Artist: Perpetual Groove

Less than 3 weeks until Blackwater is back @ the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park with a Lineup that's better than ever! The PB&J™ team will be in attendance this year and we hope we can influence as many of our awesome fans as possible to come out and buy tickets for what's sure [...]

• The Movement - Set Sail

One of the music festivals that can often get overlooked amidst a sea of the bigger OSL's and ACL's of the world is the upstate New York gem known as Catskill Chill Music Festival . We've written about the festival in the past and would be remiss to not mention this mini-festival again in 2011. This year's lineup is stacked with some jamband middleweights like Umphrey's McGee, but following right behind are the untz-Bisco stylings of Conspirator and the Dead-based nostalgia funk thing called 7 Walkers (with the Grateful Dead's Bill Kreutzmann at [...]

Perpetual Groove wrap up 2011 with a tow night run at Center Stage in Atlanta on December 30-31. The band Athens, GA band is on tour throughout the Fall. Live dates: 08/25 Jillian's Albany, NY 08/26 The Westcott Theater Syracuse, NY 08/27 The Crooked I Erie, PA 08/29 Beachland Ballroom (Tavern) Cleveland, OH 08/30 Magic Stick Detroit, MI 08/31 Martyr's Chicago, IL 09/03 Legend Valley Concert Venue Campground Thornville, OH [...]

• Perpetual Groove - Cairo > Cave (Mumford and Sons) > Cairo

After a few turbulent years, Perpetual Groove has been hitting their stride in 2011. Brock Butler has been singing with passion and emotion in his voice that went missing for a while and the band has debuted a number of fantastic new songs at Amberland which are keeping setlists fresh. PGroove fans are hoping this hot streak continues into '12 and can celebrate the start of the new year with the quartet at Atlanta's Center Stage. The Athens-based band will play the 1,050-capacity Center Stage Theater [...]

This week's NYC Concert Calendar seems a tad quieter than last week's....which makes it seemingly a perfect week to highlight a bunch of smaller, intimate shows that are going on in town. In last week's post I already flagged Music for Money , specifically for fans of Battles and Tortoise. Those guys continue their run of NYC shows this week. But if you're looking for another interesting instrumental band, I'd also hit Delicate Steve et al at the Morgan....those dudes are all over the map sonically, but a lot [...]

In today's day and age, it's virtually impossible to keep a secret. With social media chirping and tweeting away with constant alerts, and Facebook and the like wasting away our free time and clogging our inboxes, it's amazing that Perpetual Groove is about to host their tenth annual Amberland festival this upcoming Memorial Day weekend - with most of you being none the wiser. As the saying goes, Amberland is not a place, but a state of mind. Please allow me to explain why. [...]

Jam Cruise 10 sets sail from Ft. Lauderdale, FL on January 9 aboard the MSC Poesia and will visit Labadee, Haiti and Falmouth, Jamaica before returning to Ft. Lauderdale on January 14. Over the first nine Jam Cruises a number of artists have proven themselves to be ideal performers for the community-oriented vibe of the trip. Jam Cruise 102s lineup brings nearly all of  those acts back to the open seas including HT faves Umphrey's McGee, Galactic, Soulive, Perpetual Groove, The New Mastersounds, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe and Railroad Earth. [...]

Perpetual Groove 04/23/2011 SBD Matrix [ FLAC, MP3, Stream ] Back in 2003 Perpetual Groove put out their first album with keyboardist Matt McDonald and drummer Albert Suttle entitled Sweet Oblivious Antidote . Last weekend the band played a surprise show in their original hometown of Savannah, GA and performed Sweet Oblivious Antidote in its entirety featuring guitarist Brock Butler on acoustic. Thanks to taper Joel Hudson we can all stream or download a matrix recording of this memorable gig. [...]

We'd like to congratulate Perpetual Groove for winning our Cover Wars March Madness tournament for the second year in a row. The group's cover of Macca's Live and Let Die had a tough road to the title this year as it was selected as a "play-in" contender putting it at the bottom of the bracket, but they came out on top no matter which HT fave they went up against. PGroove's Live and Let Die beat classics such as Hey Jude by Wilson Pickett, The Band's Baby Don't [...]

It seems like only yesterday that we started with the play-in game and had our 32 covers set up to compete. Today we're down to our final showdown featuring Perpetual Groove's cover of Live and Let Die squaring off against My Morning Jacket's performance of It Makes No Difference. The Final Matchup Perpetual Groove - Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney) - A Play-In Selection Perpetual Groove performing Live and Let Die [...]

