Graventown because I got to talk with someone...

Episode 66: Golden Hour Power

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Friends! Here's one I ripped off into the universe from the municipal roads of Nepean. Just some post thoughts and ponderings. I hope they find y...

Episode 65: Get Back To Gratitude

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Friends. I hope this G-man solo ear candy store visit finds you well. Adulting. Music. Gratitude. All these themes and more are in this episode. I hop...

Episode 64: Interview w/ Matt Beisner

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Graventowners and Getdowners; welcome back. As I continue to pump these episodes out into the ethersphere, I'm so stunned and thankful to meet an...

Episode 63: Interview Two w/ Stephen Stanley

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Well hey friends. I'm trying to get back into the podcast fray and I always appreciate your ears and support. Starting in September, I'm gon...

Episode 62: Interview w/ Broken Down Golf Cart

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hallo my d00dz. I've been summering. I hope you have done the same. Amidst the laking and cottaging, it was fun to fire off an August ember into ...

Episode 61: Putting Off The Pod and A New Plea

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hello G town friends. It's been a nanosecond or two. But I'm rested and back in the pod saddle with some fresh rattle/out the box takes on t...

Episode 60: Interview w/ Cocktails With Dimples And The Beard

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Friends. How do the seconds turn into days and hours and weeks?  What in the actual Axel Foley is going on around here? At any rate - here we are. Ep...

Episode 59: Resurrection and Jargon Inflection

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Friends. Hokey  Dinah. It's been another hot minute since I've been in and around the podsphere. I hope this  jargonesque episode wets the...

Episode 58: Interview w/ Dennis Moseley-Williams

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pals - I've had  this episode simmering slightly on the backburner for a while but  it's finally braised and ready to be plated for your m...

Episode 57: It Will Be Okay

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hello friends - it's been a few buckets  of hot seconds since I've been in the podverse. I found some time between touring to get some shiz...

Episode 55: Mental Health Mathematics

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Friends - here we are YET again. I hope you're ready for three hot "Twenty Two-Four" pods in an oven of contentment that are spiced, fr...

Episode 56: Pre Xmas Positivity (Recorded December 6th, 2023)

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Graventown Friends from all of  the map-ends. I was feeling pretty raw when this cast of ye olde pod came out just before the yuletide glee. I hope ...

Episode 54: Big Swings Bring Big Things/Pitchfork Problematics

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hallo  my palllllzzzz. Welcome back to Graventown; Population - You. It's been way too long  since I sang  the podcast song. I've misssed...

Episode 53: Carcast 8 (Dec 10, 2023) - Musical Pain Therapy

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Was nice to have some runway between Ottawa and Kingston to launch a few thoughts about loss and life and musical light that guides us through it all....

Episode 52: Navigating Bummertown (Pt. 2)

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pals. I'm back with some solo yolo yeet Graven tidings for your G-town sundown fomo. I don't know what that means, but I felt semi cool writ...

Episode 51: Interview w/ Jenn Grant

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Podpals. Thanks for following the good ship Graventown into the night. After a short hiatus, we are back in the saddle with episode 51 (can ya believe...

Episode 48: Rewinder Interview (Simple Complex recording interview w Kevin Landry/Graven from Sept 9, 2021 live at Big Rig)

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

G-towner non-frowners. Thanks for being here. This was a lost episode where my pal Kevin Landry interviewed me in Sept 2021 right before I was shippin...

Episode 50: Interview w/ Toni Nagy

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Friends and fam in the Graventown flock - you're in for a treat for my 50th episode. How do you describe a one-woman ultra-unique powerfully poig...

Episode 49: Carcast 8 (Aug 19, 2023) - Prince Edward County Powers of Golden Gratitude

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hello pals. If you've made it this far through the carcasts, you win a pretzel. Please redeem your voucher at gravensuperfans dot org slash gadzo...

