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:24059@goriverwalk.com DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261111T230000 DTSTAMP:20260902T163853Z URL:https://www.goriverwalk.com/greater-fort-lauderdale-events/deer-tick SUMMARY:Deer Tick DESCRIPTION:The ninth studio album from Deer Tick\, Coin-O-Matic casts a bright light on a little-known facet of the American mythos: the hidden hi stories of the band’s home state of Rhode Island\, where the everyday d ramas of working-class families long collided with the menace of the mafia underworld. As they tapped into their infinite fascination with that stra nge duality\, singer/guitarist John McCauley\, guitarist/singer Ian O’Ne il\, drummer/singer Dennis Ryan\, and bassist Christopher Ryan assembled a batch of songs exploring desperation\, grief\, redemption\, and resilienc e with both cinematic detail and lived-in emotionality. A sharp new turn f rom one of indie-rock’s most enduringly vital forces\, Coin-O-Matic ar rives as a complicated love letter to a way of life slowly slipping from t he collective memory.\n\nThe follow-up to Emotional Contracts (hailed by  Uncut as one of 2023’s best albums)\, Coin-O-Matic takes its title from a cigarette-vending-machine company that served as the headquarters of Raymond Patriarca—a legendary mobster who ran one of the most ruthles s crime families 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 restaurant on Federal Hill\,” says McCauley\, referring to Providence ’s version of Little Italy. “They were criminals but also very colorfu l characters\, and I wanted the album to partly reflect a certain nostalgi a for that 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 lifespan\, during which they’ve enlisted A-list producers like Da ve Fridmann (a Grammy-winner known for his work with The Flaming Lips and Spoon). “At first it was daunting not to have that extra ear in the stud io\, but it felt like the right time to peel off the Band-Aid and fully tr ust ourselves\,” says O’Neil. “Since we were working in our own spac e 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 o f decorating them.” Featuring guest musicians like Los Lobos’ Steve Be rlin (on baritone saxophone) and former Deer Tick member Rob Crowell (on o rgan)\, Coin-O-Matic frequently brings a live-wire immediacy to their fi nespun storytelling. “We’ve never been so comfortable making a record\ , and I think you can feel that in the performances\,” says Dennis\, wh o engineered the LP. “We weren’t beholden to anyone else’s idea of w hat Deer Tick sounds like\, and because of that this album feels like an u nfettered capturing of who we are as a band.”\n\nCentered on a series of vignettes that merge personal memory and extravagantly nuanced fiction\,  Coin-O-Matic opens on “Dog Years”—a quietly devastating track tha t begins in folky intimacy before building to a sorrowful catharsis. In dr eaming up the song’s storyline\, McCauley looked back on an assisted-li ving facility near his childhood home\, where his own grandfather spent th e final years of his life. “The main character of ‘Dog Years’ is bas ed on the guys I used to watch playing chess outside that building or hang ing out at the bus stop\, smoking cigarettes and shooting the shit\,” sa ys McCauley. “I imagined an older gentleman losing his partner and that loss accelerating his aging—almost like he was doing seven years of dama ge with every passing year.”\n\nDeeply informed by the singular experien ce of growing up Irish-Catholic\, Coin-O-Matic next jolts into the ramsh ackle jangle-pop of “Mary Singletary” and its tender but irreverent ta le of interfaith teenage lust. “Most of the stories on the album are fro m my parents’ generation and the generation before that\, when the idea of a Catholic and a Protestant getting together was very scandalous\,” s ays McCauley. “With that song in particular\, I liked the idea of writi ng 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 God cutting me down in a cartoonish kind of way.”\n\n Graced 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 Adult Correctional Institutions outside Providence. “ When we were working on the album\, I used to drive past the ACI a couple times a week and think of all the stories I’ve heard about the mobsters who ended up there\,” says McCauley. “That song started with us throw ing ideas around in soundcheck\, and over time I realized it was meant to be a prison song about the getaway driver of a robbery gone wrong.” Late r\, 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 o f prison and all his favorite restaurants are gone\, everything’s comple tely different now\,” says McCauley. “On one level it’s a celebrato ry moment of getting your freedom back\, but I imagine it’s also really unsettling and confusing for a lot of people.”\n\nLending a more intimat e layer to Coin-O-Matic’s underlying theme of impermanence\, “Everyth ing Born” finds O’Neil taking the lead and delivering a bittersweet m editation on the inextricable nature of love and grief. “I started that song pretty soon after my son was born\, and I was thinking about how anyt hing that comes into existence will eventually be lost and therefore mourn ed\,” says O’Neil\, 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 wan ted to write a song for my children that also speaks to that feeling of pr ecariousness.” Another look at the delicate arc of life and love\, “Ca ndy Cigarettes” closes out Coin-O-Matic with a gorgeously devastating love song partly inspired by a local monument to those who died in the 198 1 hunger strike (a protest of British policy against Irish political priso ners). “It’s a song about childhood sweethearts\, one of whom comes fr om Northern Ireland and maybe has a family connection to one of the hunger strikers\,” McCauley explains. “There’s some allusions to recent Irish history but in a very subtle way—mostly I wanted to write a pro-im migrant song\, and a song about a love that lasts an entire lifetime.”\n \nIn its soulful contemplation of recklessness and consequence\, longing a nd devotion\, Coin-O-Matic ultimately joins the canon of rock albums who se geographically rooted storytelling reveals deeper truths about the huma n experience. “I think there’s something universal in stories of regre t and loss and poor decisions\, 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 reasons I wanted us to make this album is that I think Rhode Island deserves to be a contender for a place that people sing abou t\,” McCauley adds. “Sonically there’s nothing country about it\, bu t to me it almost feels like a country record set in an urban environment —there’s definitely some outlaws in there. I hope that people see them selves in it\, and that they understand a little more about the place that we come from.”\n\nFor more information and tickets click here. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.goriverwalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2 026/09/11.11.26-Deer-Tick.jpg CATEGORIES:Music LOCATION:Revolution Live\, 100 SW 3rd Avenue\, Fort Lauderdale\, FL\, 33312 \, United States GEO:26.1213372;-80.14640580000003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=100 SW 3rd Avenue\, Fort La uderdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Revolutio n Live:geo:26.1213372,-80.14640580000003 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