Cover Wars March Madness rolls on. We've had our play-in round and our first full round of 32 covers and we're left with our Sweet 16. We are in our third year of this tournament and we have just now done the obvious, we have generated an actual bracket so you can visualize how this is all going to go down. Have a look and be sure to vote in all eight matchups. Matchup #1 Ramble On (Led Zeppelin) [...]

With the announcement coming this past weekend that LCD Soundsystem would be playing their final show on April 2nd at Madison Square Garden, it seemed appropriate that we select one of their tunes for Cover Wars. All My Friends was released as a single for LCD's 2007 album Sound of Silver. As you'll see below, that single included two covers of All My Friends. The Contestants: Franz Ferdinand is the first of two artists this week who recorded a cover of [...]

December 31st is the biggest night for live music of the year. An argument might be made for Halloween, but I'm not buying it. Your non-live-music-loving-friends don't say things like, "Halloween is the most anti-climactic day of the year" while you sit there and just snicker. We've been a little Phish heavy this week so let's take a look at how 24 other bands rang in 2011. Side Note: This was my first time using embedded images from setlist.fm and I must say it looks super slick. That site has really got it going on, [...]

bearcreekmusicfestival.com moe. was just added to the headlining slot for this year's Bear Creek Music Festival , joining Umphrey's McGee and more the week of November 12th-14th in Suwannee Music Park down in Live Oak, Florida. This festival looks pretty rad. Also scheduled to perform are Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Lettuce, The New Mastersounds, Perpetual Groove, George Porter’s Running Pardners, Toubab Krewe, Zach Deputy, Maceo Parker, Pee Wee Ellis, Fred Wesley, Bernie Worrell, DJ Logic, Soulive, The New Deal, Bonobo Live Band, Eliot Lipp and many [...]

Founded in 2001 as a bluegrass-only event, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass has morphed into easily the premier free festival in the country offering a diverse roster of roots, Americana, rock and folk. The free festie is celebrating its tenth anniversary and recently revealed their highly impressive line up which will feature sets from am amazing number of HT faves including Umphrey's McGee, Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band, The Felice Brothers, Gillian Welch, The Avett Brothers and Elvis Costello & The Sugarcanes. The all free festival will again take place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on October [...]

Thanks to all who entered our giveaway for two pairs of tickets to Perpetual Groove's annual Amberland festival at Cherokee Farms in La Fayette, GA. We asked our readers to share their favorite PGroove moments and we received some great responses including a nod to the special show the band performed after the Georgia Theatre burned down and the story of a fan who was miracled by a kind gesture from the group's frontman Brock Butler. We randomly selected two winners for the contest and they are Greg [...]

With the strict criteria of needing audio that was captured live during the previous week, some editions of this feature are easier to put together than others based solely on who was touring and who allows taping. This week was pretty awesome, as when I sat down to put this together I quickly found tapes from Thom Yorke's Atoms For Peace, Mark Knopfler, and Ween. Rounding out with HT favorites The Mother Hips and a nod to our Cover Wars March Madness champion and voila - this one was easy. [Thanks to [...]

We started our Cover Wars March Madness tournament with 32 different winners of Cover Wars over the past year. We broke those down into two separate portions as to not overwhelm our voters. Then, we had our Sweet Sixteen , our Elite Eight , the Final Four , and now there are two. It all comes down to this, and it's a battle of jamband quartets. PGroove - This Must Be The Place vs. Phish - Curtis Loew [...]

The Disco Biscuits have had quite a week , but they made it through and Jon "The Barber" Gutwillig is at home resting up after successful surgery on his wrist. In addition to some music from Barber's fill-ins, we've also got audio from Fareed Haque's great world music ensemble, a John Mayer/Michael Franti collaboration, some recent goods from Perpetual Groove and a fantastic classic rock cover from the Ryan Montbleau Band. Another week and another edition of the Last Week's Sauce Podcast. If you want to take this week's five selections with you, [...]

The All Good Music Festival - now in its 14th year - has released its initial 2010 lineup , including headliners like Furthur, Widespread Panic, Umphrey's McGee, YSMB , among many other acts of the jam-friendly variety. This year's All Good will take place July 8 - 11, returning to their usual spot at the scenic Marvin's Mountaintop in Masontown, WV. All Good Festival 2010 Initial Lineup: Furthur Widespread Panic Umphrey's McGee Yonder Mountain String Band Dark Star Orchestra [...]