In a brand new interview with Robert Miguel of Uvalde Radio Rocks, VIXEN drummer Roxy Petrucci spoke concerning the standing of recent music from the band. She stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Now we have a brand new single popping out. By the tip of the summer time, we’re gonna have a brand new single and a brand new video. We’re simply on the lookout for the proper alternative to — you realize, every little thing needs to be collectively, the promo and all that, after which we’re gonna launch that sucker. It is fairly energetic. I feel it is a good mixture of the previous ’80s mixing with contemporary, new 2023 VIXEN.”

Relating to how the brand new VIXEN track got here collectively, Roxy stated: “We really labored on it with Fred Coury from CINDERELLA. He is fairly the songwriter and he is a producer and he writes jingles for soundtracks and issues like that. So we attached with him and he had the track and he offered it to us. And we stated, ‘Okay, let’s take that and let’s personal it.’ And that is what we did. And it got here out killer. It is a good illustration of this new VIXEN. So I feel followers are gonna dig it. I imply, we definitely do. We owned it, we be ok with it and we’re gonna throw it on the market and, yeah, see if it sticks.”

Final December, VIXEN singer Lorraine Lewis defined to Max Davallo of “Sonic Dorms” about why she and her bandmates had but to launch their new single after beforehand saying it could arrive final summer time. “I type of — I did not make a mistake; I used to be simply excited at first of summer time,” she stated. “‘Trigger I had already gone in and finished my vocals, laid down my vocals for a brand new track for VIXEN. And I do not know — in ‘Lorraine world,’ if it is simply ‘Lorraine world,’ it is occurring quick. However it’s not ‘Lorraine world,’ it is ‘VIXEN world,’ and so there’s a variety of parts that needed to come collectively. So it has been combined,” she revealed. “It’s now being mastered. I simply heard it final week. I am excited.”

On the time, Lewis additionally stated that VIXEN‘s present lineup — wherein she is joined by Petrucci, bassist Julia Lage and guitarist Britt Lightning (a.okay.a. Brittany Denaro) — had additionally been engaged on “different stuff” in current months. “We have been in Boston. There was a track that I had written… God, I’d love to inform titles, however I am simply gonna play it protected and say, no, I am not gonna let you know the title. However we labored on it and laid it down,” she stated. “It sounds actually good as effectively. I do not know precisely what the plan is for that. Julia introduced one thing to the band that all of us actually preferred, and I am hoping that we’ll document that. Britt and I labored on a variety of music collectively; we have got a variety of stuff able to go. Roxy works on a regular basis on music. So it is only a matter of time.

“Now we have turn into a reasonably well-oiled machine stay up thus far,” she continued. “Including Julia as effectively — she’s been with us since January [of 2022], I consider, [or] February. So we’re a machine on stage. So now we simply must transcend that into the studio and with new music. However I am feeling actually good about what is going on on for certain.”

Petrucci is the one remaining member of VIXEN‘s “basic” lineup.

In June 2022, Lewis was requested by SW Wall Interviews if she and her VIXEN bandmates started engaged on new music comparatively rapidly after she formally joined the group in early 2019. Lorraine stated: “Instantly. I’d say inside six months we have been within the studio. We have been in a rehearsal studio within the Valley and we have been engaged on concepts. After which Britt and I, throughout COVID, we have been working collectively simply on Zoom, at the least attempting, ‘trigger there is a bizarre suggestions factor. However we wrote fairly a couple of songs collectively. And so there’s one other track that we’re hoping to get recorded very quickly, and that’s probably going to be with [producer] Toby Wright. So we have got issues cooking. However it did not take lengthy. Once we have been within the rehearsal studio collectively, engaged on music too, and that is when Share [Ross, longtime VIXEN bassist] was with us, [it was] simply tremendous pure. They’d lay down one thing and I’d simply are available with one thing over it and Share would add a vocal line and a melody line and phrases. And it was simply simple peasy. We’ve not had that luxurious to do it with Julia but, however I am certain it should occur. And I do know Julia is a prolific songwriter herself, so I feel that we’ll get some new music going together with her as effectively.”

A yr and a half yr in the past, Ross introduced that she was “taking a hiatus” from VIXEN. Her alternative is Lage, previously of the Latin Grammy-nominated Brazilian rock group BARRA DE SAIA and spouse of Richie Kotzen. Lage made her stay debut with VIXEN on February 8, 2022 on the pre-Monsters Of Rock cruise live performance at Magic Metropolis On line casino in Miami, Florida.

When Ross made the information of her departure public on the aforementioned pre-Monsters Of Rock cruise live performance, she advised the group that “life received somewhat difficult” and that “one thing has to offer,” ensuing to her choice to “step away from VIXEN for some time.” She then launched her “wonderful” alternative and urged the VIXEN followers to “graciously” open their arms and welcome Lage to the group. At that time, Julia and her new bandmates launched into the observe “Streets In Paradise” and performed the final couple of songs of the set with Ross watching the proceedings from the facet of the stage.

Throughout a February 2022 look on SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, Julia spoke about how she ended up hooking up with VIXEN, saying: “Share is taking a hiatus. She desires to do her factor [and focus on her real estate career]. She’s kicking ass. She’s gonna be writing and enjoying endlessly — I imply, she’s a badass artist and bass participant, singer, every little thing, songwriter. So I received the invitation, and I am, like, ‘Yeah, in fact I am gonna be part of. In fact.'”

Requested how the opposite members of VIXEN reached out to her about becoming a member of the band, Julia stated: “Effectively, really, funnily sufficient, earlier than Britt joined VIXEN, me and her tried to place collectively a band, proper when she moved to L.A. However that did not work out, after which she joined VIXEN, and I used to be tremendous pleased for her. So, quick ahead, she really known as me a couple of months in the past and he or she advised me concerning the state of affairs, and I used to be, like, ‘Yeah. I’d love [to do it]. I imply, it is an honor for me to affix VIXEN.’ In order that occurred. And that was it. It was that fast. And I used to be simply, ‘Okay. Signal me in. The place can I’m going?’ [Laughs]”

In January 2019, VIXEN recruited Lewis as its new lead singer following the departure of Janet Gardner.

Lewis had already carried out with VIXEN in March 2018 in Durant, Oklahoma whereas Gardner was recovering from surgical procedure.

Previous to Lewis‘s addition to VIXEN, Petrucci, Ross and Denaro vowed to “broaden upon the VIXEN legacy whereas remaining true to our musical roots.”

Gardner, Petrucci and Ross are thought-about to be a part of VIXEN‘s basic lineup, together with founding guitarist Jan Kuehnemund, who died of most cancers in October 2013.

Gardner contributed lead vocals to VIXEN‘s most commercially profitable studio albums — “Vixen” (1988),“Rev It Up” (1990) and “Tangerine” (1998) — in addition to the group’s newest launch, 2018’s stay album “Reside Hearth”.