Let this be a lesson — in Beacon Hills, “dead” is a relative term.

On tonight’s “Teen Wolf” Season 4 premiere, Scott, Kira, Stiles, Lydia and Malia traveled south of the border to reclaim a kidnapped Derek. They’d gotten word that a crew of Mexican werewolf hunters known as The Calaveras had abducted him, but when they arrived at the compound with $50,000 in bail money, they learned the group didn’t have him. And, worse, the deadly Kate Argent had recently escaped from their grip.

After helping Scott realize that Kate was still alive by administering memory-triggering torture, The Cavaleras’ head honcho Araya explained that when her crew of hunters got word that Kate’s throat had been slashed by Peter Hale, they snatched her body away from its casket and imprisoned her. The reason: They feared that if Kate hadn’t been killed, she would eventually “turn.” Well, their suspicions were valid, and after fully healing, Kate, who’d transformed into a werejaguar, murdered six Calaveras hunters and stole away to a nearby ghost town known as “La Iglesia.” The Calaveras’ mercenary Braeden told Scott’s pack that no one who’d ever approached Kate’s hideout had survived, but the teens went after it — and Derek — all the same.

When Scott’s pack arrived at the church which Derek and Kate were rumored to be hidden beneath, they found the former, who’d been Benjamin Button’ed, but not the latter. It’s not clear ...

YouTube stars Mahogany “Lox” Gordy and Brandon Skeie have joined forces, and judging from their brand-new covers of Ariana Grande’s “Problem” and Fifth Harmony’s “Better Together,” they’re killing the game.

For “Problem,” the two tag-team the lyrics, trading off lines in beautiful harmony — all in the company of an oversized teddy bear. The simple video keeps all the focus on Skeie’s impressive vocal range and Lox’s total ownership over Iggy Azalea’s rap solo.

Meanwhile, “Better Together” — which they released on Monday (June 23) — takes on more of a story approach, beginning with Skeie pouring his heart out to an impassive Lox. Halfway through, the pair certainly sell the case that they are better together.

So what brought these two together? Skeie, a 21 year-old independent singer/songwriter from Los Angeles, tells MTV the he met Lox — the granddaughter of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy and sister to LMFAO bandmember Sky Blu — at a Janoskians party last year.

“I saw her big, curly red hair and invited her to my birthday party, and we started hanging out avidly after that,” he said.

He recently released his debut EP 3Words, and promises fans they can look forward to even more Lox collaborations coming soon.

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In concert, Liars‘ “Pro Anti Anti” is one of the most face-melting off their rather volatile Mess. So, if you think about it, their just-released video for the dissonant dance track only makes sense — as frontman Angus Andrew and Aaron Hemphill’s faces literally melt.

The guys — noticeably without longtime Julian Gross, who is taking a break from Liar’s current tour because of a back injury — get statues made of their faces, display them in a museum, and watch as they melt into beautiful, colorful piles of mess. It all looks very similar to the album’s chaotic artwork, which — when Liars sat down with MTV News earlier this year — they said more reflects their more “vibrant and visual” musical approach.

“You focus on something that is a clutter and it stands outside of the environment it’s within and you’re forced to somehow make sense of it,” Hemphill said. “You focus all your time and energy… focusing on this mess of strands entertangled and really trying to make sense of it until it’s so focused that how can it be deemed haphazard.”

Emily Blake

By Maurice Bobb

Jhené Aiko is on a roll. After shutting down Coachella with her sultry performance back in April, the burgeoning songstress is back with a taste of things to come with her first single, “To Love and Die,” from her upcoming full-length debut, Souled Out.

Hours after the L.A. songbird released a snippet of the song, which features Cocaine 80s, the full track has surfaced online. DJ Pup Dawg leaked the rest of the song, which features James Fauntleroy’s vocals, Monday evening with the opening tagline, “How does he get ‘em?”

Aiko’s command of her emotions and her rhythmic swag is apparent on the No I.D.-produced track, as she raps the lyrics, “which side, this side, you should switch sides, I’m not acting like a bitch side/ By the way, you need to switch sides right away.”

Hopefully, fans will get the chance to hear the new song live when she performs at the 2014 BET Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.

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While The Strokes performing at Governors Ball was exciting and magical and all that other good stuff, am I the only one who’s sort of more interested in what lead singer Julian Casblancas is up to unfettered by the expectations of his day job? His 2009 album Phrazes For The Young was woefully underrated, even though a lot of it was up there with some of the best songs he’s ever written, so the news today that there’s a new album and tour in the near future is big.

The album Tyranny, credited to Julian Casablancas + the Voidz, will be released on his own Cult Records on September 23, the band announced on Monday (June 23).

“It’s a collection of amazing individuals I’ve encountered over the last four and half years,” Casablancas explained of his new band in the teaser video below. It shows footage of them on tour throughout the world, and features snippets of some of the new music.

“Tyranny has come in many forms throughout history,” Casablancas explained of the title in a press release. “Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).”

OK, but can I dance to it?

