Bruce Springsteen and CBS Team Up for Album Debut

UPDATE: Stream the full album over at CBS.com here.

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Amazon might be to blame for leaking Bruce Springsteen’s new album two weeks early, but that doesn’t mean that the Boss is going to let that stand in the way of releasing his songs through a television network.

Today, it was announced that Springsteen’s new album will be available for download through CBS’ website CBS.com, while the network will “highlight the disc’s availability on its website during a sneak preview after the January 5th episode of The Good Wife.”

The album, High Hopes, will then be available at CBS.com/Springsteen after the broadcast on Sunday, January 5 through Monday, January 13 at 7:00 PM EST.

In support of the advance streaming through the network, three of Springsteen’s tracks will be featured on the January 12 episode of The Good Wife.

This is the first time that such a promotional stunt as been attempted. A somewhat attempt similar to this was made last year by CBS for an episode of their hit, long-running show, CSI: Crime Scene Investigators. The episode featured none of the characters speaking, much like a silent film, but rather the music of Green Day taking the narrative of the episode.

As for High Hopes, it is one of the most anticipated albums of 2014 since its initial announcement. While the album won’t feature any “brand new material,” it does feature covers, rarities, and reworking of past songs. The album is set to be released on January 14 and will feature members of the E Street Band as well as guitarist Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine.

65th Primetime Emmy Awards Nominees Announced

While the Emmys aren’t exactly right up our music-inspired alley, we do like a good award show where gifted actors shows get the chance to show the public why they are so great and why their TV shows are at the tops of critics lists (well, most of them anyways).

Today, How I Met Your Mother’s  Neil Patrick Harris and Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul, had the task of revealing who those lucky actors and television shows were to be nominated for the award.

The full list can be seen below:

OUTSTANDING DRAMA
Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
Homeland
House of Cards
Mad Men

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Connie Britton, Nashville
Claire Danes, Homeland
Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey
Vera Farmiga, Bates Motel
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Kerry Washington, Scandal
Robin Wright, House of Cards

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Hugh Bonneville, Downton Abbey
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Damien Lewis, Homeland
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Bobby Cannavale as Gyp Rosetti, Boardwalk Empire
Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut, Breaking Bad
Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman, Breaking Bad
Jim Carter as Mr. Carson, Downton Abbey
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, Game Of Thrones
Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson, Homeland

 OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Anna Gunn as Skyler White, Breaking Bad
Maggie Smith as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, Downton Abbey
Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen, Game Of Thrones
Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart, The Good Wife
Morena Baccarin as Jessica Brody, Homeland
Christina Hendricks as Joan Harris, Mad Men

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Nathan Lane as Clarke Hayden, The Good Wife
Michael J. Fox as Louis Canning, The Good Wife
Rupert Friend as Peter Quinn, Homeland
Robert Morse as Bertram Cooper, Mad Men
Harry Hamlin as Jim Cutler, Mad Men
Dan Bucatinsky as James Novack, Scandal

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Margo Martindale as Claudia, The Americans
Diana Rigg as Olenna Tyrell, Game Of Thrones
Carrie Preston as Elisabeth Tascioni, The Good Wife
Linda Cardellini as Sylvia Rosen, Mad Men 
Jane Fonda as Leona Lansing, The Newsroom
Joan Cusack as Sheila Jackson, Shameless

OUTSTANDING COMEDY
30 Rock
The Big Bang Theory
Girls
Louie
Modern Family
Veep

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Laura Dern, Enlightened
Lena Dunham, Girls
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Jason Bateman, Arrested Development
Louis CK, Louie
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Adam Driver as Adam Sackler, Girls 
Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett, Modern Family
Ed O’Neill as Jay Pritchett, Modern Family 
Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy, Modern Family 
Bill Hader as Various characters, Saturday Night Live
Tony Hale as Gary Walsh, Veep

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Mayim Bialik as Amy Farrah Fowler, The Big Bang Theory
Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester, Glee
Sofia Vergara as Gloria Pritchett, Modern Family
Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy, Modern Family
Merritt Wever as Zoey Barkow, Nurse Jackie 
Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney, 30 Rock
Anna Chlumsky as Amy Brookheimer, Veep

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Bob Newhart as Arthur Jeffries/Professor Proton, The Big Bang Theory
Nathan Lane as Pepper Saltzman, Modern Family
Bobby Cannavale as Dr. Mike Cruz, Nurse Jackie
Louis C.K., Host, Saturday Night Live
Justin Timberlake, Host, Saturday Night Live
Will Forte as Paul, 30 Rock

