If you don't want to get too deep into it, the easiest thing is to delay or anticipate the snare or kick drum about a 7th of a 1th note.
You can also reserve that delay or anticipation of the beat for only one section of the music so that the groove between sections is slightly different.
To get deeper into it... Altough there are a lot of things you can do, one thing is to have the 1st and 3rd beats arrive early by a 7th of a 16th note. You can have this apply only to the drummer, only to the rhythm section or the whole ensemble depending on what you like to hear.
If you've pushed the bass drum ahead or behind the beat just make sure that the 1st and 3rd beats of the measure are the ones that are closest to the actual beat (aka tactus... Google it).
Another thing you can do is when the snare and the kick drum are "simultaneously" on the same beat. Just make the snare slightly earlier than the kick drum.
You can also make the snare latest on the 4th quarter note of the first bar of a 4 bar groove (it may still early if you've pushed all those beats ahead but the 4th quarter note of the first bar should not be as early as the other ones) and make the snare earliest on the 2nd beat of the 4th BAR.
It's a lot of work but another thing you can do is to have either the drummer, rhythm section or the whole band accelerate through the middle of a 4 bar groove (aka the 2nd and 3rd bars of a 4 bar groove). If only the drummer accelerates in the middle then he has to lay back on the 4th bar so everyone comes in at or near the same time when the down beat comes. The downbeat would be the 1 (aka 1st beat) in 1234 of the first bar of the next 4 bars.
The chorus is frequently made to play slightly faster than the verse. And when anything repeats there should be slight tempo variations such as when the verse comes around again or the chorus.
Delay the 1st snare when speeding up to make it more convincing. You can also push one of the other instruments ahead of the beat such as the bass, guitar, piano/synth etc...
James Brown used to make the Bridges slightly faster than the previous section.
He also used to have sections decelerate slightly toward the end of a tune to make the ending more convincing especially after the bridge. So when the verse comes around again after the Bridge (which was slightly accelerated) then that verse is slightly slower than the last verse played and the chorus after that may also be slower than the verse that preceded it or at least slower than the last chorus played.
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