Tune in on Monday, September 28th at 10am to hear Cuppa Joe speak with singer/guitarist John McCauley, guitarist/singer Ian O’Neil, and drummer/singer Dennis Ryan of Providence, RI based band, Deer Tick, ahead of their show at The Independent in SF on October 7th.
Latest & ninth studio album from Deer Tick, Coin-O-Matic casts a bright light on a little-known facet of the American mythos: the hidden histories of the band’s home state of Rhode Island, where the everyday 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, the band assembled a batch of songs exploring desperation, grief, redemption, and resilience with 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 collective memory.
Photo: Rich Ferri
