Miss Lewis broke up with her backing band ‘The Licks’ earlier this year and now, as if nothing had happened, she’s got herself a new backing band (The New Romantiques) and has just released her latest record, ‘Terra Ingonita’.

To back up the new L.P, Lewis has announced a rather extensive world tour, spanning nearly fifty dates in all. Starting tonight, September 11th in Toronto, Ontario the tour runs right through until December 8th where she finishes in Portsmouth here in the UK.

As well as a tour, the crazy actress/rocker female has also released a new video for track four off of the Incognita record, Fantasy Bar.

Juliette Lewis has announced a couple of little UK shows in July in the lead up to her full winter tour. No longer with ‘The Licks’, Juliette has formed a new backing band called The New Romantiques to compliment what she says is a new direction for her musically.

Produced with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of Mars Volta fame, Terra Incognita is will be out this autumn. The press release says that Juliette and Omar have worked together in creating an album of romance and tragedy, dreams and disillusionment.

“My next album will be so sonically different than anything I’ve done before and captures many flavors of my emotional life and voice. Do I have fear? Of course but it is exactly what gets me going. Because I L O V E what I’m doing,” she said. And we believe her.

Here are the dates:

13th July – Morecambe Library (all ages)
14th July – London Lexington (18+)

21st October – Glasgow Garage
22nd October – Manchester Academy 2
23rd October – London Shepherd’s Bush Empire
24th October – Bristol Lazarette Festival @ Anson Rooms
25th October – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms

Tickets are £14 for London / £15 for Bristol and £12.50 everywhere else.

Source: www.sound-screen.co.uk

Added 37 pictures to our gallery of Juliette on stage with her new band, The New Romantiques.

Also, Juliette talked to NME about the demise of The Licks and the evolution of The New Romantiques at SXSW 2009 in Austin. “The thing with The Licks was that I was always trying to keep it on the road,” she said. “Making records was secondary, so even the records we made, they were okay, but they were always better as a live band. So this is the first time I wanted to really take my time, and the only thing is the music has to be fueled by crazy passion and inspiration. If other people around you don’t have that, I can’t try to inspire everybody, that’s not my job. My job is just to be a songwriter.” Watch the interview below.

Rolling Stone’s Saturday afternoon showcase at Peckerheads went from a sweaty affair to a sweltering one as singer-actress Juliette Lewis hit the stage with her new band, the New Romantiques, to run through material from her upcoming disc, Terra Incognita. As Lewis told RS backstage, she wanted to step out from behind the power riffs of her previous band, the Licks, and embrace a sound where guitars were more of an atmospheric backdrop for songs teaming with raw emotion. (The Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez became her collaborator after the two met at a festival and talked Fellini films). “Holy shit, I feel like we’re in my living room,” she exclaimed after ending her opening song, “Romeo,” a dark and mysterious number, with a piercingly epic note. “In the closet of my soul.”

Juliette Lewis has revealed her latest musical endeavor, dubbed Juliette and the New Romantiques.

Lewis and her newly minted crew will kick off a string of live festival gigs with a performance March 18 at this year’s SXSW in Austin, TX, followed by a stop at San Diego’s IndieFest V March 28 before heading off for a two-night stand June 5-6 at Germany’s Rock Am Ring Festival. Itinerary details are below.

The actress and rock frontwoman–who in mid-January ended her seven-year run with her previous band, The Licks–also announced that an impending album, “Terra Incognita,” is in the pipeline, which new group’s MySpace page listed only as “coming soon.”

The songstress commented on her MySpace blog, “This new incarnation is more about disillusionment and hope. Determination and despair. Romance and tragedy. And truly creating music that comes from those conflicts. It is more about a sound and energy than a ‘band’.”

Forget The Licks – actress/rocker Juliette Lewis’ new sidekicks are called the New Romantiques.

After announcing in mid-January on Juliette and The Licks’ MySpace page blog that the “Licks are no more. It is the end of our run … For now,” this week Lewis announced the new band’s name, along with new shows and a new Web page.

Lewis explained her new album, Terra Incognita, which is set for release this spring and was produced by Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez Lopez, called for a new name for her band.

“Because this album is so sonically different than anything I’ve done before and captures many flavors of my emotional life and voice, it needed an entirely new name,” she said of Juliette and the New Romantiques.

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Check out Juliette and the New Romantiques’ MySpace page as well as new tunes by the band here.

To read the Lewis’ full blog post click here.