The Hip AbductionPhoto by Blake Yeager c/o Gasparilla Music Festival Credit: Photo by Blake Yeager c/o Gasparilla Music Festival
A Seafarer and the Infinite Dream, the latest album from St. Pete’s very own The Hip Abduction, tackles topics such as giving the finger to negativity around you, and leaving your soul in California.

The world-pop group returns to St. Petersburg’s Jannus Live this on Saturday, Nov. 26 for the first time since a New Year’s Eve 2018 gig with Passafire, and we’re still keeping our fingers crossed that the band will play a fourth GMF gig in 2023.

This article appears in Nov 17-23, 2022.

Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's calendar editor. He started as a freelance music writer in 2020 at the age of 18, and after spending years covering, announcing, and previewing concerts in...