I’m Armaan Tagore, a Bengali-American multi-disciplinary artist and musician who grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens (New York City). I’m a strong proponent of Third World Solidarity movements that seek to minimize Western exploitation of developing nations.I want to do my part by developing free educational resources. If you’re here, maybe you can be a part of that process with me.
Making Music as Armaan Tagore
In 2026, I decided that I’d try to be more open. Community building takes a level of trust that only comes from the effort of humanizing yourself.
I make music because I love it, and I share it because it’s a glimpse into who I am and my understanding of the world. There’s a lot of richness to the human experience that helps contextualize class struggle.
I believe that compassion should be at the center of everything we do. Otherwise, we’d be nothing more than robots and suffering wouldn’t actually matter; we have the capacity and the instinct to take care of our loved ones, to empathize, and to make life better for future generations. There’s a lot of beauty and complexity to this, and good art that tries to reckon with it all.
Making Music as Tigerland
Tigerland is a name under which I make and release more overtly political dance-punk music. Some of my biggest stylistic influences include LCD Sound System, Gorillaz, Daft Punk, Tyler, The Creator, Vince Staples, Bjork, and Blood Orange.
In 2024, I released an album titled I’ll Be Gone, You’ll Be Gone, inspired by the 2008 Financial Crisis and the 2003 “War on Terror.” The title is a reference to a dog whistle used by bankers in email exchanges when they agreed to defraud the American public and topple the economy.
Writing & Publishing
I’m deeply interested in the role technology plays in dissemination of information and the potential it has to help humans come together and work towards a better world. My work emphasizes the way digital mediums like video, image, and text can combine aesthetics with functionality to optimize the efficacy of education.
I am Creative Director of The New Absurdist, an online publication I co-founded based on Carol Hanisch’s theory of “The Personal as Political.” The primary goal of our publication is to highlight writing pieces that demonstrate how lived experiences can help us better understand the causes of and solutions to various social issues. The publication also emphasizes intersectionality and working class solidarity.
I also document and record observations I’ve made about learning in my own endeavors. These observations span a wide range of topics like: languages, coding, history, biology, stenography, music theory, guitar, and piano.
Web Projects
Theory Tools is an online resource designed to help musicians practice and master music theory fundamentals (such as scale degrees, chord voicings, and reading notation).
Antcap.io is a collection of social web games based on politics, economics, and social collaboration. People can have fun as they gain insight into the systems that shape how society functions.
Edutro Resources is a site I created to help me (and other educators) teach. The site contains question banks, worksheet generators, readings, and other useful teaching tools.