http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news en ben@nimbleslick.com Copyright 2008 2008-05-06T16:05:00-08:00 http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/brock_butler_to_appear_on_jam_cruise_7/ http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/brock_butler_to_appear_on_jam_cruise_7/#When:16:05:00Z Set sail with 2009's incredible line-up, including Perpetual Groove's Brock Butler! Click through for the details!Jam Cruise 7 sets sail January 4-9, 2009 and we’re going! Aboard the luxurious MSC Orchestra, we will head to Belize City, Belize & Costa Maya, Mexico. The public on-sale is June 4, so visit http://www.jamcruise.com for all details. This ship has over 800 balconies! Onboard this year are the following; Les Claypool, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Michael Franti feat Jay Bowmen, Keller Williams with Moseley, Droll and Sipe, Galactic Cruise Crewe (featuring Big Sam, Walter "Wolfman" Washington & Trombone Shorty) Leftover Salmon. Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Martin Sexton, the New Deal, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Emmitt-Nershi Band, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Garage A Trois, Lettuce, Porter, Batiste & Stoltz, New Mastersounds, Bonerama, The Lee Boys, The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker, DJ Rekha AND Brock Butler! Join the official crew by heading over to http://www.myspace.com/jamcruise or if you're a Facebook user, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jam-Cruise/28868975467 Don't wait, secure your cabin today, or you'll be left high and dry at port! News, news 2008-05-06T16:05:00-08:00 http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/perpetual_groove_nominated_for_flagpole_award/ http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/perpetual_groove_nominated_for_flagpole_award/#When:14:22:00Z Vote! Vote! Vote! Click through for the link....Perpetual Groove has been nominated for the 2008 Flagpole Awards Jam/Improv Band of the Year, so help us lock in a win by heading over to http://flagpole.com/Awards/ to place your vote. The Flagpole Music Awards are hosted and sponsored by The Flagpole Weekly Athens Magazine - our local rag that covers the happenings around this musically inclined city, so we are honored once again to be nominated by our home town. News, news 2008-05-05T14:22:00-08:00 http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/matt_mcdonald_to_make_final_appearance_with_perpetual_groove_at_this_years/ http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/matt_mcdonald_to_make_final_appearance_with_perpetual_groove_at_this_years/#When:18:28:01Z The official announcement is after the jump....After seven years with Perpetual Groove, Matt McDonald will make his final appearance with the band at this month's annual Amberland Celebration in Lafayette, GA. After a long journey that began at an open-mic night in Savannah, GA, Matt is looking forward to spending more time with his wife and children. We wish the best to Matt and his family and look forward to continuing the friendship that has been forged during the miles and miles of time spent on the road together these past years. Matt has posted a special letter to friends and fans that can be read here on his personal blog. Due to family obligations, Matt will not be performing with the band again until his final appearance at Amberland on May 23rd through the 25th. Perpetual Groove will continue as a trio with the possible addition of guest performers at various appearances throughout the summer. News, news 2008-05-02T18:28:01-08:00 http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/perpetual_groove_added_to_rothbury_festival/ http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/perpetual_groove_added_to_rothbury_festival/#When:18:46:00Z Perpetual Groove joins The Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, John Mayer, and many more at ROTHBURY, click through for the juice!Perpetual Groove is slated to perform at the inaugural ROTHBURY festival in Rothbury, Michigan on July 3-6, 2008 along with an incredible roster of artists, including The Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, John Mayer, 311, Phil Lesh, Primus, Thievery Corporation, Snoop Dogg, Modest Mouse, Slightly Stoopid, STS9, YMSB, The Disco Biscuits, Of Montreal, Mike Gordon, and many, many more. Tickets for ROTHBURY are on-sale now at this website http://www.rothburyfestival.com. There are many different ticket types and packages available. Please read the options carefully to find the set that best fits your festival needs. There is no service charge for ROTHBURY Tickets. A $2.00 Grant Township Land Improvement Fee will be automatically added to the price of each ticket. (This does not apply to the ROTHBURY RV or VIP RV Pass). A 3% processing & handling fee and $10.00 shipping fee are the only additional costs added to the price of each order. All tickets will ship approximately one month prior to event date (shipping details to be announced). All orders shipped within the United States will ship by UPS 2nd Day Air for $10.00 per order. All orders shipped outside of the United States will ship by Global Priority Mail for $10.00 per order. When your tickets leave our building, you will receive an e-mail with detailed tracking info. All ROTHBURY tickets are special commemorative tickets printed using 100% recycled materials. Keep your tickets in a safe and secure place. Lost, stolen, or damaged tickets cannot be replaced! Single day tickets for ROTHBURY are not available. For complete line-up information and details regarding the event, please head on over to http://www.rothburyfestival.com! News, news 2008-04-03T18:46:00-08:00 http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/perpetual_groove_to_return_to_all_good_this_summer1/ http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/perpetual_groove_to_return_to_all_good_this_summer1/#When:20:40:00Z Perpetual Groove returns