Rodrigo Brancatelli

For one month this summer, a Senegalese guy in Minneapolis, a Moroccan family in the Bronx, and a third-generation Mexican in Dallas will all have the same reason to be loud in public. America built this. America is also doing everything it can to make sure it doesn’t happen. The 2026 FIFA World Cup arrives in June across 16 cities in three countries, 48 nations competing, 104 matches over 39 days. The largest version of the largest sporting event in human history.

“Books, records, films… These things matter. Call me shallow, it’s the fucking truth.” I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched High Fidelity, that movie about a record store owner obsessively revisiting his top five breakups to figure out what went wrong, but here I am again, wishing I had a record store just like Championship Vinyl. Rob Gordon is basically in my top five fictional assholes that I relate to a bit too much.

Hi there, welcome to Found Object! Before I dive into the strange contradictions of music in 2026, here are a few found objects that completely took over my week.