Legendary R&B singer Etta James — famous for her hit songs “At Last” and “Something’s Got a Hold on Me” — has died.
The singer — whose health was on a rapid decline the last few years — was diagnosed with leukemia in 2010. She also suffered from dementia and Hepatitis C.
Her live-in doctor announced the singer was “terminally ill” last month, after her leukemia was declared incurable.
Etta died at a hospital in Riverside, California … her manager confirmed.
She won 6 Grammys in her lifetime — including Best Jazz Vocal Performance in 1994 — and was voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
And how cool is this? Etta’s in the top 10 right now — Flo Rida heavily samples her on his hit, “Good Feeling.” Etta was 73.
Here’s a family that works together like a well-oiled machine to steal a case of beer. I wish there were more episodes of their show. They probably have other neat tricks up their skirts.
UPDATE–The spokesperson for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Jerry Massie, says Justin Walker has been moved to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and placed in Administrative Segregation in the H-unit in McAlester. A cell phone was recovered along with some marijuana. Massie says DOC will be asking for charges to be filed in Greer County as well as proceeding with its own internal misconduct process. This happened less than 24 hours after FOX23 News reported Walker’s Facebook to DOC.
Porn star Sasha Grey reveals all… About her new music career
It is fair to say that the resume of Sasha Grey is more colorful than most. Certainly it’s hard to think of anyone else who’s appeared in a Steven Soderbergh film (2009′s The Girlfriend Experience), essayed a fictionalized version of herself on Entourage, and won an award for Best Three-Way Sex Scene, a trophy she earned for her performance in the as-yet-unreviewed-by-EW 2007 movie F— Slaves.
But the recently retired adult film star is now getting fans hot and sweaty in a non-porn stylee thanks to her new career as a DJ. Her gigs so far include the after-show of a New York concert by post-punkers the Swans and an appeance at the Playboy Club in las Vegas. “I was getting a lot of offers to host parties in various clubs across the country,” explains Grey. “I mentioned to my manager that I was interested in DJ-ing and he ended up connecting me with some agents. For the most part, the response from people has been pretty positive. Of course, you’ll always have some naysayers. But they never want to say anything to your face. Which is a shame, because I like a good conversation!”
After the jump, Grey converses about her go-to DJ track, her band aTelecine, and whether it’s true that she likes to record naked. (Hey, come on, we had to ask!)
Entertainment Weekly: What kind of music do you play when you DJ?
Sasha Grey: It really depends. I have such eclectic taste and that doesn’t always work with clubs. I play a mix of Top 40, rock, and hip-hop. Then I always try and throw in my own stuff, like some post-punk, or some old school hip-hop. Just things that people don’t really expect to hear me play unless they’re really my fans.
EW: Do you have a go-to song that you know will get people up and dancing?
SG: I have my little pop playlist. One I really like it, and people dance to it when I play it, is Robyn’s “Dancing On My Own.”
EW: How serious are you about this?
SG: It’s been taking off. But I’m also focusing on acting, so it’s something that I’ll be doing—I don’t want to say “On the weekends”—but I’ll do it when I can and have fun with it. I actually plan on possibly touring with a few bands. I can’t say who yet as it’s not 100%.
EW: The music you make with your experimental techno band aTelecine could hardly be farther away from the Top 40 territory. How did you get involved in that?
SG: It was something that I started with a friend just for fun. We would record every now and then, in no professional capacity whatsoever. A lot of home made tape loops. Really rough stuff. Then in 2006, because of people’s social networking on the interwebs, I got a lot of responses about my interest in music. And I was like, “I wonder what people would think about the stuff we’re making?” We created a little MySpace page. A couple of months later we put my name on it and people were like, ‘This is your music? This is crazy!” As of now, all our music is released on vinyl only. We just released an LP at the end of August, it was a 500 limited run, and we’re releasing another LP on November 2 called A Cassette Tape Culture.
EW: I read that you performed on a recent CD by reggae legend Lee “Scratch” Perry. But then I came across an interview with him in which he said you didn’t. Could you clear that up?
SG: Yeah. I had been corresponding for a while with Andrew W.K. (who co-produced Perry’s 2008 album Repentance). We have mutual friends in the music industry. And he asked me to contribute vocals to the album. We swapped files online, so everything was done kind of on an individual basis, and my vocals are on the album. But [laughs] fans of Lee Scratch Perry also know that he’s one unique individual. So…
EW: Is it true you prefer to record naked?
SG: I like to have fun in interviews sometimes. Make of that what you will.
ESPN was on point with their latest 30 for 30 episode. Detailing the close relationship between 2pac and Mike Tyson; leading up the the untimely death of Tupac Shakur.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens for allegedly lying to Congress about using steroids.
Clemens faces charges of obstruction of Congress, making false statements and perjury.
The former Major League baseball pitcher and his former trainer, Brian McNamee, testified under oath at a 2008 hearing before a House committee and contradicted each other about whether Clemens had used the banned substances. (more…)
Monday morning a bunch of us got up at 4am to skate outdoors in 30 degree weather for 6 hours on the set of FOX’s new Chicago cop drama “Pleading Guilty” starring Jason Isaacs of Harry Potter fame, and he killed it as the Bearded Man in Grindhouse too! Despite the fact that it was mad cold, hella early, and most of us were on and hour or less sleep, …and it was a FOX show, we had an awesome time!! If this pilot makes it, look for us…we’ll be the out-of-focus blobs goin back and forth in the background behind Jason Isaacs and a burnt kid in a wheel chair.
My homie Jim and his Harry Potter hero, Jason Isaacs.
Mister Cartoon is definitely on top of his cell-phone collaboration game and this will make for his 3rd limited edition custom phone, this time again partnering with MetroPCS.
The phone can be viewed at the end of the video. We will bring you more straight images of the phone itself not inside of a video soon, so stay tuned!
