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- ↑ Triple J Music News
- ↑ Hobart Mercury, 18 September 2008, "Hip-hop funksters rise to a new level in Hobart"
- ↑ Rolling Stone Sep 2008, review on p.99
- ↑ Melbourne/Yarra Leader, 30 June 2008, "Sounds of beginning follow sad ending" by Annika Priest
- ↑ "The J Award 2007". Triple J . Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2007. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
