Deer Tick

Neumos Presents Tour-O-MaticDEER TICKSAT, 3 OCT 2026 at 08:00PM PDTAges: 21 & OverDoors Open: 08:00PMOnSale: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 at 10:00AM PDTAnnouncement: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 at 09:00AM PDTThe ninth studio album from Deer Tick, Coin-O-Matic casts a bright light on a little-known facet ofthe American mythos: the hidden histories of the band’s home state of Rhode Island, where theeveryday dramas of working-class families long collided with the menace of the mafia underworld.As they tapped into their infinite fascination with that strange duality, singer/guitarist JohnMcCauley, guitarist/singer Ian O’Neil, drummer/singer Dennis Ryan, and bassist Christopher Ryanassembled a batch of songs exploring desperation, grief, redemption, and resilience with bothcinematic detail and lived-in emotionality. A sharp new turn from one of indie-rock’s mostenduringly vital forces, Coin-O-Matic arrives as a complicated love letter to a way of life slowlyslipping from the collective memory.The follow-up to Emotional Contracts (hailed by Uncut as one of 2023’s best albums), Coin-O-Matictakes its title from a cigarette-vending-machine company that served as the headquarters ofRaymond Patriarca—a legendary mobster who ran one of the most ruthless crime families in U.S.history. “If you grew up in Rhode Island years ago, you’d see all these mobsters on the news andthen run into them at a restaurant on Federal Hill,” says McCauley, referring to Providence’s versionof Little Italy. “They were criminals but also very colorful characters, and I wanted the album topartly reflect a certain nostalgia for that kind of seediness.”Recorded at Deer Tick’s home studio, Coin-O-Matic marks their first self-produced album in theirtwo-decade-plus lifespan, during which they’ve enlisted A-list producers like Dave Fridmann (aGrammy-winner known for his work with The Flaming Lips and Spoon). “At first it was dauntingnot to have that extra ear in the studio, but it felt like the right time to peel off the Band-Aid andfully trust ourselves,” says O’Neil. “Since we were working in our own space and there weren’t anylimitations on time, we had the freedom to take these four-guys-in-a-room rock songs andexperiment with different ways of decorating them.” Featuring guest musicians like Los Lobos’Steve Berlin (on baritone saxophone) and former Deer Tick member Rob Crowell (on organ), Coin-O-Matic frequently brings a live-wire immediacy to their finespun storytelling. “We’ve never been socomfortable making a record, and I think you can feel that in the performances,” says Dennis, whoengineered the LP. “We weren’t beholden to anyone else’s idea of what Deer Tick sounds like, andbecause of that this album feels like an unfettered capturing of who we are as a band.”Centered on a series of vignettes that merge personal memory and extravagantly nuanced fiction,Coin-O-Matic opens on “Dog Years”—a quietly devastating track that begins in folky intimacy beforebuilding to a sorrowful catharsis. In dreaming up the song’s storyline, McCauley looked back on anassisted-living facility near his childhood home, where his own grandfather spent the final years ofhis life. “The main character of ‘Dog Years’ is based on the guys I used to watch playing chessoutside that building or hanging out at the bus stop, smoking cigarettes and shooting the shit,” saysMcCauley. “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 passing year.”Deeply informed by the singular experience of growing up Irish-Catholic, Coin-O-Matic next joltsinto the ramshackle jangle-pop of “Mary Singletary” and its tender but irreverent tale of interfaithteenage lust. “Most of the stories on the album are from my parents’ generation and the generationbefore that, when the idea of a Catholic and a Protestant getting together was very scandalous,” saysMcCauley. “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 Catholicboy, I did imagine a vengeful God cutting me down in a cartoonish kind of way.”Graced with all the grit and warmth of a classic heartland-rock anthem, “ACI” channels a rawdesolation and its first-person portrait of a man imprisoned at the Adult Correctional Institutionsoutside Providence. “When we were working on the album, I used to drive past the ACI a coupletimes a week and think of all the stories I’ve heard about the mobsters who ended up there,” saysMcCauley. “That song started with us throwing ideas around in soundcheck, and over time I realizedit was meant to be a prison song about the getaway driver of a robbery gone wrong.” Later, on “ExitDoor,” Coin-O-Matic inhabits a gut-punching melancholy as Deer Tick depict an ex-con’s return to aworld he barely recognizes. “I pictured someone who’s maybe in his 70s, and he’s getting out ofprison and all his favorite restaurants are gone, everything’s completely different now,” saysMcCauley. “On one level it’s a celebratory moment of getting your freedom back, but I imagine it’salso really unsettling and confusing for a lot of people.”Lending a more intimate layer to Coin-O-Matic’s underlying theme of impermanence, “EverythingBorn” finds O’Neil taking the lead and delivering a bittersweet meditation on the inextricable natureof love and grief. “I started that song pretty soon after my son was born, and I was thinking abouthow anything that comes into existence will eventually be lost and therefore mourned,” says O’Neil,who now has a seven-year-old son and five-year-old daughter. “It’s tough to view the world throughthat lens, but I wanted to write a song for my children that also speaks to that feeling ofprecariousness.” Another look at the delicate arc of life and love, “Candy Cigarettes” closes outCoin-O-Matic with a gorgeously devastating love song partly inspired by a local monument to thosewho died in the 1981 hunger strike (a protest of British policy against Irish political prisoners). “It’sa song about childhood sweethearts, one of whom comes from Northern Ireland and maybe has afamily connection to one of the hunger strikers,” McCauley explains. “There’s some allusions torecent Irish history but in a very subtle way—mostly I wanted to write a pro-immigrant song, and asong about a love that lasts an entire lifetime.”In its soulful contemplation of recklessness and consequence, longing and devotion, Coin-O-Maticultimately joins the canon of rock albums whose geographically rooted storytelling reveals deepertruths about the human experience. “I think there’s something universal in stories of regret and lossand poor decisions, even if they’re told through the lens of all the odd characters in this little state ofours,” O’Neil points out. “One of the reasons I wanted us to make this album is that I think RhodeIsland deserves to be a contender for a place that people sing about,” McCauley adds. “Sonicallythere’s nothing country about it, but to me it almost feels like a country record set in an urbanenvironment—there’s definitely some outlaws in there. I hope that people see themselves in it, andthat they understand a little more about the place that we come from.”Important Information: This event is 21 & over. Valid ID is required. Minors will not be permitted entry. Doors open at the listed event time. Event start time is generally one hour after doors open but is subject to change without notice. All tickets are nonrefundable with the exception of event cancellation. Support acts are subject to change. Orders in violation of the published ticket limit are subject to cancellation without notice.