Writing music for one’s friends is the absolute best. My face melted the first time I heard them do this. gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com

Nine characters. Six rooms. One inter-dimensional hotel. gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com

The first single from 'Elevator Songs' is called "Speaking in Tongues." The album is set in an inter-dimensional hotel where the laws of space and time have been gleefully kicked to the curb. If it pleases you, have a listen to the first single, "Speaking in Tongues": www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MEw...

Y'all. We made a record together. gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com/album/elevat...

Sneaking in a wee PDX show in March! Super tiny venue, so get involved while you can. strumpdx.com/gabriel-kaha...

Less than one percent of the U.S. population speaks Italian. It makes absolutely no sense that people go to the Metropolitan Opera to hear La traviata. Am I missing something??

I know about 50 words of Spanish and could not be less the target audience of Bad Bunny's music and I still sobbed through much of the halftime show. What an incredible piece of spectacle/theater/lehrstücke. Bravo to the hundreds and hundreds of folks who brought it to life.

This is very good rhetoric, but man, Ossoff needs a better front-of-house engineer. That 518 hz hum is torture. Sincerely, Your neighborhood audio scold

Stoked to be doing my first solo show at Carnegie Hall next season. I’ll have a new sheaf of songs; mark your calendars!

I wrote about what it means to return to my two solo musical plays, 'Magnificent Bird' and 'Book of Travelers,' in this moment of national limbo. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/contemplat...

cishet autocorrects to cashew, and i'm thinking—as a cashew white man—about adopting it.

Life hack. cc: @tylerfromtheinternet.com

Hi folks. I’m very sorry to announce that this Sunday’s show in Cambridge has been postponed due to uncertainty about the weather. Please watch this space or subscribe to my newsletter for updates regarding an upcoming Boston-area appearance. gabrielkahane.substack.com

we are a nation of immigrants www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCQO...

Laying in the dark with my two daughters who just fell asleep listening to Leon Fleisher’s late recording of Sheep May Safely Graze (trans. Myra Hess) and nearly in tears thinking about how the world can be simultaneously so beautiful and so cruel

A song for Minneapolis. open.substack.com/pub/gabrielk...

Fellowship of Italian Cattle preparing a statement on Greg Bovino

anyone else thinking of migrating away from gmail in the wake of new ai integration, and if so, what platform/client(s) do you recommend!?

Hello. The world is a mess. I am heartbroken, as I suspect are many of you. And yet! I’m going out on tour next month. I would love to see you. Details here: gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/january-ne...

Starting an app called Touch Grass where your phone spontaneously combusts upon start up, and then

Reading John Ganz’ exceptional ‘When the Clock Broke,’ and I finally get it: Stephen Miller is the Murray Rothbard of Pat Buchanans.

Six spots remain for my January songwriting/composition seminar (1/11, 1/18, 1/25 all online), which begins a week from today. Two of these are scholarships, so please send me a note if you can’t afford the fee but would like to participate. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/the-year-i...

I thought 2026 was supposed to be better than last year

Did a substantial interview with @leahroseman.bsky.social — we covered many topics related to songwriting, orchestration, the artist as citizen, etc. Unfortunately, this was recorded before we started doing war crimes in Venezuela, so you won’t hear me opine on that subject. pod.link/1577769717/e...

If you have questions about the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and why it's significant that Mamdani scrapped an earlier executive order adopting it, please give this essay a read. Spoiler: the IHRA definition of antisemitism does not make Jews safer! gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/the-bibi-w...

I was not okay with the descent into authoritarianism but now I have no choice but to support Donald J. Trump

i mean come on

registration is now open for a three-session master class i'm offering in january! gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/the-year-i...

cc: @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

cc: @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

A440 in the streets, A415 in the sheets

please send me funny skeets to set to music !!

All you AI haters need to accept that our feeble human intellect cannot compete with the overwhelming

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you can dislike Maroon 5 without being antisemitic.

parmigiano in the streets, stracciatella in the sheets

(In the Oval Office) Susie Wiles: She spiked the CECOT story at the last minute to demonstrate her sycophancy. Stephen Miller: How Bari, Bari Weiss of her.

(In the Oval Office) Susie Wiles: She spiked the CECOT story at the last minute to demonstrate her sycophancy. Stephen Miller: How Bari, Bari Weiss of her.

Merry Christmas from your friendly neighborhood Jew with a penchant for deconstructing beloved baroque carols. m.youtube.com/watch?v=UHN9...

I was a teenage mansplainer

Fairly certain that I wrote more prose this year than I did music, which sort of scares me. But that’s just how the manicotti oozed, capisce?? gabrielkahane.substack.com

JD Vance’s profundity is not limited to giving white people permission to not apologize for their whiteness

I wrote about a timely new book, and what it may teach us about a moment in which a freighted word has become a powerful smokescreen. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/the-bibi-w...

I wrote about Mark Mazower’s excellent new book, ‘On Antisemitism: A Word in History,’ and what it might teach us about this moment. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/the-bibi-w...

I wrote about Mark Mazower’s timely new book and what it might have to teach us about this moment in which a freighted term has become a powerful smokescreen. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/the-bibi-w...

I find Bari Weiss reprehensible in just about every way. Still, there is irony (or lack of self-awareness?) in dismissing a call for cross-cultural dialogue as "the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on" within a platform that is not exactly known for its ideological diversity.

radiatore with pork sugo for the fourth night of chanukah; I will not be taking questions at this time

This is your semi-annual reminder that one does not “reach a crescendo.” One reaches a climax, an apotheosis, a blaring fortissimo *by way of* a crescendo. Thank you for attending my TED talk.

In the year I quit streaming, I fell in love with a lot of new music… with mentions of Ambrose Akinmusire, Wednesday, billy woods, Qasim Naqvi, Jason Moran, Linda May Han Oh, hand habits, Chris Thile, Carla Kihlstedt, Deerhoof, Joshua Burnside, and more… gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/eleven-alb...

“The album opens with a collage of found sounds: first, the whir of a film projector, then a series of eerie pitch sweeps, and finally a celesta whose plodding major chords are downright chilling—the rictus grin of a clown who’s about to murder you.” gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/eleven-alb...

I wrote about giving up streaming, a renaissance in my listening habits, and the albums that stuck with me this year.