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Molly Shannon as Eileen Foliente, Enlightened
Dot-Marie Jones as Shannon Beiste, Glee
Melissa Leo as Laurie, Louie
Melissa McCarthy, Host, Saturday Night Live 
Kristen Wiig, Host, Saturday Night Live
Elaine Stritch as Colleen Donaghy, 30 Rock

OUTSTANDING REALITY SHOW HOST
Ryan Seacrest, Host, American Idol 
Betty White, Host, Betty White’s Off Their Rockers
Tom Bergeron, Host, Dancing With The Stars
Heidi Klum, Host;Tim Gunn, Host, Project Runway
Cat Deeley, Host, So You Think You Can Dance
Anthony Bourdain, Host, The Taste

OUTSTANDING REALITY SHOW COMPETITION
The Amazing Race
Dancing with the Stars
Project Runway
So You Think You Can Dance
Top Chef
The Voice

OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY SERIES
Real Time With Bill Maher
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
The Colbert Report
Saturday Night Live 

OUTSTANDING TV MINISERIES OR MOVIE
American Horror Story
Behind The Candelabra
The Bible
Phil Spector
Political Animals
Top Of The Lake

LEAD ACTOR IN A TV MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Michael Douglas, Behind the Candelabra
Matt Damon, Behind the Candelabra
Toby Jones, The Girl
Benedict Cumberbatch, Parade’s End
Al Pacino, Phil Spector

LEAD ACTRESS IN A TV MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Jessica Lange as Sister Jude Martin, American Horror Story: Asylum
Laura Linney as Cathy Jamison, The Big C: Hereafter 
Helen Mirren as Linda Kenney-Baden, Phil Spector
Sigourney Weaver as Elaine Barrish Hammond, Political Animals
Elisabeth Moss as Robin, Top Of The Lake 

The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards will air live on September 22 on CBS with Neil Patrick Harris taking on the role as host for this year’s festivities, so don’t forget to set your TiVo or DVR or whatever it is that you have.

EDIT: We will be updating this list throughout the day, so keep and eye out. 

ACM Awards Live Stream

For fans of country music, tonight will be another night full of rocking country songs and awards for the best of the best in that genre of music.

The Voice judge (and sometimes country singer, I kid) Blake Shelton and first time co-host, Luke Bryan will be taking the reigns as hosts of the evening. Performers will include, Hunter Hayes with Stevie Wonder, Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift with Keith Urban, George Strait, Garth Brooks and even a collaboration between John Mayer and Brad Paisley.

While the laundry list of performers is enough for a country fan to tune in, the list of presenters aren’t that far off either. Presenters include, Gary Allan, Faith Hill, Shania Twain, Trisha Yearwood, Chris Young, Eli Young Band and many more.

For the full list of performers and presenters, tune in tonight at 8 p.m. on CBS for the live airing of the show on the east coast and a tape delay for those on the west coast.

And for those that can’t see it at all, click here at 8 for the live stream of the show.

CBS’ Warning Against Inappropriate Attire

Can we label this under the “huh” files? Yesterday, it was reported that CBS had sent out a massive email to all artists attending this weekend’s Grammy Awards to cover up. They want there to be no possibility of a wardrobe malfunction happening before, during or after the televising of the annual music awards.

Here’s the entire email straight from CBS Standards and Practices team:

Date: February 5, 2013, 10:39:56 PM EST
 Subject: 55th GRAMMYS: Standard And Practice Wardrobe Advisory
***GRAMMYS 2013***-kindly confirm receipt of s&p standards-

CBS Program Practices advises that all talent appearing on camera please adhere to Network policy concerning wardrobe.

Please be sure that buttocks and female breasts are adequately covered. Thong type costumes are problematic. Please avoid exposing bare fleshy under curves of the buttocks and buttock crack. Bare sides or under curvature of the breasts is also problematic. Please avoid sheer see-through clothing that could  possibly expose female breast nipples. Please be sure the genital region is adequately covered so that there is no visible “puffy” bare skin exposure. Please avoid commercial identification of actual brand name products on T-shirts. Foreign language on wardrobe will need to be cleared. OBSCENITY OR PARTIALLY SEEN OBSCENITY ON WARDROBE IS UNACCEPTABLE FOR BROADCAST. This as well, pertains to audience members that appear on camera. Finally, The Network requests that any organized cause visibly spelled out on talent’s wardrobe be avoided. This would include lapel pins or any other form of accessory.

Some reason this feels like a publicity stunt to get more viewers to tune into the Red Carpet/ award show. What do you all think, publicity or just good “looking out”?