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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