Indie songstress Kaki King [ tickets ] is set to kick off a new round of international dates this month as she continues to support her latest release, "Dreaming of Revenge."

The guitarist/singer/songwriter will start with seven cities across California Jan. 21-31, launching in San Clemente and wrapping in Sacramento. King will head to the East Coast in early February, when she'll open two sold-out shows for indie-folk outfit Beirut, and then she'll segue into extensive tours of Australia and Europe that will keep her busy into April. Stateside dates are listed below and those overseas can be found at King's MySpace page.

The performer made a showing on Billboard's Heatseekers chart with her March release, "Dreaming of Revenge," which continues her evolution from acoustic instrumentalist to full-fledged singer/songwriter. She gave her first recorded vocal performance on 2006's "... Until We Felt Red."

"Even though half the tracks are instrumentals, I feel like I'm writing pop songs," King said of her latest album in her bio. "We really concentrated on the melodies. Everything I write tends to be dense and chordal but, this time, the idea was to layer the challenging guitar work under very simple, beautiful melodies. I really wanted them to be memorable."

King moved from her native Atlanta to New York in 1998 and got her start busking in the subway. Her finger-picking, fret-slapping, percussive guitar style got the attention of Velour Music, which released her debut, "Everybody Loves You," in 2003. Relentless touring followed and King has since headlined shows throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia, according to her bio.

She has also stayed busy appearing on albums by Tegan and Sara and the Foo Fighters, as well as contributing to the film soundtracks "Into the Wild" and "August Rush." Late last year, King composed music for the television special "CNN Heroes, an All-Star Tribute."