New Weird America is a 21st-century style of music that primarily draws on psychedelic and folk music of the 1960s and 1970s. The term was coined by David Keenan in the issue 234 (August 2003) of The Wire, following the Brattleboro Free Folk Festival organized by Matt Valentine and Ron J. Schneiderman.[1][2][3][4][5][6] It is a play on Greil Marcus's phrase "Old Weird America" as described in his