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- ↑ "Sonic Bloom: Mostly Bears" Archived 2012-07-22 at the Wayback Machine , Arizona Daily Wildcat , July 18, 2007
- ↑ The Top 30 Archived 2007-12-16 at the Wayback Machine , WHRB Harvard Radio Broadcasting, retrieved December 5, 2007
- ↑ "Review: Mostly Bears - Only Child EP" Archived 2007-10-27 at the Wayback Machine , The California Aggie , October 25, 2007
- ↑ "Critics' Choice Awards", Tucson Weekly , August 16, 2007
- ↑ "Check out songs from our new Album, "The Ed Mitchell Clinic"", Mostly Bears MySpace, February 1, 2008
