"You roll with it" — Graven's trip through darkness led to new album

GravenWith Megan Nash and Tariq Anwar
When: Friday, Aug. 4, 8 p.m.
Where: Pressed, 750 Gladstone Ave.
Matty McKechnie, the man behind the music of Graven, had to take a trip through the darkness before he could see the light.
“It sounds cliché, but it’s like you have to go to the dark places to get to the good,” McKechnie said of his latest album, Jaybird.
The album draws its name, and much of its inspiration, from the fleeting moments he shared with East Coast rock