Lea Michele and Another Racy Magazine Cover

You'll be seeing her singing at the Super Bowl, but you can see a lot more of Lea Michele on the current cover of Cosmo.

On the March cover of Cosmopolitan, the Glee star, 24, shows skin in a black top with a neckline plunging nearly to her belly button. And parents, whose children are fans of the Fox hit about a high school vocal club, are none to pleased with the pics.  They need to get a life.

Cosmo shot back:

"We're thrilled to feature Lea Michele on the March cover of Cosmopolitan and think she looks stunning," a rep told Fox News in a statement. "Michele is a grown woman and Cosmopolitan is a magazine is for adults."

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It's 1983 All Over Again...Culture Club Reforms

First is was Van Halen, then Duran Duran...now Culture Club?

80's pop band Culture Club is planning to reunite in 2011 to celebrate their 30th anniversary.

The BBC is saying the group is plotting a tour and new album for 2012.  This just in, hell is freezing over and the Cubs have just won the World Series.

A Culture Club reunion in 2012 would celebrate the slightly less-milestone-like 31st anniversary of the band's formation. The band came together in 1981, after Boy George stopped sitting in with Bow Wow Wow and started up his own project. From 1982 to 1984 they logged their greatest international acclaim thanks to hits like "Karma Chameleon," "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me," and a catchy tune in "Church of the Poison Mind", and by '86 the band had split following George's struggle with drug addiction and a few sales disasters. Their first unsuccessful reunion attempt came in 1989, and in 1998 they managed to pull off a tour that was anchored by a set on "VH1 Storytellers." In 2002 they performed at what was billed as a 20th anniversary show at Royal Albert Hall (the math was a bit off; it was actually their 21st birthday, but nobody seemed to mind.

The latter half of the decade proved harder on the band: Bassist Mikey Craig and drummer Jon Moss recruited a George replacement named Sam Butcher for a tour that never got off the ground, and George was arrested for imprisoning a male escort in his New York apartment and sentenced to trash duty in the city. Because he was on probation, he was prohibited from appearing on the U.K.'s "Celebrity Big Brother" (which was perhaps a more painful consequence -- publicity-wise, at least).

George is now on the promotional circuit for his eighth solo disc, "Ordinary Alien," and nothing grabs headlines like talk of an '80s band reuniting -- especially an '80s band that has sold more than 20 million albums worldwide.

All we need now is Boy George appearing on Celebrity Apprentice.  I don't put it past Donald Trump.

Robert Plant Hits the Road for a Spring Tour

The ageless Robert Plant will return to the road in April to continue to support his fine September album, “Band of Joy.”

The road band is the same collection of musicians who appeared on the album: Patty Griffin, vocals; Darrell Scott, multi-instrumentalist/vocals; Byron House, bass/vocals; Marco Giovino, drums and percussion/vocals, and co-producer Buddy Miller, guitar/vocals.

The tour will begin in April and when more dates are added, it will stretch into the Summer.

The former Led Zeppelin frontman, who lives in England is up for the title of Best British Male Solo Artist 2011.

In 2009 Plant’s collaboration with Alison Krauss won Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Country Collaboration with Vocals and Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.

Here are the announced tour dates:

April 8 - Louisville, KY - The Palace
April 9: - Chicago, IL - The Auditorium Theatre
April 11 - Milwaukee, WI - The Riverside Ballroom
[Tickets TBA]
April 12 – Minneapolis - The State Theatre
April 15 - Hollywood, FL - Hard Rock Live Arena
[Tickets TBA]
April 17 - Vancouver, BC – The Queen Elizabeth Theater
April 19 - Portland, OR - The Schnitzer
April 20: - Seattle, WA - The Paramount
[Tickets TBA]
April 22 - Berkeley, CA - The Greek
April 23 - Los Angeles, CA - The Greek
[Tickets TBA]
April 25 - Santa Barbara, CA - The Santa Barbara Bowl
[Tickets TBA]
April 27 - Denver, CO - The Fillmore
[Tickets TBA]

Seeing Plant in person is highly recommended.

Faith Hill, Pretenders to Appear on 'Crossroads'

I love CMT's Crossroads.  Crossroads pairs up two musical acts you never would imagine performing together.

Now, the Pretenders and Faith Hill are teaming up for live episode of "CMT Crossroads."

The show will take place during the NFL Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam on Feb. 5 from Grand Prairie, Texas, the night before the Super Bowl.

This will be just the second live "CMT Crossroads." The show pairs country music stars with acts from other genres. The mashup often yields interesting results.

Two of music's most successful women will be on display during the broadcast. Chrissie Hynde formed The Pretenders more than 30 years ago and the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.

Hill is a five-time Grammy-winning country singer who is familiar to football fans as the voice of NBC's Sunday Night Football. This will be her first "Crossroads" appearance.

Past episodes of Crossroads have included: Taylor Swift and Def Leppard, Sara Evans and Maroon 5, and Martina McBride and Train.



Dire Straits Censored 25 Years Later

Radio stations in Canada have been warned to censor the 1985  hit "Money for Nothing," by Dire Straits  after a complaint that the lyrics of the Grammy Award-winning song were derogatory to gay men.

A St. John's, Newfoundland, station should have edited the song to remove the word "faggot" because it violates Canada's human rights standards, according to ruling this week by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.

A unnamed listener to OZ FM in the Atlantic Coast province complained to the industry watchdog last year after hearing the song.

The council said it realized Dire Straits uses the word sarcastically, and its use might have been acceptable in 1985 when the best-selling album, "Brothers in Arms" was released, but said it was now inappropriate.

"The decision doesn't really relate to the Dire Straits song at the end of the day, the decision relates to the word in question," Ron Cohen, the council's chairman, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

OZ FM argued unsuccessfully that the song has been played countless times since it was released more than 25 years ago, has won various industry awards, including Grammys in 1986, and remains popular with listeners around the world.

Although the Dire Straits ruling only sanctions the St John's station, it means other Canadian radio stations could get in trouble it they air the song without censoring it.

The Broadcast Standards Council is a non-governmental industry group that administers ethical standards established by its members, Canada's private broadcasters

Dire Straits was led by frontman Mark Knopfler, they dissolved as a band in the 1990s after a string of hit albums and lots of play on MTV.

To this day, still pretty good music.  Order it here in MP3 format.