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SHE WANTS YOU TO 'COME BOOGIE' WITH HER Get ready, Animals: Kesha’s widely hailed comeback is blazing on with the announcement of her Rainbow Tour. The six-week, 21-date trek marks Kesha’s first solo tour in four years, since 2013’s Warrior Tour. This one’s named after her forthcoming album, Rainbow, which arrives on August 11 and features the previously released singles “praying,” “Woman,” and “Learn to let go.” The project is Kesha’s first full-length album in five years, and marks her grand return to music after being involved in an ongoing legal battle with Dr. Luke. Truly, she is a rainbow breaking through the clouds after one hell of a storm.

WATCH YOUR BACK, DAENERYS Apple Music took a page out of James Coden's notebook for  Carpool Karaoke: The Series , a new weekly show based off  The Late Late Show 's famous segment. The spin-off, however, takes things one step farther than the original. Corden typically hitched rides with musical artists, but Apple Music's version includes a wider variety of celebrities. For example, take Game of Thrones,a stars Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams . The show's new trailer gives us a taste of their upcoming episode. Around 25 seconds into the clip, it appears they decided to make a pit stop at a bar with a mechanical bull. But because there are no bulls in Westeros, they dressed it up like a dragon. This is the Stark family reunion we've been waiting six seasons for!

WHEN YOU PLAY ON LATE-NIGHT TELEVISION, YOU GET THIS KIND OF TREATMENT Jack Antonoff is having a very good year. As a trusted co-writer of Lorde on her mesmerizing new album,  Melodrama , he is partially responsible for crafting your favorite summer jams, including "Green Light" and "Supercut." He's also one of the (many) stars of Charlie XCX's pop culture defining new music video for "Boys," where he does a killed Paul Ryans Impression  by curling some dumbbells in a backwards cap. That alone may be enough for your average fellow, but Antonoff is not that. He also released an album with his own musical project Bleachers in June called  Gone Now , loaded with some absolute bangers. One of those, "Don't Take The Money ," features Lorde on background vocals, because if you're already hanging out with Lorde, why wouldn't you ask her to lend some atmosphere to your single?

GLOBAL CITIZEN FESTIVAL REVEALS ITS STAR-STUDDED LINEUP Music festivals aren't just for the summer. The annual Global Citizen Festival will take over New York City's Central Park on September 23 — one day after autumn officially begins. Headliners were Announced Tuesday (August 1), and man, this is one show you don't want to miss. The Chainsmokers  will be taking the stage, and the rest of the headlining performances are equally exciting: Green Days, The Killers, The Lumineers, and — last but certainly not least — the legendary Stevie Wonder  Plus, special Guests Pharrel Williams , Big Sean Alessia Cara , and Andra Day will be attending. But wait, it gets even better! The festival is 100 percent free. Yep, you read that right. Here's how you can go. FESTIVAL REVEALS ITS STAR-STUDDED LINEUP Music festivals aren't just for the summer. The annual Global Citizen Festival will take over New York City's C...

GET DETAILS ON THE ICONIC PROGRAM'S RETURN Total Request Live  was a staple on MTV from 1998-2008 -- a daily destination for all of your music and pop culture needs. And now, the unforgettable New York-based program is returning. The  TRL  franchise will debut on Monday, October 2. The daily live show will air from the network’s iconic Times Square studio and become the prime destination for youth culture and a meeting point for millions of fans. “If we’re going to come back and reinvent MTV, the studio is a given,” MTV President Chris McCarthy revealed during an interview with The New YorkTimes“It is the centerpiece.” The new and improved 8,700-square-foot, multi-functional studio allows for bigger audiences, expansive sets and simultaneous productions including new digital extensions of  TRL . The program, which will initially run an hour a day (but might expand to a longer format), will feature a rotation of five rotat...

THE BARTENDER IS SUDDENLY SPORTING AN UNFORTUNATE SET OF BRUISES The premiere of Siesta keys left us with quite the cliffhanger. The episode ended with Chloe FaceTiming Alex the morning after his big birthday rager. We expected the pair of besties to dissect their favorite topic -- Alex's love triangle du jour -- but what we  didn't  expect was to see Chloe's poor face battered and bruised. Our girl really wasn't kidding about summer in Siesta: So what happened? And more importantly, is Chloe okay? Last we saw, the bartender was commiserating with her best gal pal Amanda over her crush Brandon's potentially playboy ways. But what  we  know is that Amanda was majorly breaking girl code by flirting with Brandon behind Chloe's back, something A conveniently failed to mention. More specifically, Amanda invited him to a bikini contest where she and her booty (Brandon's words, not ours) were up for judgement. Then Chloe and Amanda left the part...

THERE'S ALWAYS A PRICE TO PAY "It must be stopped." Those four words courtesy of Captain Vague (aka Halwyn the hellhound) appear to be setting the stage for the final 10 teen wolf episodes, but what "it" is exactly remains a mystery. Shortly before [spoiler alert] Miss Monroe — the school-guidance-counselor-slash-supernatural-hunter — nailed him in the head, Halwyn was a man on a mission during tonight's Season 6 summer premiere. (Guess being cooped up in a ball of hardened volcanic ash for several decades will do that to you.) While very little is known about this enigmatic escape artist who was supposedly "let out," we  do  know this: Scott and his crew released it when they opened the door to The Wild hunt, and it could bare a striking resemblance to Liam, our token Alpha-in-training . You might recall Halwyn's confusion when he held the beta in a chokehold ("No. No, it's not you.") shortly after going head-to-head with t...

'TO A CERTAIN DEGREE, WHEN YOU'RE SIGNING UP TO SOMETHING, YOU SHOULD SEE IT THROUGH' A week after Justin Bieber cancelled the remaining dates of his Purpose World Tour, his musical peers are sounding off on the abrupt move. The latest musician to comment is Louis Tomlinson, who shared his thoughts in an interview with 92.3 AMP Radio. “Obviously, you have to be in a good position mentally,” Tomlinson said, when asked about “the right thing to do” in Bieber’s position. “But I also think, to a certain degree, when you're signing up to something, you should see it through.” Bieber kicked off the Purpose World Tour way back in March 2016 and performed 154 shows before axing the remaining 15 dates last week. Tomlinson is no stranger to lengthy, grueling world tours himself, but the former One Direction singer stressed that committing to his fans is his top priority. “There's never enough that I can say or do for the fans, and I ...

Dunkirk  may be this young actor's first feature film, but the 22-year-old recent redhead has been in several professional stage productions, including a current role in Jez Butterworth's acclaimed play  The Ferryman . (For what it's worth, his movie dad, Mark Rylance, starred in Butterworth's excellent play  Jerusalem  in 2009. I saw it three times, twice in London and once in New York, and openly sobbed each time.) Tom Glynn-carley portrays Peter, the preppy blond son of Rylance's civilian captain Dawson. He spends the majority of his scenes on the Moonstone, but he does play a crucial part in the film's final act. He also looks like he belongs in a Burberry campaign. Not to mention that if they were casting the film adaptation of  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child  today, he'd be a shoo-in for Scorpius Malfoy. Oh, and he's Also adorable