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NEWS February 5th 2012 Legendary Rock Interviews have done an interview with Jan, which covers subjects from the history of Vixen pretty much from the beginning to the present day. January 30th 2012 Here is the album cover art for Maxine's new album. It was illustrated by Gaetano di Falco, www.gaetanodifalco.com. Release date for the album and concert dates are to follow.
January 27th 2012 And there is now an official Vixen Facebook page, at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vixen/266438203422093 January 24th 2012 Jan and Jenna were interviewed by Frankie Dee on The Real Radio Show recently and the interview is now available for download on their podcast. It starts at around 78 mins 30. In the interview, Jenna talks about the new album: they are in pre-production, probably going into the studio in spring, and looking to release it around the end of the year. Vixen have just started a Twitter account, at http://twitter.com/officialvixen December 29th 2011 Jenna was on The Today Show in America on Dec 28th, in connection with the "Sugar, Sugar" cookbook. Video of the appearance along with some recipes can be seen on their website. Maxine will be playing a gig on February 4th 2012 as support to Sebastian Bach, her former bandmate in Madam X! See here for details on the show. December 16th 2011 A new audio interview with Jan has been posted on RockEyez.
September 19th 2011 Another new interview with Roxy, this time at MoxiMusic. Share is working on music again with Bam, with their band The Lovestains. They have one song, Downtown, available to play on Reverbnation, and are going in a different direction, more in a rock / soul / blues vein. September 6th 2011 A new interview with Roxy has been posted at Eternal Terror, in their 'Blast Beast Series', talking all about drumming. August 18th 2011 Venü, an arts/culture/style magazine based in Fairfield, Connecticut, has done a feature on Janet in their July/August 2011 issue. Go to their website to read the story online; it can be found on page 56 and includes stories from Vixen's history as well as information on her current activities.
August 12th 2011 A video of How Much Love has now been posted from the Scrap Metal show. August 10th 2011
* 'The Boys are Back in Town', 'Free Ride' + hotel room rehearsal videos. August 3rd 2011 Rock Express have posted an exclusive interview with Jenna covering the subject of her new cookbook, "Sugar, Sugar", as well as including questions about Vixen. As regards the latter, Jenna says they expect to be touring again next year and have been actively writing songs this whole time for the next album. A couple of tracks have been recorded so far, one being "a beautiful new ballad called 'I Understand' that is very melancholic but uplifting". July 10th 2011 In what is now turning out to be an annual occurrence, Janet is doing another show this summer with Scrap Metal. It is on August 5th, again at the Mohegan Sun Wolf Den, and other guests this time will include Joe Lynn Turner and John Corabi. For full details see here. February 16th 2011 'Bad Day', a straight ahead rock n' roll tune written and recorded by Gina Stile (guitar and bass), Roxy Petrucci (drums) and Deana Cook (vocals) can be listened to on YouTube. The song was engineered and mixed by Gina at Stile Studios in New York. January 27th 2011 Video footage of Vixen from the Tangerine tour in 1998 has been posted on YouTube, as follows : I Want You To Rock Me and Never Say Never November 23rd 2010 A few pictures of the 'Classic Rock III' event featuring Jenna can be seen here. Additionally, there is an interview on German TV which includes an acoustic version of Edge of a Broken Heart at the end. My tour dates archive is updated. Many thanks to Bert for additional information on the Ozzy tour, 1998 dates, etc. There are still a few unconfirmed dates/venues so if anyone can confirm those please let me know. November 1st 2010 A video compilation of Jenna's performance at the Seehotel Fontane show in Germany has been posted on YouTube. It includes clips of the Vixen songs Edge of a Broken Heart, Cryin', Love is a Killer and How Much Love as well as of covers of Rock and Roll and Here I Go Again.
August 1st 2010 Janet will be appearing at the Scrap Metal show at the Mohegan Sun Wolf Den, Uncasville, CT which is now on August 20th. June 5th 2010 Roxy has posted a video from the Cape Breton International Drum Festival, of her playing the song Titania by her sister Maxine. May 29th 2010 Cape Breton International Drum Festival : Video footage of Gina's band Thunderbox has been posted on YouTube.
It features excerpts of covers of songs by Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Motley Crue, Metallica, etc. Maxine will be playing at the Sirens of Metal II festival in Detroit on August 13th. For more details see here. May 4th 2010 Promo video for Cape Breton Drum Festival, 2010 Year of the Legends : April 20th 2010 After Roxy has worked with Lorraine Lewis, it's now Share's turn! March 20th 2010 More Scrap Metal shows have been announced. Despite what it says here, Janet is not confirmed as a guest for these shows.
If she were to perform, it would only be at the Connecticut show : Maxine news : February 1st 2010 The interview with Janet in Powerplay magazine is now finally out, in their February 2010 issue. See below :
I only found one photo of Roxy at NAMM 2010 :
December 14th 2009 Roxy will be at NAMM 2010 at the Zildjian booth Saturday Jan 16th @ 3pm. Share has moved to Florida! Check out her blog. October 31st 2009 Live footage of Maxine at The Emerald Theater, Mt. Clemens, Michigan on October 22nd can be seen on YouTube : Her next show is at 'New York New York' in Chesterfield, Michigan on November 25th. October 12th 2009 Roxy is featured at www.drummagazine.com as part of Women Drummers Week. Her interview is dated for October 14th but is already online.
