Contrary to rumors that've been circulating the past few days, tonight's Perpetual Groove show at Crowbar in Ybor has not sold out — only pre-sale tickets are no longer available.
If you haven't seen the Athens rocktronica foursome yet, I suggest you drop in. P-groove plays an energetic blend of trance-laden electronica, heavy-hitting rock 'n' roll, and jazzy grooves that have gained a deeper bump and funk in recent months via the influence of newish keyboardist John Hruby. The music is bouncy and playful, or quietly sublime and somehow mournful, or aggressive and distorted, or a long-lasting psychedelic electro odyssey, all of it pierced by frontman Brock Butler’s fluid guitar notes and beseeching vocals.
P-groove played St. Pete in December, their cover of Paul Simon's "Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes" transcendent and the jams so smokin' hot that I spent much of the time bustin’ moves. I'll hopefully be doing the same tonight. 9 p.m., Crowbar, Ybor City, $15.
This article appears in Feb 4-10, 2009.