Paint by Numbers

Wanna produce a pop hit? There’s an app for that. Instagram and TikTok are full of musicians and producers who can show you how to make anything. Sure, there are some guitarists or keyboardists who create tutorials on how to play a certain song or riff. Even some who teach music theory as it relates to specific instruments. Its decent content, its educational, and music education is sorely missed in most schools. But there is…

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On Bhaangers

Middle Class Mentality Our parents didn’t come to the US to create new cuyltural forms. They came so that we could get educated, become doctors, engineers, middle managers and maybe get it all lined up and become uniquely rich. No judgement: can’t blame people for wanting to not reproduce poverty.  The way they mostly got on was to create the culture from “home” here in the new world. The language, the cuisine, the religion, the…

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