New music from Ken Carson, Bassvictim; Fashion Week recaps; job opportunities; and more
Welcome Digest [7.03.26]
This Week’s Curated Headlines
The Roundups
Music
New Releases:
Ken Carson — XPERIMENT
daine + Bassvictim — “PQC - Bassvictim Edit”
Rocket Reese + Lil Texas — “MISS MY CHOPPA V2”
Dragnutz — “#FreeJoBoof”
Sophia Stel — “Molly In The Club”
Marjorie-W.C Sinclair + dupontpavillion — “Independence Day”
Joey Cash — poser
b7lanket — “boys girls horses and dogs”
Artworld
Henri Rousseau, A Painter’s Ambition, at Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris through July 20
Studio Hanniball’s Sick Days at Studio Hanniball in Berlin through June 6
John Chamberlain’s Land Before Time: Three Dinosaurs and a Gondola at Amanita in New York through August 9
Camille Henrot’s Paper Planes at Copenhagen Contemporary in Copenhagen through December 31
Fashion
More favorite FW collections: Dries Van Norton, Marc Jacobs, 1199, Soshiotsuki, and Celine
Pieter Mulier has his first day at Versace
Y-3 unveiled a diverse footwear collection in collaboration with Number (N)ine
Sabyasachi will return to NYFW this year after 20 year absence
Acne Paper presents Autoportrait, a book which has been released alongside a newsstand on the Seine featuring a curated selection of objects and books that have inspired Acne Studios over the past thirty years.
Celine debuts its first-ever footwear collaboration on a low-profile, scuffed Reebok sneaker.
Imran Potato previews new Vans Half Calb collabs in purple and red colorways
Bazo 1199’s Homework / Graduation debut runway featured appearances from Che, Tezzus, Effie, Pz’, Diamond, Bernie Ross, Jack Zebra, Sk8star, Rokonthetrack, and Chalkywong.
IFM Paris students released their graduate collections
Junya Watanabe’s SS27 featured a collaboration with Hidden NY spanning across footwear and apparel
Adidas Stan Smiths previewed various futuristic upcoming designs for new footwear ranging from reinterpretations of ballet flats, square toed sneakers, and five finger/tabi hybrids
Clarks Originals previewed footwear for their Spring Summer 27 Collection
Products
Glock stress toys by mystomachhurts
ERL’s “The Island” collection
Sofia Testino’s work wedges in a variety of colors
New bags by Nina B
Claire Zurkowski’s stainless steel fragrance sample holder keychain
Hand carved 925 silver locket rings by @middaia
HELIOT EMIL’s brutalist coffee machine in collaboration with La Marzocco
PROLETA RE ART’s 1/1 Wallabees in collaboration with Clark Originals
Various pieces by @mxxkarade
SS1999 Chanel ‘Watch Link’ Silver CC Interlock Logo Metal Belt being sold by Alex Maxamenko
Cap hoodie by Tommy Jack Dover Dier
Screen heels prototype by Margot Heyer
Accessories from Vetement SS27
This Week’s Headlines
Soulja Boy wants to make his own music awards show
Soulja Boy took to Twitter to say that he’s considering creating his own music awards show to honor artists he believes have been consistently ignored by institutions like the BET Awards and the Grammys, citing NBA YoungBoy, Chief Keef, and Kodak Black as examples. The idea raises a broader question about whether legacy award shows have kept pace with rap’s evolving landscape, where some of the genre’s most influential artists rarely receive traditional industry recognition.
There were more new dogs purchased than humans born in San Francisco last year
San Francisco issued 7,123 first-time dog licenses in 2025, surpassing the roughly 6,970 babies born that year. It’s a striking symbol of California’s record-low birth rates, with researchers pointing to long-term demographic shifts including later marriage and declining fertility across the state.
This week in bad paintings
This week delivered two truly abysmal paintings:
Adrian Brody strikes again with another cheap, pop art faux-Warhol canvas, this time unveiled in the comically hellish setting of the Times Square Raising Cane’s.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump shared a bizarre painting of “America’s history” that, surprisingly, isn’t AI-generated and is almost impossible to unpack. In it, George Washington sits beside a young boy and a Tesla robot watching fireworks, while a spaceship launches toward Mars above monuments and icons including the Statue of Liberty, Betsy Ross, and Abraham Lincoln. The work is by Ray Simon, who describes himself as “the artist who painted America”.
Kalshi traders are running bot streaming scams on Spotify
Malcolm Todd’s “Earrings” briefly surged to No. 1 on Spotify’s global chart, drawing scrutiny after Kalshi market participants reportedly bet on its chart trajectory. Investigators later found signs of inauthentic activity, leading Spotify to remove over half a million streams from the track. The case has raised a recurring anxiety that prediction markets are incentivizing attempts to game streaming metrics case for profit. Spotify has not linked the artist to any wrongdoing, and the song has since dropped in rank.
Hollywood found another horror franchise on YouTube
As we reported last week, studios are increasingly turning to viral online horror for feature film development, with Warner Bros. acquiring the rights to Siren Head, a meme-born creature horror project being written by Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield. In a parallel move, The Mandela Catalogue, a YouTube analog horror series, is also being adapted into a film with creator Alex Kister set to direct and Steven Spielberg attached as producer.
Nvdia’s CEO Jensen Huang’s signature leather jacket is going up for auction
Sotheby’s is offering Jensen Huang’s signature black Tom Ford leather jacket, with estimates of $40,000 to $60,000. The piece has been worn at nearly every major Nvidia product unveiling. Given Nvidia’s central role in the AI boom, the jacket is being framed as a cultural artifact from a defining moment in tech history.
Headline curation and words by Mikail Haroon (@mvkail)
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