to one of the best festivals on the East Coast, click through the jump for more details....The 2008 All Good Festival has invited Perpetual Groove to return this year! For the uninitiated, All Good is a fantastic festival set at Marvin's Mountaintop in Masontown, West Virginia on July 11,12, & 13. This year, All Good is bringing their best line-up yet to the table - in addition to Perpetual Groove, expect to see Widespread Panic, Phil Lesh, Gov't Mule, Micahel Franti & Spearhead, Kellar Williams, Derek Trucks, and just way too many more to list. Head on over to http://www.allgoodfestival.com to view the entire line-up. 1st tier tickets are not onsale through Music Today, in addition to special VIP packages, which include early admission, car camping, exclusive viewing areas with premium site lines, private air conditioned bathrooms, discounted beverages, access to showers, and exclusive festival merchandise - get the lowdown here! And if you're in the Baltimore or D.C. area, be sure to check the official Walther Productions Website for shows featuring All Good Festival Artists! News, news 2008-04-02T20:40:00-08:00 http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/save_41_show_cancellations/ http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/save_41_show_cancellations/#When:10:29:00Z A few changes to the calendar....The following shows have been cancelled on the Spring leg of the Save 41 Tour schedule..... April 2 - Varsity Theatre - Baton Rouge, LA April 8 - Bottling Company - Lawrence, KS April 13 - Stage Stop - Rolliesville, CO April 15 - Old Rock House - St. Louis, MO News, news 2008-03-26T10:29:00-08:00 http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/ted_freed_rip/ http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/ted_freed_rip/#When:01:41:00Z The passing of a friend....Today we mourn the passing of our friend and former business manager, Ted Freed. Ted truly embodied the spirit of a kind soul and he will be missed. We first met Ted as his efforts to bring live music to the Tampa scene were blossoming and quickly developed a friendship that resulted in several shows in the tampa area and ultimately, his employment as our first business manager. Ted firmly believed in the power of bringing people together through music; he played in his own band, he promoted shows, he managed local bands and helped to nurture the careers of several musicians by any means possible. His efforts culminated in his first ever festival, Euphonia, at The Spanish Moss Farms in Florida. Perpetual Groove would not be where they are today without his help and we are forever grateful. News, news 2008-03-06T01:41:00-08:00 http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/nesting_whats_your_carbon_footprint/ http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/nesting_whats_your_carbon_footprint/#When:14:49:01Z A quick mention of Perpetual Groove's environmental efforts....To prove just about anything, you must first measure the thing at hand. How much energy do you use at home? At the Redwood Coast Energy Authority on Fifth Street in Eureka, they'll let you borrow monitors at no charge from their “Tool Bank,” so you can find out which appliances in your home cost you the most in energy dollars (http://www.redwoodenergy. com). How many miles per gallon does your car get? To measure go to http://www.calculatenow.biz. How do you convert ounces to cups in a recipe? Go to the USDA's Web site, http://www.nal.usda. gov, and find out. Yes, there is a way to measure just about everything we humans do on this planet. Which brings me to my next question: How big of a carbon footprint do you make on the Earth? Not familiar with the term yet? Not too worry: Here's a “Carbon Footprint 101” from http://www.carbonfootprint.com: A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our human activities have on our environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide. Simple. Say you're planning a road trip across the country, and you'd like to find out just what kind of damage you'll be making to the environment in driving that motorhome from sunny California to the rocky shores of Maine. At http://www.carbonfootprint.com, you can find out just what kind of impact you personally make via your ZIP code. Recently, I received an e-mail from the promotions guys of a band called Perpetual Groove that was in town a few days ago at the Red Fox Tavern. Now, when you think of a band touring the country, huge tour buses come to mind, and following the buses, huge big rigs with all their equipment. On an average 20-city tour, the carbon footprint made can be astounding. Not so for this band, as it is following a new trend by making up the difference in other ways. I liken it to a “Friends” episode in which the pregnant vegetarian Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) is craving meat and the carnivore, Joey (Matt LaBlanc), offers to make her difference for her by sustaining from anything that was once alive. Perpetual Groove has signed up with the Green Mountain Energy Co. and has offset its emissions with renewable energy credits. In 2007, the band purchased enough energy credits to offset 100 percent of the calculated carbon emissions associated with last year's tour (16 metric tons), which they say is likened to not driving your car for more than 39,000 miles, or the annual carbon absorption of 2,000 trees. Making your difference. That's really what it's all about. Just for tickles and giggles, I found the carbon footprint for Christmas in the United Kingdom online, as follows: * Christmas food: 26 kg * Christmas car travel: 96 kg * Extravagant lighting displays: 218 kg * Christmas shopping: 310 kg What does this mean? Well, first off, it's sad to me that most of the work done in measuring these amounts is being done in the United Kingdom, not the United States. Hopefully, that will change with time and we can get on board as a country in the near future. The other thing these numbers tell us is that the