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Mark Hazelwood @palliativescot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The short song "Little Love" by @gabrielkahane.bsky.social is a beautiful vision of aging and dying, suffused with love and hope. 🥹 youtu.be/G9F4XAZN78k?...

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Little Love

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I wrote about my kids’ imaginary restaurant, and what it has taught me about the value of play in our lives as artists. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/garden-noo...

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Garden Noodles

Life lessons from the junior proprietors of an imaginary restaurant

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Ahoy! Single tickets are now on sale for the Carnegie Hall premiere of 'Every love song is a protest' (2/9), as well as warm-up previews at Groton Hill Music Center (2/5) and The Local in Saugerties (2/6), plus Duke Arts @ Motorco (2/18). Get involved! gabrielkahane.com/where.html

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GABRIEL KAHANE

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I’m Gabriel Kahane, and I approve this message.

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I’m turning 45 in a couple weeks and decided to play a little show. There will be special guests. A dozen-and-a-half tickets remain. Get involved, Portland! strumpdx.com/gabriel-kaha...

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 26/06/2026

Composer @gabrielkahane.bsky.social and a cappella group Roomful Of Teeth have shared a new edit of "Put It In My Valise" from 'Elevator Songs,' their concept album about an interdimensional hotel. It's a cheeky highlight from one of the best, most ambitious albums of the year:

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Gabriel Kahane & Roomful Of Teeth's Elevator Songs Is A Stirring Visit To An Interdimensional Hotel

Few albums this year have made a stronger impression on me than Elevator Songs, a collaboration between the composer and singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane and the a cappella group Roomful Of Teeth. It’...

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

song of summer? song for those who are perennially capsule wardrobed? who haunt r/onebag? whose tushy is literally freezing bc they would rather suffer than wear a dowdy sweatshirt on that over-air-conditioned redeye en route to fashion week in milan? gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com/track/put-it...

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Foods I've written songs about: Hot Dogs Potatoes (Dirty) Horchata Pasta Breakfast Sandwiches Arby's Protein Bowls (Waffle House) Cold Brew (also Waffle House) Salad Pizza Peanuts (Mr. Peanut) Sandwich Relish (super spicy)

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Security? Security? There’s a disturbance in aisle two… Music: me Text: Daniel Falatko

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

calling it now: it’s gonna be a merguez summer. or possibly blood sausage.

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Anne Carson once memorably described her process to me as “form and content groping each in the dark.” But what does that actually mean? gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/honest-son...

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Is Phoebe Bridgers’ phone policy ableist? Have you noticed how bland fruit and vegetable taste recently? music: me text: Inigo Laguda

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Pluribus except it's about everyone you know over the age of 50 getting hacked after opening that DEAR FRIENDS & FAMILY [INVITATION] email hoax

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

As the descendant of Holocaust survivors, I did not have "being accused of trafficking in antisemitic tropes" on my 2026 bingo card. Anyway, here's an essay I wrote about Mark Mazower's excellent book, 'Antisemitism: A Word in History." gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/the-bibi-w...

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The Bibi Who Cried Wolf

how a freighted word became a powerful smokescreen

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I’m working on a new orchestral song cycle, which means that I’m spending a lot of time procrastinating, which means that I wrote an essay about the ways in which I procrastinate when I’m supposed to be writing music. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/form-and-c...

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form and content, groping each other in the dark

creative toil as dissent in the age of AI

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"The associative state does not punch a time card. It shows up when it wants to, and you have to be there when it crosses the threshold of your dreamworld office." gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/form-and-c...

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form and content, groping each other in the dark

creative toil as dissent in the age of AI

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Very much looking forward to this conversation with the great @natechinen.bsky.social next week. Be there or be snapping on the 1 and the 3. gabrielkahane.substack.com

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

RIP Waffle House, RIP USA. 🧇🇺🇸🪦 text by Prester John Andrews music by me

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Gandhi teaches us to reject violence in word, thought, and deed. What is the world we’re trying to create in which we indulge in ad hominem, lookist attacks against the architect of the cruelest domestic policy since Jim Crow? Oughtn’t confronting him on the merits be enough?

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Thanks to Hallie Bateman for making these nifty badges. As AI slop becomes increasingly prevalent, you can rest assured that I would sooner endure daily root canals than allow an LLM within a mile of my newsletter. gabrielkahane.substack.com

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Unquestionably my finest performance of Tchaikovsky 5.

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

London! Hope to see you later this year. gabrielkahane.com/where.html

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thinking of doing a rewrite of Naomi Klein’s ‘Doppelgänger’ except it’s about me and Noah Kahan.

