[2] Following graduation, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music while attending law school.

[1] Mandi immediately began work on her major label debut album, Alice in No Man's Land.

[3] All the lyrics on Alice in No Man's Land were written by Perkins and the album was produced by Warren Huart and mixed by Michael Brauer.

In the first half of 2009, Perkins played the South by Southwest festival[5] and did a club tour in the United States.

[6][7][8] Perkins asked for a release from her contract with Sony in June 2009[9] and started a new band named of Verona in July 2011.