Episode 47: Carcast 6 (July 7, 2023) - Big Smoke Birthday Banger

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hello again from the golden Graventown fountain pen. My apologies for the audio in this episode (as for a good 17 minutes, it sounds like I'm rec...

Episode 46: Carcast 5 (June 23, 2023) - Toronto Timewarp

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ballers. What's the shot? Here's another Carcast on one of my 78 trips to Toronto in 2023. Just kidding - but I bet I went to that lovely ci...

Episode 45: Carcast 4 (May 26, 2023) - Montreal Mixed Metaphors

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Folks. Hello. It's been quiet on the dusty Graventown podcast front. Tumbleweeds have been rustling in studio 26K. It's been a busy summer a...

Episode 44: Simeon Ross (August 25th Garrison Preview)

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Well golden Graventowners: that was a lot of fun having Simeon Ross on for the second time since starting the podcast - and before even hitting number...

Episode 43: Ally Corbett (Singer Songwriter/Multi Instrumentalist/Touring Musician with The Mahones & more)

25 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're back at it again with the sonic white vans, friends. That's a tik tok reference from 2016. I try to stay hip.  I hope you enjoy this ...

Episode 42: Oliver George (Just Chill With Oliver George)

09 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Friends - hello. I'm back in the Graventown basement again - stirring up the dust and making a fuss. What can be said about Oliver George? Oliver...

Episode 41: Craig Smith (Four Winds Music Festival Preview)

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fishes of the pod pond; I have not been casting my pod-reel and for that, I apologize - but I've been extremely busy (like a buzzing pollenating ...

Episode 40: Carcast 3 (March 5, 2023) - Post Storm Seasonings

23 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to carcast 3, my dudes and my 40th Graventown episode! WOOOOT! This was a more recent snapshot of my mindscape after a hardcore storm almost s...

Episode 39: Carcast 2 (Oct 13, 2022) - Folk Music Ontario

23 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Carcast number two comin' atcha - red hot and ready like a little caesars late night pretzel pizza with extra orange cheese drizzle. This carcast...

Episode 38: Carcast 1 (June 21, 2022) - Wolfe Island

23 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Friends. It's really been a red hot chili peps hot minute since I've been anywhere near the podcast wheelhouse - and so I thank you for subs...

Episode 37: Interview w/ Dennis Ellsworth

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Friends. Welcome back to Graventown yet again. I don't always pod, when I do, I pod with the gods. Here's another one for your content wood-...

Episode 36: Interview w/ Stephen Paul Taylor

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

My golden goose of a wild creative energy guru guest today in Graventown almost needs no introduction, but he's gonna get one anyway. We talked a...

Episode 35: On The Edges Of Death

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a little different from other Graventown formats but I really felt the need to talk in depth about death and grief (as both entities h...

Episode 34: Interview w/ Jill Barber

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gadzooks - this is one gold nugget of a special Graventown episode as my guest is a songmaker who, in my mind, makes music that is not of this world. ...

Episode 33: Navigating Bummertown

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pals. Just wanted to hop on the mic for a solo wonky-donkey ride through the dead neon sign landscape of my mind and talk about some of the inside bas...

Episode 32: Interview w/ Stephen Stanley

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Graventowners and Quarter Pounders: Let's put some cheese and sauce on season two and catch the intellectual train to flavour country. With me to...

Episode 31: Interview w/ Sean Cooley

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today's golden goose of a Graventown guest is someone who has been involved in my life in many different iterations. As a kid, I would hear my fr...

Episode 30 - Interview w/ Tom Thompson

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Graventowners and Bright Eyes Turn-Arounders - what's the ham hock? This weeks brand new season 2 episode is all about someone who has become a b...

Episode 29: Interview w/ Alexandra Sullivan

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Whizbangers and swizzle sticks. Season two is really rocketing out of the mental Cape Canaveral of our mindspheres. I'm so thankful to have had s...

Episode 28: Interview w/ Matt Mays

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Holy cow, my dudes. I have a real hot pocket of a cheesy saucy episode in store for you today.  Matt Mays is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter ...

Episode 27: Interview w/ Keith Coogan

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Graventowner Beancounters: get off the abacus and on to the graven bus. Welcome back for another episode of Season Two to warm your intellectual biscu...

Episode 26 - Interview w/ Janelle Niles

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Graventowners: welcome here - wherever here is. Here we freaking are. Season two. I even have a new theme song, for gosh sakes. So kick back, grab a m...

Episode 25: Interview w/ Seth Morris

29 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Folks - have I got a big bang of a beautiful Graventown season-one-ender for you. Originally from Marin County, California, Seth Morris is a comedic w...

Episode 24: The Return/Do What You Love

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's been one hot RHCP minute, my pals. This summer has been redonkulously busy for shows and I've finally had a few minutes to reflect on s...

Episode 23 - Simplicity vs. Complexity

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Friends - it's been a red hot chili pepper minute since I've been on here. I sort of wanted to talk openly and freely, with little context o...

Episode 22 - Interview w/ Megan Nash

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Holy crow: was it ever lovely to converse and catch up with my old touring pal and JUNO nominated mega-talent Saskatchewanian music magician Megan Nas...

Episode 21 - Interview w/ Waubgeshig Rice

01 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today in Graventown, I had the chance to chat with a fellow CBC alumni and someone I would run into frequently in my journalism days. Waubgeshig Rice ...

Episode 20 - Interview w/ Bubba B the MC

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the Graventown studio today, I had the chance to talk with a high energy pal and hip-hop performer and actor who I met in the middle of a prairie f...

Episode 19 - Interview w/ Caroline Marie Brooks

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Graventown tree, acorns! Today on the show I was lucky and grateful to speak with Caroline Marie Brooks. Caroline Marie Brooks is ...

Episode 18 - Interview w/ Devin Cuddy

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back pals. Today on the G-town pod, it was lovely to chat with someone who comes from a long line of lovely Canadian musical lineage: Devin Cu...

Episode 17 - Back In The Saddle

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Graventowners: It's been a minute since I've been in it. How are you? I have recovered from a sickness and I have a new album out in the eth...

Episode 16 - Interview w/ Christina Martin

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back, Graventowners. I hope you're feeling less burdened as we push on through the Pandy and make our way towards...something? Today on t...

Episode 15 - Interview w/ Danny Michel

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 15! Holy mother of pearl; who'd ever thunk it? Thank you for being a part of this fun, zany, welcoming little vibrant community called Gr...

Episode 14 - Interview w/ 0Stella

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I had the chance to have a Graventown chat with Liz Pomeroy who is known musically as 0Stella. 0Stella [oh-Stella] is the solo projec...

Episode 13 - Self Love

17 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Happy mid-January, Graventowners. For some of us, this is the hardest time of year - when the promise of the new year and those magical drunken resolu...

Episode 12 - Interview with Simeon Ross

07 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Happy January, pals. Onward we roll. I hope you're staying as safe and as warm as you can. On this episode, I was thankful to have some laughs an...

Episode 11 - Holding Pattern

29 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pals - welcome back to another Graventown gold nugget. Today, I felt very personal, raw and insular and wanted to be open with y'all about a few ...

Episode 10 - Interview with Xanthe Alexis

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On this epic episode number 10 (Woot woot!), I was able to have a very epic guest in the form of Colorado Springs spiritual songmaker and vocal angeli...

Episode 9 - Interview with Slow Leaves

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this 9th and mystical episode of the Graventown pod, I had the chance to talk with song-forger and tune-wielder and long-time pal Grant Davidson wh...

Episode 8 - Interview with Eamon McGrath

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Fun to be back in the Graventown Podcast command centre - and I was lucky enough to catch up with a singer songwriter who is literally always on the i...

Episode 7 - Interview with Skye Wallace

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Friends - it's been a minute! But I'm back at the podcast helm to enliven your minds with a few red-hot-and-ready musician interviews in the...