Perpetual Groove

Perpetual Groove is back. Playing in Denver for the first time since February of 2012, they settled into their two-night run at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom on Friday with a show that stretched into the wee hours of Saturday morning. The four piece trance rock outfit is riding high with their return to the stage after a two year hiatus; rejuvenated after a collision course of self-discovery and introspective exploration.

It’s the week before Halloween and Brock Butler and Matt McDonald of Perpetual Groove are on different phones and in separate rooms within the same Atlanta recording studio. With two shows in Charleston, SC on the docket, and two more later in the year in Colorado, the band had taken to rehearsals to work out covers and dust off the tunes they’d gotten back to playing earlier in the year.

What’s better than one night of Perpetual Groove? Two! Everyone’s favorite improv-rock band has returned and is stoked to announce back-to-back dates in select markets. Get ready St. Petersburg (Florida, not Russia), Brooklyn, Charleston, Denver, and Atlanta, PGroove are coming at ya! Asheville, NC will also get a healthy dose of the groove this August, and the already announced Resonance Festival in Ohio will experience PGroove’s only festival play of the summer.
 

MoonGoddess Entertainment and Brotherly Love Productions are teaming up to present two nights of Perpetual Groove at State Theatre in St. Petersburg on July 31 and August 1. This news comes on the heels of the band's long anticipated announcement of a reunion show at Georgia Theatre in Athens happening this May.

Newly debuted trio Ghost Owl - comprised of recently disbanded members of the jam staple Perpetual Groove - is proud to announce plans to release a debut album this fall. Ghost Owl spent a busy spring in the studio and on the road fine tuning new tunes and will embark on a summer tour with dates in the Southeast, New York and Chicago. The band will be joined on select dates by Toubab Krewe, Stokeswood and AFRO.

On the heels of two headlining sets at AURA Music & Arts Festival, The Heavy Pets have announced an East Coast Spring 2013 tour hitting Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Illinois, Ohio, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Massachusetts, and Virginia. Complete list of dates below.

On the heels of a busy 2012, Perpetual Groove announced today on their website that the band will be taking an extended hiatus. All previously announced tour dates will continue as scheduled with the same live intensity and dynamic light show that PGroove have become known for. Their final show will take place in their hometown of Athens, GA at the Georgia Theatre on Friday, April 5th.

Perpetual Groove are proud to announce their “Ice Princess #9 Winter Strain 2.013” tour and the launch of a new website. PGroove will glide into the New Year with a string of shows throughout the Southeast and kick off New Year’s Eve in Atlanta, GA.

Grateful Web recently had the opportunity to speak with keyboardist Matt McDonald, and bassist Adam Perry, of Athens, Georgia based Perpetual Groove. The guys talked about their style of songwriting, Matt's time away from the band, their love for Colorado, and why PGroove's music can best be described as 'Trance Arena Rock.'

The name Perpetual Groove indicates a stylistic form for the veteran jam band. You hear the name and imagine long songs segueing through jams from one to the other. In a sense, Perpetual Groove could define many jam bands, but with PGroove, you get the name, and an assortment of various musical tastes and styles that careen from the stage like a robotic factory on overdrive.

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