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 2009 Tour Plans:

September:

11 – Toronto, ON – Opera House

15 – Montreal, QC – Il Motore
17 – Boston, MA – Middle East Downstairs

18 – Northampton, MA – Iron Horse

19 – New York, NY – The Fillmore

21 – Westchester, PA – The Note

22 – Washington, DC – Rock and Roll Hotel

24 – Atlanta, GA – The Drunken Unicorn

25 – Jacksonville, FL – Jack Rabbits

26 – Orlando, FL – The Social

27 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – The Culture Room


October:

02 – Chicago, IL – The Bottom Lounge

03 – Minneapolis, MN – Station 4

04 – Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon
06 – Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre

07 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge

09 – Seattle, WA – Corazon

10 – Portland, OR – Dante’s

11 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom

13 – San Francisco, CA – Slim’s

14 – Las Vegas, NV – Wasted Space

17 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre

21 – Glasgow – Garage

23 – London – Shepards Bush Empire

24 – Bristol – Lazarette Festival

27 – Moscow, Russia – B1 Club

29 – Helsinki, Finland – Nosturi

31 – Stockholm, Sweden – Pumpehuset


November:

03 – Hamburg, Germany – Gr Freiheit

04 – Berlin, Germany – Kesselhaus

06 – Prague, Czech Republic – Palace Acropolis

08 – Vienna, AT – Gasometer

09 – Munich, Germany- Muffathalle

11 – Wiesbaden, Germany – Schlachthof

12 – Cologne, Germany – Live Music Hall

14 – Lausanne, Switzerland @ Metropop Festival

15 – Zurich, Switzerland – Kaufleuten

18 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso

19 – Bochum, Germany – Zeche

20 – Linz, Austria – Posthof

21 – Milan, Italy – Magazzine Generali

23 – Paris, France – Alhambra

25 – Madrid, Spain – Heineken

26 – Pamplona, Spain – Totem

27 – Barcelona, Spain – Apolo


December:

08 – Portsmouth – Wedgewood Rooms

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

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.

Lewis stalked the front of the stage in sequined stockings and a beaded black dress adorned with feathered wings on her shoulders, her eyes closing as she fell into a trancey zone. She busted out a gut-wrenching blues song (”Hard-Loving Woman”), and concluded with the David Bowie-esque “Suicide Divebombers,” which swirled around the refrain “The past is dead.” After showing off how her elastic voice can stretch to accommodate songs that conjure Patti Smith and PJ Harvey, Lewis may just be leaving any preconceived notions about how seriously she takes her music in the past, too.

Earlier Canadians King Khan the Shrines hit the stage with their always-unpredictable soul-garage revue. Frontman Khan emerged from the crowd, escorted by a pom-pom waving colleague, and instantly broke into a sweat, shrieking and strutting like James Brown crossed with Jim Belushi. Organs twirled, sax blasted and a rogue audience member slapped a tambourine on his side as every member of the big band grinned and grooved. “This next song is about being on welfare,” Khan said, introducing a tune with a surprisingly upbeat “sha la la la la” chorus. He broke out his gold cape and an evil laugh, ending the too-short set with an appropriately dramatic flourish.

Source: Rollingstone.com

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’.”

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.