Choose The Next Cover of Rolling Stone!

The choice is yours!

Rolling Stone is allowing readers to vote on which one of 16 unsigned bands should grace an upcoming cover of the legendary music magazine.

In Rolling Stone's first-ever "Do You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star?" contest, the magazine is soliciting readers' votes -- online at RollingStone.com -- to whittle a group of 16 bands down to one, who will appear on the magazine's August 18 cover.

Read More...

Glee Star Angers Parents Groups With Cosmo Mag Cover

Last year she took heat for posing in her panties in GQ, and now Lea Michele is drawing criticism for another racy photo shoot.

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, according to FoxNews.com.

"I think Lea Michele is sending the wrong message. She plays such a 'good girl' on Glee and a lot of kids look up to her persona. Then she poses very provocatively on two magazine covers which makes my almost-13-year-old son very confused and offended," New York mom Kim Trefcer told the conservative news site. "I find it frustrating as a parent who is trying to teach right from wrong to their kids and then you have things like this happen which is showing middle schoolers things like sex sells and all that goes along with that."

Read More...

Hearst To Buy 100 Magazine Titles From Lagardère

Hearst Corporation, the American magazine giant that publishes Cosmopolitan, Esquire and Better Homes and Gardens, said Monday that it had agreed to acquire more than 100 magazines from the French publisher Lagardère in a deal that would make Hearst the second-largest domestic magazine company and greatly expand its international footprint.

Both companies stand to benefit from the deal, which is expected to close in the second half of the year. For Lagardère, which has been seeking to shed its sprawling international operations and focus more on domestic publishing and sports marketing, the deal demonstrates responsiveness to shareholder pressure.

For Hearst, which has lagged behind Condé Nast in the lucrative fashion and beauty advertising category, the deal offers considerable scale in that market. Hearst will acquire the American edition of Elle, which competes head to head with Condé Nast’s Vogue for ads.


Read More...