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- Plume's career picks up steam, Edmonton Journal, September 3, 2008
- The Mike Plume Band, The Vue Weekly, Aug. 27, 2008
- Plum’s down home stories by way of Nashville, The Record, October 20, 2009
- Biography, CMT.ca
- Edmonton Journal - Mike Plume: On the road again, thankfully, with new roots-rock album
- Edmonton Journal - Songwriter Mike Plume channels hockey memories in children's book
- The Scene - Edmonton’s Mike Plume suits the songs on his terrific new roots release Born By the Radio
