BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:836@jointherevolution.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261111T230000 DTSTAMP:20260310T161612Z URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/deer-tick/ SUMMARY:Deer Tick DESCRIPTION:The ninth studio album from Deer Tick\, Coin-O-Matic casts a br ight light on a little-known facet of the American mythos: the hidden hist ories of the band’s home state of Rhode Island\, where the everyday dram as of working-class families long collided with the menace of the mafia un derworld. As they tapped into their infinite fascination with that strange duality\, singer/guitarist John McCauley\, guitarist/singer Ian O’Neil\ , drummer/singer Dennis Ryan\, and bassist Christopher Ryan assembled a ba tch of songs exploring desperation\, grief\, redemption\, and resilience w ith both cinematic detail and lived-in emotionality. A sharp new turn from one of indie-rock’s most enduringly vital forces\, Coin-O-Matic arrives as a complicated love letter to a way of life slowly slipping from the co llective memory. \n\nThe follow-up to Emotional Contracts (hailed by Uncu t as one of 2023’s best albums)\, Coin-O-Matic takes its title from a ci garette-vending-machine company that served as the headquarters of Raymond Patriarca—a legendary mobster who ran one of the most ruthless crime fa milies in U.S. history. “If you grew up in Rhode Island years ago\, you ’d see all these mobsters on the news and then run into them at a restau rant on Federal Hill\,” says McCauley\, referring to Providence’s vers ion of Little Italy. “They were criminals but also very colorful charact ers\, and I wanted the album to partly reflect a certain nostalgia for tha t kind of seediness.”\n\nRecorded at Deer Tick’s home studio\, Coin-O- Matic marks their first self-produced album in their two-decade-plus lifes pan\, during which they’ve enlisted A-list producers like Dave Fridmann (a Grammy-winner known for his work with The Flaming Lips and Spoon). “A t first it was daunting not to have that extra ear in the studio\, but it felt like the right time to peel off the Band-Aid and fully trust ourselve s\,” says O’Neil. “Since we were working in our own space and there weren’t any limitations on time\, we had the freedom to take these four- guys-in-a-room rock songs and experiment with different ways of decorating them.” Featuring guest musicians like Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin (on bar itone saxophone) and former Deer Tick member Rob Crowell (on organ)\, Coin -O-Matic frequently brings a live-wire immediacy to their finespun storyte lling. “We’ve never been so comfortable making a record\, and I think you can feel that in the performances\,” says Dennis\, who engineered th e LP. “We weren’t beholden to anyone else’s idea of what Deer Tick s ounds like\, and because of that this album feels like an unfettered captu ring of who we are as a band.” \n\nCentered on a series of vignettes th at merge personal memory and extravagantly nuanced fiction\, Coin-O-Matic opens on “Dog Years”—a quietly devastating track that begins in folk y intimacy before building to a sorrowful catharsis. In dreaming up the so ng’s storyline\, McCauley looked back on an assisted-living facility nea r his childhood home\, where his own grandfather spent the final years of his life. “The main character of ‘Dog Years’ is based on the guys I used to watch playing chess outside that building or hanging out at the bu s stop\, smoking cigarettes and shooting the shit\,” says McCauley. “I imagined an older gentleman losing his partner and that loss accelerating his aging—almost like he was doing seven years of damage with every pas sing year.” \n\nDeeply informed by the singular experience of growing u p Irish-Catholic\, Coin-O-Matic next jolts into the ramshackle jangle-pop of “Mary Singletary” and its tender but irreverent tale of interfaith teenage lust. “Most of the stories on the album are from my parents’ g eneration and the generation before that\, when the idea of a Catholic and a Protestant getting together was very scandalous\,” says McCauley. “ With that song in particular\, I liked the idea of writing about Catholic guilt and pre-marital sex and adding in a little bit of Looney Tunes-style violence—sometimes as a young Catholic boy\, I did imagine a vengeful G od cutting me down in a cartoonish kind of way.”\n\nGraced with all the grit and warmth of a classic heartland-rock anthem\, “ACI” channels a raw desolation and its first-person portrait of a man imprisoned at the Ad ult Correctional Institutions outside Providence. “When we were working on the album\, I used to drive past the ACI a couple times a week and thin k of all the stories I’ve heard about the mobsters who ended up there\, ” says McCauley. “That song started with us throwing ideas around in s oundcheck\, and over time I realized it was meant to be a prison song abou t the getaway driver of a robbery gone wrong.” Later\, on “Exit Door\, ” Coin-O-Matic inhabits a gut-punching melancholy as Deer Tick depict an ex-con’s return to a world he barely recognizes. “I pictured someone who’s maybe in his 70s\, and he’s getting out of prison and all his fa vorite restaurants are gone\, everything’s completely different now\,” says McCauley. “On one level it’s a celebratory moment of getting you r freedom back\, but I imagine it’s also really unsettling and confusing for a lot of people.”  \n\nLending a more intimate layer to Coin-O-Ma tic’s underlying theme of impermanence\, “Everything Born” finds O ’Neil taking the lead and delivering a bittersweet meditation on the ine xtricable nature of love and grief. “I started that song pretty soon aft er my son was born\, and I was thinking about how anything that comes into existence will eventually be lost and therefore mourned\,” says O’Nei l\, who now has a seven-year-old son and five-year-old daughter. “It’s tough to view the world through that lens\, but I wanted to write a song for my children that also speaks to that feeling of precariousness.” Ano ther look at the delicate arc of life and love\, “Candy Cigarettes” cl oses out Coin-O-Matic with a gorgeously devastating love song partly inspi red by a local monument to those who died in the 1981 hunger strike (a pro test of British policy against Irish political prisoners). “It’s a son g about childhood sweethearts\, one of whom comes from Northern Ireland an d maybe has a family connection to one of the hunger strikers\,” McCaule y explains. “There’s some allusions to recent Irish history but in a v ery subtle way—mostly I wanted to write a pro-immigrant song\, and a son g about a love that lasts an entire lifetime.” \n\nIn its soulful conte mplation of recklessness and consequence\, longing and devotion\, Coin-O-M atic ultimately joins the canon of rock albums whose geographically rooted storytelling reveals deeper truths about the human experience. “I think there’s something universal in stories of regret and loss and poor deci sions\, even if they’re told through the lens of all the odd characters in this little state of ours\,” O’Neil points out. “One of the reaso ns I wanted us to make this album is that I think Rhode Island deserves to be a contender for a place that people sing about\,” McCauley adds. “ Sonically there’s nothing country about it\, but to me it almost feels l ike a country record set in an urban environment—there’s definitely so me outlaws in there. I hope that people see themselves in it\, and that th ey understand a little more about the place that we come from.”  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.jointherevolution.net/wp-content/upl oads/2026/03/DeerTick1_RichardMcCaffrey-scaled.jpeg CATEGORIES:All Ages,Concerts,Events LOCATION:Revolution Live\, 100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Lauderdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States GEO:26.121358;-80.1461974 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Laud erdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Revolution Live:geo:26.121358,-80.1461974 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR