POP MUSIC: Let's talk about it.

NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Beach Bunny, Jack White, Pool Kids, and more.

BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Ty Segall, The Sadies, Thor Harris, and more.

THE NATIONAL debuted "Space Invader (Threaded Gold)" at the Newport Folk Festival.

THE TOP 22 ALBUMS of 2022 (So Far), according to Bill's Indie Basement.

THE GREATEST DANCE SONGS, according to Rolling Stone.

MILES HENDERSON,  a self-taught bassist who performed and recorded in the 1960s and '70s with Stevie Wonder and Miles Davis, then remade himself as a soulful balladeer and songwriter, died on Tuesday at his home in Dallas, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta. He was 71.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at TLC's last chart-topper, the alterna-pop "Unpretty."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Jordan Peele's Nope tops the chart with 44MM, but the CinemaScore and PostTrak raise quesions about legs.  Thor: Love and Thunder places with 21.2MM on a 54 percent drop (demonstrating the issueof legs).  Minions: Rise of Gru shows with 16.8MM on a 37 percent drop (showing the power of legs).

THE MCU, through 2025.

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER has a teaser trailer online.

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 has a Comic-Con trailer online.

SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS has a trailer online.

BLACK ADAM has a Comic-Con trailer.

LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER has a Comic-Con trailer.

I AM GROOT has a trailer online.

SHE-HULK has a second trailer online.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE has a trailer online.

THE SANDMAN has a trailer online.

ANGELINA JOLIE won a legal battle against ex-husband Brad Pitt in their highly emotional war over the Chateau Miraval winery, where they got married in 2014.

PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN's Top Performances, according to Variety.

RUTH BUZZI is "bedridden and incapacitated" after suffering a series of strokes.

TAUREAN BLAQUE, beloved for his role of Detective Neal Washington on “Hill Street Blues,” has died. He was 82 years old.

BOB RAFELSON, co-creator of The Monkees, and an iconoclastic director and producer who was a central figure of the New Hollywood movement that jump-started American cinema in the wake of the 1960s counterculture upheavals, died on Saturday at his home in Aspen, Colo. He was 89.

A CLEVER DOGGO and a KIND DOGGO.

FREYA THE WALRUS is sinking boats while sunbathing.

CREATE your own rules.