BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//360exp//Calendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:360exp REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0e74fbe4-8073-4293-b5cc-0190adc26442@360exp.net SEQUENCE:29842517 DTSTAMP:20260928T175115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260927T231731Z DTSTART:20261107T010000Z DTEND:20261107T040000Z SUMMARY:Deer Tick LOCATION:Eulogy DESCRIPTION:Eulogy Presents: Deer Tick\n\nFri\, November 6th\, 2026\n\nEulo gy - 10 Buxton Ave. Asheville\, NC 28801\n\nDoors 7PM || Show 8PM\n\n**Dee r Tick**\n\nThe ninth studio album from Deer Tick\, Coin-O-Matic casts a b right light on a little-known facet of the American mythos: the hidden his tories of the band’s home state of Rhode Island\, where the everyday dra mas of working-class families long collided with the menace of the mafia u nderworld. As they tapped into their infinite fascination with that strang e duality\, singer/guitarist John McCauley\, guitarist/singer Ian O’Neil \, drummer/singer Dennis Ryan\, and bassist Christopher Ryan assembled a b atch of songs exploring desperation\, grief\, redemption\, and resilience with both cinematic detail and lived-in emotionality. A sharp new turn fro m one of indie-rock’s most enduringly vital forces\, Coin-O-Matic arrive s as a complicated love letter to a way of life slowly slipping from the c ollective 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 cig arette-vending-machine company that served as the headquarters of Raymond Patriarca—a legendary mobster who ran one of the most ruthless crime fam ilies 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 that merge personal memory and extravagantly nuanced fiction\, Coin-O-Matic op ens on “Dog Years”—a quietly devastating track that begins in folky intimacy before building to a sorrowful catharsis. In dreaming up the song ’s storyline\, McCauley looked back on an assisted-living facility near his childhood home\, where his own grandfather spent the final years of hi s life. “The main character of ‘Dog Years’ is based on the guys I us ed to watch playing chess outside that building or hanging out at the bus stop\, smoking cigarettes and shooting the shit\,” says McCauley. “I i magined an older gentleman losing his partner and that loss accelerating h is aging—almost like he was doing seven years of damage with every passi ng year.”\n\nDeeply informed by the singular experience of growing up Ir ish-Catholic\, Coin-O-Matic next jolts into the ramshackle jangle-pop of “Mary Singletary” and its tender but irreverent tale of interfaith tee nage lust. “Most of the stories on the album are from my parents’ gene ration and the generation before that\, when the idea of a Catholic and a Protestant getting together was very scandalous\,” says McCauley. “Wit h that song in particular\, I liked the idea of writing about Catholic gui lt and pre-marital sex and adding in a little bit of Looney Tunes-style vi olence—sometimes as a young Catholic boy\, I did imagine a vengeful God cutting me down in a cartoonish kind of way.”\n\nGraced with all the gri t 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 o f all the stories I’ve heard about the mobsters who ended up there\,” says McCauley. “That song started with us throwing ideas around in sound check\, and over time I realized it was meant to be a prison song about th e 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 favor ite restaurants are gone\, everything’s completely different now\,” sa ys McCauley. “On one level it’s a celebratory moment of getting your f reedom back\, but I imagine it’s also really unsettling and confusing fo r a lot of people.”\n\nLending a more intimate layer to Coin-O-Matic’s underlying theme of impermanence\, “Everything Born” finds O’Neil t aking the lead and delivering a bittersweet meditation 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 anything that comes into existenc e will eventually be lost and therefore mourned\,” says O’Neil\, who n ow 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 ch ildren that also speaks to that feeling of precariousness.” Another look at the delicate arc of life and love\, “Candy Cigarettes” closes out Coin-O-Matic with a gorgeously devastating love song partly inspired by a local monument to those who died in the 1981 hunger strike (a protest of B ritish policy against Irish political prisoners). “It’s a song about c hildhood sweethearts\, one of whom comes from Northern Ireland and maybe h as a family connection to one of the hunger strikers\,” McCauley explain s. “There’s some allusions to recent Irish history but in a very subtl e way—mostly I wanted to write a pro-immigrant song\, and a song about a love that lasts an entire lifetime.”\n\nIn its soulful contemplation of recklessness and consequence\, longing and devotion\, Coin-O-Matic ultima tely joins the canon of rock albums whose geographically rooted storytelli ng reveals deeper truths about the human experience. “I think there’s something universal in stories of regret and loss and poor decisions\, eve n if they’re told through the lens of all the odd characters in this lit tle 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 conte nder for a place that people sing about\,” McCauley adds. “Sonically t here’s nothing country about it\, but to me it almost feels like a count ry record set in an urban environment—there’s definitely some outlaws in there. I hope that people see themselves in it\, and that they understa nd a little more about the place that we come from.”\n\nBoletos: https:/ /dice.fm/event/dkq76g-deer-tick-6th-nov-eulogy-asheville-tickets URL;VALUE=URI:https://360exp.net/events/0e74fbe4-8073-4293-b5cc-0190adc2644 2 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR