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New Weird America describes a musical movement of the mid/late 2000s. The term is generally believed to have been coined by David Keenan in the August 2003 issue of The Wire, following the Brattleboro Free Folk Festival organized by Matt Valentine and Ron Schneiderman. It is a play on Greil Marcus’s phrase “Old Weird America” as used in his book Invisible Republic, which deals with the lineage connecting the pre-war folk performers on Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music to Bob Dylan and his milieu. The musical style described as New Weird America is mainly derived from psychedelic and groups of the 1960s and 1970s, including American performers Holy Modal Rounders and English group The Pentangle and other psychedelic groups, but it also finds inspiration in such disparate sources as , , music, music, , and early- and mid-20th century American music. Another primary inspiration is outsider music, often played by technically naïve (and often socially estranged) musicians, such as The Shaggs, Roky Erickson, and Jandek.

Other genre classifications of similar period and aesthetics are , , , and .

Many works of the genre are issued in small editions and distributed independently. The music has been covered extensively by L.A.
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December 2008
Thursday 4 December 2008
Oasis

Ryan Adams, Matt Costa

Staples Center
Los Angeles, United States

38 people attended
3 shouts

Wednesday 10 December 2008
Wreck the Halls at Club Nokia

Bloc Party, The Pretenders, CSS, Black Kids

Club Nokia
Los Angeles, United States

42 people attending
18 shouts

Thursday 11 December 2008
The Cure at The Tonight Show

The Cure

The Tonight Show
Los Angeles, United States

2 people attending
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Friday 12 December 2008
The Cure

Last Call with Carson Daly
Los Angeles, United States

9 people attending
4 shouts

Sunday 14 December 2008
KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 2008 Night two at Gibson Amphitheatre

The Cure, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab for Cutie, Snow Patrol, Paramore, Vampire Weekend, Scott Weiland

Gibson Amphitheatre
Los Angeles, United States

21 people attending
16 shouts

Monday 15 December 2008
The Cure at Jimmy Kimmel Live

The Cure

Jimmy Kimmel Live
Los Angeles, United States

3 people attending
2 shouts

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