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Florina is composed of members Jackie Beckey (Brute Heart), Paul Borman (Weakwick), Adam Patterson (Magic Castles), and Michael Gallope (IE). The quartet delivers a blend of prog-inspired compositions and pop delivered by viola, bass, keyboards, and drums. Florina released their debut album, Candy Wrappers, in May 2023.

Formed in Minneapolis in 2004, Knife World have converted many unwary bystanders into true believers through their frenetic gigs and kaleidoscopic recorded material. The band worships at the Riff Temple, swapping pomposity for a mischievous intelligence. Guitarist Jon Nielsen plays as if part of some skewed arena-rock mashup, while drummer Josh Journey-Heinz avoids the obvious backbeats by carving out the spaces around them instead. Together they have a fuller sound than most groups with more appendages. A self-released cassette and a cd-r served up hints and guesses, but now their debut LP comes along to deliver the goods. Packaged in a pleasantly eye-gouging 3D gatefold jacket, with glasses mounted into the vinyl. 

City Pages’ Best Rock Band of 2009: “From the deepest, dankest basement party, where the cologne of old sweat and spilled beer drifts like mustard gas, to the 7th St. Entry stage, where their fans pay a cover and buy their beer from the bar in a show of good citizenship, the indomitable rock outfit Knife World knows no master. Bound only by the limits of imagination and the technological capabilities of six strings, an amp, and a handful of drums, Knife World’s compositions are the soundtrack to a Klee canvas, where everything is savage elegance and delirious Technicolor. Wildly adventurous but disciplined, an abandonment of form that never loses composure, Knife World is at once a reduction of and an elaboration on everything classic in the American rock catalog.” - City Pages