ARTICLES BY westonc

Music for the Fucked Present

Weston Cutter

03.06.17

A deep delve into the vital immediacy and resilient pulse of Run The Jewels’ brand new third, and possibly best, album.

Seen Through To: Radiohead’s “True Love Waits”

Weston Cutter

05.19.16

Radiohead’s “True Love Waits” is a twenty year-old ballad that just got dressed up in radically new clothes for its first studio version, which Weston Cutter argues is a big deal.

How Minnesotan Is It, or: What Comes After Data

Weston Cutter

08.10.15

Weston Cutter argues the 2015 Minnesota Twins are beyond the usual Sabermetric measurements.

The Dodos vs. Crunge

Weston Cutter

03.05.15

Weston Cutter reviews the new Dodos album, Individ, while considering what made the band’s breakthrough, Visiter, so strange and glorious and good.

Trying to Generate Heat: an interview with David Roderick

Weston Cutter

01.22.15

David Roderick answers some questions about his new book, The Americans.

Want as Oblivion: A Review of Merritt Tierce’s Love Me Back

Weston Cutter

11.06.14

Weston Cutter reviews Merritt Tierce’s tough and moving debut novel, Love Me Back.

WTF: An Interview with David Shafer, future USPS Novelist Laureate

Weston Cutter

09.23.14

Weston Cutter interviews David Shafer, author of this summer’s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

What Does Art Owe Us?

Weston Cutter

07.02.14

A review of Blake J. Harris’s Console Wars, a letdown of a book about the ‘generation-defining’ battle between Sega and Nintendo.

Various Violences, Other Bodies: A Review of Kevin Simmonds’s Bend To It

Weston Cutter

05.22.14

Weston Cutter reviews Kevin Simmonds’s Bend To It, a collection of poetry that is, among other things, trying to find and offer indivisible moments of music.

Making the Music Line Up Properly

Weston Cutter

03.24.14

Weston Cutter talks with Ryan Elder, the composer for the Adult Swim show “Rick and Morty,” about scoring visuals.