The week in music - in pictures

Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo performing at the Uptown theatre in Napa, California Photograph: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images

Steve Earle performing during a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr at the Riverside church in New York Photograph: Craig Ruttle/AP

Garth Brooks enters the courtroom at Rogers County courthouse, in Claremore, Oklahoma. Lawyers for Garth Brooks and an Oklahoma hospital clashed over whether the facility promised to name a women's centre in honour of the country star's late mother after he made a $500,000 donation Photograph: Cory Young/AP

Chris Batten of Enter Shikari performing on stage to promote the release of the band's third album A Flash Flood Of Colour at the Borderline in London Photograph: Christie Goodwin/Redferns

Iris Kroes reacts as she's announced the winner of television singing competition The Voice of Holland in Hilversum, Netherlands Photograph: Ade Johnson/EPA

Festivalgoers take in the sights along Peel Street during the Tamworth Country Music festival in Tamworth, Australia. Peel Street is the main busking strip and the heart of the festival. This year marks its 40th anniversary Photograph: Tracey Nearmy/EPA

PJ Harvey performs at the State theatre in Sydney, Australia Photograph: Don Arnold/WireImage

Thomas Bernich checks albums as they come out of one of his vinyl pressing machines in New York. The 40-year-old churns out tens of thousands of the nostalgia-laden, crackly-sounding 33 and 45 RPM discs Photograph: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images

With the rotating drum of a washing machine on his head, Egil Hegerberg of Hurra Torpedo performs in Budapest, Hungary. The band – formed in the early 1990s – play various kitchen and household machines and tools along with normal musical instruments Photograph: Janos Marjai/EPA

Leonard Cohen in Paris Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images

A biography of Joan Jett is one of over 3,500 books on the shelves at the newly-opened Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Library and Archives in Cleveland Photograph: Amy Sancetta/AP

Alison Mosshart of The Kills performing at the Riviera theatre in Chicago, Illinois Photograph: Timothy Hiatt/Getty Images

Jedward performing at the Huxleys Neue Welt in Berlin, Germany Photograph: Jakubaszek/Getty Images

Etta James, who has died aged 73 after suffering from leukaemia, was among the most critically acclaimed and influential female singers of the past 50 years, even if she never achieved huge popular success. From her first R&B hit, in 1955, the risqué Roll With Me Henry – cut when she was only 15 – through a series of classic 1960s soul sides (the lush ballad At Last, the raucous house rocker Tell Mama and the emotional agony of I'd Rather Go Blind), then a series of critically acclaimed 1970s and 1980s albums that won her a broad rock audience, to more recent albums of jazz vocals, James proved capable of developing and changing as an artist

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Bandleader Johnny Otis, who has died aged 90, was one of the first white American musicians to cross the racial divide, aligning himself with the black community as a teenager and from then on regarding himself – and being treated as – a black man. He attracted many nicknames – among them the Duke Ellington of Watts, the Reverend Hand Jive and the Godfather of Rhythm and Blues – and distinguished himself as a television host, political activist, preacher, cartoonist, painter, chef, record producer, talent scout, DJ, sculptor, writer and organic farmer

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