September 17th 2009 Some pictures of Maxine and her band from the Sirens of Metal Festival have been posted at the Sirens of Metal myspace page. See from the bottom of page one onwards. September 21st - Video footage of Maxine's show can now be seen on YouTube. August 25th 2009 Info just received re Cape Breton International Drum Festival which Roxy is appearing at next year : August 7th 2009 The August 2009 issue of Powerplay magazine has a review of the Scrap Metal show including a very positive review of Janet's performance. Click below to read it.
More Rocklahoma pictures can be viewed at the Feverfest site. Additionally, some footage of Vixen can be seen at the start of this Rocklahoma 2009 Day 4 in Review video. 
July 28th 2009 There have now been some pictures posted online from Rocklahoma. July 24th 2009 I've been trying to find some media from Vixen's appearance at Rocklahoma, but there's very little around. Very few videos, the best of which is : 
June 18th 2009 Roxy obviously made quite an impression at the Cape Breton Drum Festival - she will be amongst the 2010 recipients of their Legends Award! Also she will be performing there again next year. Congratulations to her! Jan has a couple of items of memorabilia - her coat from the cover of the first Vixen album, and Vixen orange logo guitar from Rev It Up - on display at an exhibit in The Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. Pictures can be seen on the official Vixen page. 
June 9th 2009 Pictures of the Scrap Metal show on June 6th including several featuring Janet can be seen at theywillrockyou.com More news on Janet via Share's blog ;-) - she mentions Janet singing with Scrap Metal and goes on to say : Plus Share says "I’m gonna be a regular Rock Star Counselor and they’ve got more camps lined up for Los Angeles in November." 
June 2nd 2009 Roxy has posted a report of her appearance at the Cape Breton International Drum Festival. Check it out here. May 21st 2009 Roxy has done a short interview with The Cape Breton Post ahead of her appearance at the International Drum Festival. Read it here. May 15th 2009 Janet will be performing live for the first time in a few years. She will be a guest of Scrap Metal (a band made up of various 80s/90s band members which often features guest vocalists) at their show on June 6th at the Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, Connecticut. For full details see here. A recap of Share's experience as Rock Star Counselor at the Rock n Roll Fantasy Camp including photos is now up on her site. May 11th 2009 Metal In My Veins can now be listened to on Maxine's myspace, and Roxy's myspace (seems to have come out with the drums sounding clearer even though it's not a different mix!) May 8th 2009 Roxy has posted : Maxine has another show (as part of a 4 band bill), on Saturday June 13th at 'New York New York' in Chesterfield, Michigan. I think it could be a double celebration on that day ;-) May 1st 2009 Jenna was interviewed today on www.angelofmetal.com. Apparently the Live in Sweden CD/DVD is still due
out sometime this year, whereas the new studio album will likely be recorded towards the end of the year for release in 2010. 
April 20th 2009 Share is going to be a 'Rock Star Counselor' at the Hollywood Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp. Other artists who will be at this years event include Steven Tyler, Todd Rundgren, Duff McKagan, Bruce Kulick and many more. For more info see here. She also has a new site, www.shareross.com, which is still under construction but already has a fair amount of info to check out. Already included are a bio, discography, photo albums and links to all the (many) things she is or was involved in. Finally, you can follow her at http://twitter.com/shareross April 6th 2009 On Yedda.com a fan has posted asking what Janet is doing now and Janet has replied! Here is what she said :
March 26th 2009 Maxine Petrucci finally has a live date! She will be playing the Token Lounge in Westland, Michigan on April 18th. As far
as I can tell, her band line-up is Jeff Whittle (Bass), Pat Deleon (Drums), and Michelle and Melissa Russo (Backing vocals) along with herself on guitar and vocals of course. March 25th 2009 Vixen are one of the featured artists for VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80's. The show
premieres on VH1 in two hour blocks from March 31 - April 3 at 10PM each night. March 19th 2009 Vixen have now confirmed that they will be playing at Rocklahoma. They are set to appear on Sunday July 12th. March 15th 2009 The official Rocklahoma website lists Vixen as being confirmed to play this year's event : January 30th 2009 Roxy will be performing at The Cape Breton International Drum Festival at the Savoy Theatre in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. This is a two day event on May 23rd and 24th, 2009.
Tickets should be available online Feb 2nd at www.savoytheatre.com/tickets.htm January 23rd 2009 Pictures from the NAMM show, Roxy with various 'people' (click for larger pics) :
Pictures of Lynn from NAMM can be viewed on her myspace page. January 8th 2009 Vixen related appearances at NAMM 2009 : For news from 2007 & 2008 see archive7. |
Photos of the August 5th Scrap Metal show featuring Janet have been posted on 
Madam X is on the artist ballot for the 2011 Inductees of Michigan Rock and Roll Legends! Votes will open at noon on January 1, 2011, and will close at noon on June 1, 2011.
September 15th 2010
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