in Athens, GA on April 5, 2013. On February 10, 2015, the band announced on Facebook that it was reuniting for a show at the Georgia Theatre on May 29, 2015 and played at Pisgah Brewing Co. in Black Mountain, NC on August 29, 2015. The band was also announced as the surprise headliner for the Resonance Music & Arts Festival in Ohio in September. On September 5, 2017, the band launched a Kickstarter campaign to make a new album. The new album, self-titled Perpetual Groove, was released to backers as a digital download on May 2, 2019. On September 8, 2021, Drummer Albert Suttle announced his departure culminating with the 2021 NYE show. Replacing him on drums is Darren Stanley (Jimmy Herring, Col. Bruce Hampton). Darren Stanley started performing with the band regularly during the pandemic beginning in 2020. On September 17, 2021, Perpetual Groove released the EP, C'mon. Covers? Recorded over four days in March 2021 at Chase Park Transduction in Athens, GA, the album reunited the band with producer Jason Kingsland while serving as the inaugural studio recording with new drummer, Darren Stanley. Ben Hackett (New Madrid) engineered the album. Amberland The band hosted their own gathering every Memorial Day weekend known as "Amberland". It began as a party for friends and family on the property of Mark Day in Jefferson, GA, but had outgrown its Jackson County roots and relocated each year. From 2007 to 2012, Amberland was held at Cherokee Farms, just outside LaFayette in northwest Georgia. The band played long sets over the weekend and Brock Butler traditionally played an acoustic set, known as BrockFest on Sunday mornings during the weekend. Amberland X (May 2011) was the first of the festivals to feature opening acts, with bands like Moon Taxi, Zoogma, Mantras, Under The Porch, Former Champions, and Noise[Org] who all opened for P-Groove during their regular touring seasons. On September 8, Perpetual Groove announced that Amberland would return in 2022 at a new location. Amberland will take place May 27–29, 2022 at The Woodlands Nature Reserve in Charleston, SC. The festival announced a return to form as Perpetual Groove will be the sole act performing three sets a day. Lighting P-Groove had a long relationship with lighting designer Jason Huffer, whose work with intelligent lights and experimental stage set-ups has garnered much attention throughout the fan community as well as the music industry.