Julian Casablancas + The Voidz kick off a U.S. ...

Kristen Bell has another little marshmallow baking in the oven.

According to ET Online, the 33-year-old “Veronica Mars” star is expecting her second child with 39-year-old husband Dax Shepard.

The two have one child together, 15-month-old daughter Lincoln Bell Shepard. A rep for the couple said in a statement to ET that the couple is “beyond excited” to welcome a second child into their family.

The two have been together since late 2007 and were married back in October. While they were engaged back in 2009, Dax proposed again on June 26 of last year in celebration of the defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act.

A rep for the couple had not responded to MTV News’ request for comment by press time.

Emily Blake

Angie Martinez shocked the hip-hop world when she announced last week that she was leaving Hot 97, where she had become “The Voice of New York” during her two decades at the New York radio station.

The public’s collective awe was only intensified when it was revealed, the following day, that she was making the move to her former employer’s crosstown rival, Power 105. Martinez is now explaining the motivations behind the shift.

“I tried to really look at what’s best for my career, what’s best for my life, what’s best for my family, for me,” she told Billboard. “I had to take my emotion out of it. It was a decision that I felt was right for me.

“It just got to the point where I wanted to assess myself and my career and where my future was going,” she added, in an interview with the New York Post. “It’s what I wanted. It just got to the point where I wanted to be on in different markets — I want to grow and be challenged in new ways.”

Her new gig will bring her to airwaves both in the Tri-State area, where she’ll have an afternoon show on Power, as well as 103.5 The Beat in Miami.

“It’s not going to be the same show — I’ll do a show just for Miami and a show just for New York,” she said. “I’ll mostly be based in New York, but I’ll travel ...

Three Al-Jazeera journalists were convicted in Egypt on Monday (June 23) of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood, sparking outrage and a call for their freedom among fellow journalists and activists.

The Muslim Brotherhood, a religious and political group, is banned in Egypt and has been labeled a terrorist organization by the country.

Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed had been in prison since December, when they were charged for conspiring with the Brotherhood and endangering national security. According to CNN, Greste and Fahmy were sentenced on Monday to seven years behind bars while Mohamed was sentenced to 10.

According to NPR, six more Al-Jazeera journalists were sentenced in absentia to 10-year terms.

The White House was quick to condemn the convictions, which were apparently delivered without any evidence that supported the allegations.

“Perhaps most disturbing is that this verdict comes as part of a succession of prosecutions and verdicts that are fundamentally incompatible with the basic precepts of human rights and democratic governance. These include the prosecution of peaceful protesters and critics of the government, and a series of summary death sentences in trials that fail to achieve even a semblance of due process,” press secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement on Monday. “I don’t think it has anything to do with justice.”

According to Al Jazeera English Managing Director Al Anstey, there were “numerous irregularities” in the case and a “lack of evidence to stand up the ill-conceived allegations.”

“There is only one sensible outcome now,” Anstey said in a statement on ...

Skilled guidance counselors are compassionate, patient and, evidently, in short supply around Palos Hills.

There’s no doubt that Valerie Marks has good intentions. But from the moment she and Jenna Hamilton met, it was clear that Palos Hills High School’s moral authority was a few Cheez Doodles short of a party mix. Since Jenna’s sophomore year, Val has encouraged tramp stamps, told one of her favorite pupils to “go f**k [herself]” and condoned cyber-stalking. And three years later, she’s still the same. That’s our gal!

Val is now a PHHS staple, but is she really in a position to dole out advice? Below are five reasons (culled from Season 4 alone) she should consider some guidance of her own before acting as Buddha to others. There’s no shame in therapy, V!

She laughed at a student’s college dreams.
Jenna desperately needed support after the class ranks were released and she found herself toward the bottom of the list. Instead, her pain was literally laughed off by Val, who told her pigs would fly sooner than a college would admit J-Town. Tough love x10.

She modeled herself after the “sophomore sluts.“
We applaud Val for her hard stance against slut-shaming, but her support seemed a bit excessive when she, herself, copied the clique’s look. A neon-orange hair extension indicating a talent for oral sex probably won’t earn her the respect of the superintendent…

She gave Sadie Saxton authority over another human being.
The icy Sadie warmed up a ...

So maybe there was something to Simon Pegg’s tweets from last month. That’s when J.J. Abrams’ Scotty posted a photo of himself pulling into Harrison Ford’s parking spot, setting off speculation that he was visiting the Pinewood Studios set of “Star Wars: Episode VII.”

Now, an unverified Twitter account seemingly belong to Anthony Daniels, the actor who plays C-3PO, shares that Pegg has been to the set and that they’ve had a lovely chat.

He’s referring, of course, to this College Humor sketch Pegg did with his Cornetto compatriot, Nick Frost.

Is Pegg just swinging by the set to see what’s going on or are the fanboy theorists onto something? We’ll probably find out on December 18, 2015, when “Star Wars: Episode VII” opens in theaters.

Kevin P. Sullivan