Groovy accent to go with tan (8)
I believe the answer is:
backbeat
'groovy accent' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.
'go with tan' is the wordplay.
'go' becomes 'back' (backing is a kind of going).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'tan' becomes 'beat' (I've seen this before).
'back'+'beat'='BACKBEAT'
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for backbeat that I've seen before include "One may get into the rhythm -" , "(Un)accented rhythm" .)