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- ↑ "Concert Review: The Snow's CD Release Show at Joe's Pub, NYC 1/16/10". Lucidculture.wordpress.com. 2010-01-17. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
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- ↑ "Night Life". The New Yorker. 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
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