Mindset Evolution to Release Brave, Bold & Broken Via Prospect Park
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CD Will Be Available Exclusively Through Best Buy and All Digital Retailers
Mindset Evolution will release their full-length debut, Brave, Bold, & Broken, via Prospect Park Records on August 20. The album will be released exclusively through Best Buy and via all digital retailers. The complete track listing features “We Are Stars,” “Burn It Down,” “The Change,” “Invisible,” “Sing,” “Like To Fall,” “Hold Me Down,” “Relevant,” “Home,” “Ready,” and “Hopeless.”
Listen to/watch “We Are Stars” here and “Relevant” here.
Perseverance has become a way of life for the Peoria, IL quintet since they began fighting to be heard in 2005. The band ~ Rob Ulrich (vocals), Brad Prentice (guitar), Josh Bodeen (bass), Joey Gibbz (drums), and Skyler Baer (guitar) ~ went from local stalwarts to national contenders as the winner of 2011’s Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival “Battle of the Bands.” “Burn It Down,” The lead single from Brave, Bold, & Broken, is receiving airplay from rock stations across the country.
By 2011, the band had carved out an impressive following in the Midwest that led to a featured spot on the 2012 Vans Warped Tour, as well as opening slots for the likes of Seether and Breaking Benjamin. As their budding career was building steam, a friend blindsided the band by entering Mindset Evolution in the first-ever Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival “Battle of the Bands.” They emerged victorious out of a pool of over 5,300 bands across the country, and as singer Rob Ulrich recalls, “We had just endured a lineup change and were actually in the process of planning our next step. We wanted to write more, but my buddy found this ‘Battle of the Bands’ contest. He entered us without saying anything, after rallying the fans, and promoting, we ended up winning.” As contest victors, they landed a spot on the Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival 2012, sharing the stage with Shinedown, Godsmack, and Staind for the entire summer.
On the album, produced by Johnny K (Staind, Disturbed), they infuse hard rock with a vibrant, vital, and constant, vulnerable energy. The band’s very moniker suggests the importance of change in the face of life’s trials and tribulations. Ulrich reflects, “If you face an obstacle that you can’t pass, you have to change your approach, and do something differently. You have to look at it from another angle, and find a way around it or through it. That’s what the name is about. That’s what we’re about.”
Brave, Bold & Broken was produced, recorded, and mixed by Johnny K at Groovemaster Recording Studio. The tracks “We Are Stars,” “Like to Fall,” “Relevant,” and “Hopeless” were produced and mixed by Jay Baumgardner, and remixed by Johnny K.
Mindset Evolution appeared in May at Rock on The Range and Rocklahoma alongside support shows with Korn and Buckcherry. The band has continued touring regularly and are currently out with Fight or Flight.
Upcoming performances include:
8/09 Pawtucket, RI The Met
8/11 Bethlehem, PA Musikfest (FoF & Avenged)
8/13 South Bend, IN Club Fever
8/14 Rockford, IL District
8/15 Bloomington, IL Castle Theatre
8/17 Madison, WI Alliance Energy Ctr (W/ Sevendust)
8/ 18 Spring Lake Park, MN Pov’s
8/20 Omaha, NE Sokol Underground
8/21 Des Moines, IA Woolys
8/22 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Amph. (Uproar)
8/23 Kenosha, WI Brat Stop
8/24 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Th. (Uproar)
8/25 Nashville, TN Exit / In
8/27 Tulsa, OK Vanguard
8/28 Little Rock, AR Rev Room
8/30 Albuquerque, NM Isleta Amph. (94 Rock Revolt)
9/01 Spokane, WA TBD
9/06 Seattle, WA The George (Kisw Pain In The Grass)
9/07 Ridgefield, WA Pdx Show
9/13 Phoenix, AZ Desert Sky Pav (Kupd Desert Uprising)
9/14 Chula Vista, CA Sleep Train Amph. (Kioz)