Soul Sides — The Violinaires: Groovin' With JesusPut Your Hand in the HandFrom Groovin' With Jesus (197?)One of the best known gospel funk songs out there is the appropriate titled "Groovin' With Jesus" by the venerable Violinaires. This Detroit-founded group has... more info

Soul Sides — For the longest time, I've been meaning to write a series of posts on gospel soul but for whatever reason, I kept putting it off. Then, a few weeks ago, I was asked to review two new gospel anthologies for NPR:Fire In My BonesBorn Again FunkThe revie... more info

the fakeRICH weblog!!! — As you all know, Feel Good Friday’s were invented by our own PrettyboyPaul and he always gives us all very choice music. Today I got an email from some friends over at DFA letting us know about a very special Friendly Fires / Holy Ghost collab and ... more info

Nialler9 — You might have heard this already from a radio rip but here’s the official stream of the Holy Ghost!’s cover of Friendly Fires’ ‘On Board’. The recently deceased Jeremy Fuchs also contributed to the track. The full details of the release ... more info

Altsounds — It started off as a drunken conversation at Corsica’s Calvi Rocks festival in July 2009. Friendly Fires had just played live, Holy Ghost had just finished DJing, and in the post-gig haze the decision was made by each band to cover one of the... more info

Stereogum — Michael McDonald collaborating/Phoemixing DFA duo Holy Ghost! are trading covers with UK dance-punkers Friendly Fires on a forthcoming split 12″. Funny, that, since Friendly Fires’ “On Board” is already a stomping bass/clicked-and-quirked dan... more info

DrownedInSound — St Albans' finest ever act, Friendly Fires have announced a split single with remix specialist duo Holy Ghost!, with the added (but certainly not unique) twist that each band will cover the other's song. I remember NOFX did this once, possibly with R... more info

NME — Drunken conversation leads to joint release more info

Discobelle.net — NYC production and dj duo Holy Ghost! just did an exquisite mix for Beats In Space. Great stuff all around on this one. Beats In Space #506: Part 2, Holy Ghost! (direct link) Tracklist after the jump. 13. The House Girl – Bessie Smith (Farley Jack... more info

My Old Kentucky — (design by Eric Stine)MOKB, Laundromatinee & MOKB Presents are once again teaming up with some of our favorite do-gooders here in Indianapolis to bring you a really excellent event. February 13th at Big Car, starting at 8pm, To Haiti With Love will f... more info