Deer Tick Announces 2026 North American Tour In Support Of New Album ‘Coin-O-Matic’

Deer Tick details gritty Rhode Island stories on their new album, Coin-O-Matic, due out via ATO on June 5. The Providence rockers will support their ninth studio album, which features lead single “Mary Singletary,” with an extensive North American tour.

Coin-O-Matic marks the first self-produced album in the band’s +20-year history. The quartet recorded the 11-track project at their home studio. Deer Tick recruited guest musicians including Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin on baritone saxophone and former member Rob Crowell on organ to contribute to the LP.

Deer Tick — John McCauley, guitarist/singer Ian O’Neil, drummer/singer Dennis Ryan and bassist Christopher Ryan — took inspiration from growing up Irish-Catholic in Rhode Island to write the material featured on the follow-up to 2023’s Emotional Contracts. The forthcoming LP is named after a cigarette-vending-machine company that doubled as the headquarters of ruthless mobster Raymond Patriarca.

“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,” explained McCauley about a Providence neighborhood akin to Little Italy. “They were criminals but also very colorful characters, and I wanted the album to partly reflect a certain nostalgia for that kind of seediness.”

Coin-O-Matic came together in a way that the band feels shows a marked progression. “We’ve never been so comfortable making a record, and I think you can feel that in the performances,” noted Dennis Ryan, who engineered the LP. “We weren’t beholden to anyone else’s idea of what Deer Tick sounds like, and because of that this album feels like an unfettered capturing of who we are as a band.”

“Mary Singletary,” the first taste of Coin-O-Matic, is a guitar-driven, hard-hitting anthem that unspools a gripping narrative.

“Most of the stories on the album are from my parents’ generation and the generation before that, when the idea of a Catholic and a Protestant getting together was very scandalous,” said 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 God cutting me down in a cartoonish kind of way.”

The tour begins on June 9 at Brooklyn’s Warsaw. Deer Tick will devote June to stops across the Northeast and Midwest. The run resumes on September 24 in Omaha and continues through a November 21 gig in Norwalk (Connecticut) filled with performances on both coasts and many cities in between.

Tickets for all newly announced shows go on sale starting Friday, March 13 at 10 a.m. local time. Find links to purchase along with more tour and album information below:

Coin-O-Matic Tracklist

1. Dog Years
2. Mary Singletary
3. Endless Loop
4. Sweetest Thing
5. ACI
6. Everything Born
7. Eyelid
8. I Am an Island
9. 507 Smith
10. Exit Door
11. Candy Cigarettes