total amount of carbon dioxide produced by Christmas activities in the U.K. checks in at 650 kg per person -- equal to 5.5 percent of the U.K.s annual carbon footprint. Imagine that! Five percent of their total for the year is derived in just a few weeks, and I think we can safely assume the U.S. is no different. Now, for those of us who are at a loss and hated statistics in college, the whole idea of measuring may seem overwhelming. A simpler gauge day to day may just have to suffice. Rather than tout the overused word “environmental,” how about the good, old-fashioned word “conservation”? Back in the day, that's just what this was all about. Don't be wasteful, plain and simple. As my good, old-fashioned mom would have said, “Waste not, want not.” Still good advice, Mom. Sharon Letts is a staff writer in the Times-Standard's Lifestyle section. Her Nesting column appears every Thursday in the Home and Garden section. Contact her at 441-0512. News, publications 2008-02-29T14:49:01-08:00 http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/this_aint_your_grand_daddys_hippie_jam_band/ http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/this_aint_your_grand_daddys_hippie_jam_band/#When:14:33:00Z This is Perpetual Groove and they're nothing short of the divinely-inspired deliverers of both enlightenment and endarkenment that is promised by their moniker. Think M.C. Escher spawning with Bob Dylan and one might get an inkling....This is Perpetual Groove and they're nothing short of the divinely-inspired deliverers of both enlightenment and endarkenment that is promised by their moniker. Think M.C. Escher spawning with Bob Dylan and one might get an inkling. Perpetual Groove began their first of two sets Monday at 11:30 p.m. at the Red Fox Tavern. The four members appeared on stage as smoothly and quietly as water over moss: It took their warm-up sounds to draw the crowd. The band warmed up like an orchestra, their notes and beats emanating out from the front of the newly-raised stage and through the mellow ferocity that is the Red Fox Tavern, like the appreciative hum the forest must make when it is finally bereft of humanity. The sound built slowly, magnetizing the audience to to the stagefront as irrevocably and steadily as raindrops running down a window pane: No deluge of star-crossed fanatics there. We all kind of just ... gravitated. But tha's what PGroove can do to a person. This group of four quietly blazing, musically gifted men from Athens, Georgia, imparts what can only be described as a love affair between the beauty of the solitary soul and the spontaneous combustion which occurs in a particle accelerator: A supremely interesting, wholehearted union, that at rides the quark between piercing melancholia and lightness of being that winds out into the aural equivalent of floating. And tight? You bet. From the first precursor to sound these gentlemen are together. One can only imagine how they prepare themselves, it's as if they've been playing for hours instead of seconds. No stiff fingers or hesitant vibe from this crew. What followed thereafter was approximately two hours of mind-bending, soul-rending, heart-upending true music that took strands of blues, funk, soul, folk and techno and wound them into a gorgeous web that can only be described as PGroove. Just what is it that makes Perpetual Groove so special, that sets them apart from the myriad other bands careening through the tour scene? Is it perhaps that, in a world seemingly overrun with flash and dogma, there still exist those who are, what, brave enough? Reckless enough? Inspired enough? To say what's on their minds without dramatizing or seeking to capitalize on it? Could it be that when one listens to Perpetual Groove one is actually getting close to some section of the overall truth and in getting closer to that truth is calmed rather than incensed by it? (How many truths have come out recently that are nothing short of incensing: WMDs anyone? The troubling fact that for every pasty, old, white and dashing young politician in Washinton there are some 30 or 40 lobbyists buzzing around them like fruit flies picnicing in the People's breadbasket?) Verifiable that, all in all, truth, like art and music, is a subjective concept but between the crowd, the music and a lovely conversation with the band's frontman, Brock, when everyone else was packing up to go, one gets the impression that Perpetual Groove may be that rare manifestation of being who, although they find themselves in a position to do so, refuse to lie to us. Check them out on the Web: http://www.pgroove.com Listen to some of what they have to say and close your eyes to drink in the eloquence of how they convey it. You might just be glad you did. Mary Masucci can't be reached; she's way too far out there. However, if you have a band you'd like her to review, you can contact the Entertainment Editor at the Times-Standard, Chris Durant. cdurant@times-standard.com. Complaints not accepted: If you can't say anything nice, keep it to yourself. News, publications 2008-02-29T14:33:00-08:00 http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/crystal_bay_cancelled_for_saturday_night/ http://www.pgroove.com/index.php/news/news_article/crystal_bay_cancelled_for_saturday_night/#When:21:44:00Z Stinkin' weather has done shut the band out of some hot casino action, more after the jump....We regret to inform our fans that the band has been forced to cancel tomorrow night's appearance at The Crystal Bay Casino due to weather and snow accumulation in the mountain pass en route to the venue. In addition, we are unable to chain the tires on the bus due to contractual obligations with the charter company. To our fans in Tahoe - we're sorry we won't be making it in for some hot casino action, but we'll do our best to catch you on the next go around. Tonight's show in Petaluma and this weekend's two night stand in Eureka are both still on....thanks for the support California! PG News, news 2008-02-22T21:44:00-08:00