Swapping Sinners for Saints

Local soul diva Jordan Valentine has gone from singing with Sinners to singing with Saints.

With the World�s Greatest Sinners on permanent hiatus, Jordan Valentine & the Sunday Saints wee their debut Saturday nighttime with iI sets of throwback individual at the Plough & Stars in Cambridge.

Valentine describes the new troupe as reawakening the sounds of New Orleans �60s r & b as well as Southern soul and Delta grooves. Given Valentine�s previous four-spot years with the Sinners, the new name aptly plays on the old adage �a sinner all week and a Saint on Sunday.�

Former Sinners Andrew Malone on keyboards and Dennis McCarthy on drums carry on with Valentine in the new dance band featuring deuce saxophones, trumpet, guitar and bass.

It could be a while before the World�s Greatest Sinners hit the stage again.

�There won�t be a �last show� or anything lightheaded like that,� Valentine wrote Wednesday in an e-mail blast. �But I�m sure mortal will credibly convince us to do some kind of reunion thing turn about 2030, at which point hopefully some of you will be in that respect to push me extinct on to the stage at the Cantab in my giant rolling pot a la Brother Solomon Burke.�

Catch a preview of Jordan Valentine & the Sunday Saints at myspace.com/sundaysaints. The show at the Plough kicks off at well-nigh 10 p.m. Cover charge: $5.

The Cure�s lucky 13

The Cure has announced the tone ending date for its upcoming album. Since Halloween this year waterfall on a Friday and CDs ar released on Tuesdays, Robert Smith went with an alternative skittish date: Oct. 13.

The as-yet-untitled record testament be the band�s thirteenth studio record album in its dark-tinted vocation. Singles from the record have already been released on the 13th day of the previous month. Beating nursing home the full stop, a new Cure EP titled �Hypnagogic States� drops Sept. 13.

Don�t expect the new full-length to remain nameless, however, as the Cure went the eponymic route with their self-titled 2004 album, a largely forgettable cause with the shoddy wrap up sporting zilch more than a child�s drawing on notebook paper.

We�ve got concerts

Tickets to the following concerts go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster (617-931-2000) and Live Nation (live nation.com):

The Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers, Nov. 9 at the Orpheum. Tickets: $25-$27.50.

Kings of Leon, with We Are Scientists, Nov. 12 at the Orpheum. Tickets: $36.

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Katie Melua To Revisit Georgia

Katie Melua has revealed that she plans to fly to Georgia in two weeks, despite the current conflict between her home country and Russia.

Melua was born in Western Georgia, only left xV years agone to move to Ireland.

"We left wing when civil war started," says the 23-year-old isaac M. Singer, "then we moved to Belfast during the Troubles, so I've lived in war-torn countries for much of my life and don't need to be kept away from my own country."

"While the governments fight over a piece of edwin Herbert Land, it is the people who suffer." Melua added.

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Wilbur Theatre gets its acts together

More than two months after announcing its transformation into a music locale and new home of the Comedy Connection, the Wilbur Theatre appeared ready to opened for business last nox, if merely temporarily.

After Tuesday night�s scheduled show by UK bug out princess Duffy and Wednesday night�s with Gnarls Barkley, the historic 94-year-old Tremont Street theatre will close down again in gild to make out handicap-access renovations.

The city granted the Wilbur�s new lessee, Comedy Connection kingpin Bill Blumenreich, a temporary trachinotus falcatus for the Duffy and Gnarls Barkley shows later on he was forced to relocate concerts by Missy Higgins and Spiritualized as well as a comedy show by �The Soup� host Joel McHale to the Roxy nightclub on the early side of Tremont Street.

�The Architectural Access Board wanted some changes made,� Blumenreich aforesaid Tuesday. �So we�ll do some construction.

�I wasn�t well-chosen about it, but I�ll give them everything they want and I won�t have to deal with it anymore,� he said.

Blumenreich took control of the Wilbur after signing a 20-year lease on the construction in June. Mayor�s office staff spokeswoman Dot Joyce aforesaid all businesses must reapply for amusement licenses when it changes hands.

�We�re scarce waiting for (the Wilbur) to get their permits set ahead the license is tending out, which is standard practice,� Joyce said.

Blumenreich expects the 1,200-capacity Wilbur to reopen by the end of this month or early September. He plans to fill the theater with live music on weekdays and top comedians such as Sarah Silverman on weekends.

�You name a big-time comedy act, ennead out of 10 they�ll be in that respect,� he added. �You�ll see stuff in the next few weeks. It�s really going to be an exciting place.�

The Wilbur has been eyed for rock and pop concerts as Boston awaits the completion of the House of Blues on Lansdowne Street as well as a decisiveness from City Hall regarding capacity limitations at the Roxy. Live Nation already has a busy season planned for the historic theater with shows booked so far including Gavin DeGraw (Sept. 4), Xavier Rudd (Sept. 11), Stars (Sept. 16), Mogwai (Sept. 22), Grace Potter (Sept. 25), Against Me! (Oct. 12), TV on the Radio (Oct. 13), Jonatha Brooke (Oct. 16) and Broken Social Scene (Oct. 26).

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Stefan Nikolai

   
Artist: Stefan Nikolai

   Genre(s): 
Instrumental
   

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 Golden Hits On Panflute Of Stefan Nicolai

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 20

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Beyonc� to produce, star and sing in new film

Beyonc� Knowles has not only signed on to star in 'Cadillac Records' but Sony BMG Films have announced that she will act as executive producer on the project too.
Knowles will play blues singer Etta James and will also record four songs for the soundtrack.
The 1950's period film is about the seminal Chicago record label Chess Records and its founder, Leonard Chess, who started out selling albums out of his Cadillac.
Etta James, Elvis Presley, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Chuck Berry are among the legends who recorded on Chess.
Adrien Brody has already been cast as Chess and Jeffrey Wright (Waters), Cedric the Entertainer (Willie Dixon) and Columbus Short (Little Walter) are also on board.
Knowles will donate a portion of her fees to recovering addicts through her family's charity the Survivor Foundation.
Her song 'Irreplaceable' earned a record of the year Grammy nod this year.

Reporter ordered to testify in R. Kelly trial

Jim DeRogatis gave police sex tape in 2002





NEW YORK -- Chicago Sun-Times music critic Jim DeRogatis has been ordered to testify in R. Kelly's child pornography trial in Chicago.
Judge Vincent Gaughan on Friday rejected assertions from the Sun-Times' attorney that DeRogatis, who gave the sex tape at the center of the case to police in 2002 after receiving it anonymously in the mail, was protected by the Illinois reporter's privilege and the First Amendment.
However, the defense team will not be allowed to ask DeRogatis about how he got the tape or his sources. The reporter is expected to appeal Gaughan's ruling.

First ever Facebook gig played

A young British band has scored a world first - by performing a live gig on
Facebook before anyone else.
REDBOXBLUE - an unsigned band from south west London - made history
last Wednesday.

The six piece - who cite OASIS, KINGS OF LEON and LED ZEPPELIN
as influences - played the gig live from a London studio and streamed it on
Facebook.

They went on to play another four consecutive nights of gigs, with a total of
10,000 people logging on to watch the action over the five nights.

Incredibly, no-one has streamed a live gig on the popular social networking
site before.

All that could be about to change.
Click here to view the band's performance