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“What prevents consumers from paying musicians for their labor is not the capture of the industry by dirty money, but rather, sheer entitlement: that is, the belief that frictionless access to all music at all times is a right.” gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/streaming-...

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streaming & crying: a polemic

You cannot claim to be pro-labor and stream music

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Super proud of my father, Jeffrey Kahane, for going absolute beast mode in starting his own orchestra at the age of sixty-nine. First season to include Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Tessa Lark, & Jeneba Kaneh-Mason; 1/2

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

“I have a number of friends who expend a great deal of emotional energy being pissed off at Taylor Swift and the people who love her. But as I age, I just don’t have the energy to get exercised about the monoculture. 1/2

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

‘Elevator Songs’ came out six weeks ago. Big thanks to everyone who’s been listening & turning up to the gigs. If you’ve not yet entered our strange interdimensional hotel full of hooks, growls, and sighs, now’s as good a time as any. gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com/album/elevat...

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Elevator Songs, by Gabriel Kahane, Roomful of Teeth

11 track album

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I wrote a brief response to the mishegoss surrounding the NYT Greatest Living Songwriters list, and why I think most of the griping about it misses the larger problem with the critical landscape. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/what-we-ta...

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what we talk about when we talk about pop music criticism

a brief response to the ny times' greatest living american songwriters list

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

My grandmother’s escape from Nazi Germany has long been a thread in my work as a musician. But Israel’s weaponization of Jewish trauma—to justify the extermination of the Palestinian people—has led me to reconsider much of that creative labor. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/street-sce...

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street scene in ludwigshafen

on the moral burden of memory

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It's a gentle but persistent sag on my cognitive load as well!

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

In an essay about singing in an opera in Germany as an American kid—accompanied by my grandmother who'd fled in 1939—I ask what is to be done with Jewish memory & trauma in light of Israel’s ongoing effort to exterminate the Palestinian people. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/street-sce...

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street scene in ludwigshafen

on the moral burden of memory

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I wrote about singing in a Kurt Weill opera as a child, my grandmother’s diaries, and the quandary of memory and its misuse. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/street-sce...

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street scene in ludwigshafen

on the moral burden of memory

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I’m turning 45 in a couple months and decided that I wanted to play a show for my birthday here in Portland. There will be special guests and quite possibly a cake. Tiny room; get involved. strumpdx.com/gabriel-kaha...

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I could use an influx of new tunes... what are folks' favorite records of 2026 to date?

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Rejoice, for it is Bandcamp Friday! Elevator Songs is four weeks old today, and we’ve been thrilled by the response. Now is a great time to get involved in what NPR is calling “‘The White Lotus’ meets ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’”… gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com/album/elevat...

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Elevator Songs, by Gabriel Kahane, Roomful of Teeth

11 track album

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

wild to me that a list of the best living songwriters doesn't include sufjan stevens

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Nonesuch Records @nonesuch.com · 27/04/2026

The 2026 BBC Proms schedule has been announced, with music by and from John Adams, Thomas Adès, Ambrose Akinmusire, @gabrielkahane.bsky.social, @stevereich.bsky.social, and Caroline Shaw. The series takes place over eight weeks this summer. Every Prom will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds.

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Good people of Chicago! Our show on Friday is sold out, but we've added a second one on Thursday. Students can use code 'SCHOOL' for $20 tix. Would love to see you there!! wl.eventim.us/event/gabrie...

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Incredibly special afternoon in NYC performing Elevator Songs with Roomful of Teeth. Tour continues this week with stops in Nashville, Chicago, and Los Angeles. We’d love to see you there. gabrielkahane.com/where.html%E...

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Doyle Armbrust @doylearmbrust.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Fantastic news for Chicago…but I’m only in if Aerosmith’s “Love in an Elevator” is the encore

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Folks! Elevator Songs tour begins tonight w/ a nearly sold-out show in Burlington, VT. NPR calls the album "The White Lotus meets Everything Everywhere All At Once," and I won't argue! Get involved & please note that we've added a second gig in Chicago on April 23: gabrielkahane.com/where.html

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Thank you so much!!! ❤️❤️❤️

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I wrote about two things I love: cooking, and writing chamber music—and what they have in common. gabrielkahane.substack.com/p/how-cookin...

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How cooking is like chamber music

(and why I love both)

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theotherbill.bsky.social @theotherbill.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A towering delight—all floors.

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NPR @npr.org · 03/04/2026

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

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Going up! 'Elevator Songs' is a high-concept, emotionally turbulent ride

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.

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