A towering delight—all floors.

On a new album, the experimental vocal group Roomful of Teeth and songwriter Gabriel Kahane take up residence in a multidimensional hotel with a time-traveling elevator and a quirky clientele. n.pr/4sbVEWw

If you listen to the first 30 seconds of this you'll be in for the whole thing. Many are its delights, do yourself a favor

I'm on my, uh, fourth listen this morning.

It's out. Have a listen. gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com/album/elevat...

we pay respects, dry our eyes and apply our make-up to face the night, hey driver, drive back down to christopher, dreams of a future where all of the boys we’ve lost come back to life… elevator songs is out on friday, 4/3 m.youtube.com/watch?v=fRAs...

Something is off about this hotel… gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com/album/elevat...

They’re here. gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com

Seven-year-old just now: “Toothpaste explosion… problematic.”

I have nothing to add about the horror unfolding in the Middle East that hasn’t already been said. But I did write a song about the psychic cost of war that was released last week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_X...

if you feel like listening to a very sad song, well, I warned you gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com/album/elevat...

oh, timothée…

It’s Bandcamp Friday, which makes it a good time to re-up some albums I loved from last year. They’re no less fabulous for having been released in 2025. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/eleven-alb...

If you’ve never heard Mingjia Chen sing before, I humbly suggest this tune — the second single from ‘Elevator Songs,’ out today — as a solid entry point. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_X...

Thank you!!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_X...

I wrote very briefly about “Not Even the Dead,” the second single from ‘Elevator Songs,’ and its regrettable relevance to the situation overseas.

I do actually think there is a serious imbalance on this app. A lot of politics and not enough culture. Some of that has to do with the fact that Black Twitter mostly went to Threads.

Like culture posts on this app simply don’t get the engagement and I think it’s because people feel it’s frivolous and actually it’s the thing we are fighting for, the freedom to make culture and cultural works

highbrow: gesualdo middlebrow: couperin lowbrow: j.s. bach

The James Talarico / Jasmine Crockett primary is an interesting litmus test w/r/t elite capture of identity politics. Good time for everyone to go back to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s book…

Nothing stimulates my gag reflex like the phrase "AI-crafted copy"

One thing that was not on my 2026 bingo card was crying while coaching a string quartet. So why did it happen? gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/big-feelings

Just realized that Dry January should be followed by Fry February, during which your diet will be strictly limited to mozzarella sticks, falafel, and the *occasional* calamari (only on leap years)

I wrote about crying during a string quartet coaching. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/big-feelings

Timeline cleanse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzJy...

ICYMI, Roomful of Teeth & I have made an album called 'Elevator Songs.' It's set in an interdimensional hotel populated by travel influencer Jungian pop psychologist podcasters, indie rock stars dodging bombings in militarized California, hot tub enthusiasts, & more. gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com

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