Deer Tick
Born On The Flag Day

I have a feeling that if I had a few drinks while listening to Deer Tick’s new record Born On Flag Day, I might like it a little more than I do....

With the 1980s "new country" stalwarts a distant memory and the alt-country scene now diversified to the point of distraction, the door is...

Deer Tick, a slow-to-form alt-country outfit hailing from (the surprisingly metropolitan) Providence, Rhode Island, are yet another band to produce a ...

Country music is just as cliché-riddled as indie rock, though unlike their non-booted amigos, the good country singers know it and use the form...

If his lyrics weren’t all about loneliness, you’d mistake the strain in John McCauley’s groaned vocals as a symptom of some chronic medical issue -- c...

"Some apocalyptic words just look better than others when I'm trying to rhyme or something." Such are the (not quite famous) words of Deer Tick leader...

John Joseph McCauley III is a man’s man, a defiant vestige of the days when self-made independence determined your destiny, and men shared their inner...

Born On Flag Day, Deer Tick’s second album, sounds like the result of a years-long study session in electric folk, classic country, and weepy balladry...

Indubitably, Deer Tick’s first album, War Elephant, was a promising and solid start for the band. The biggest complaint was a silly one, being John Mc...

Though they hail from the distinctly Yankee town of Providence, Rhode Island, Deer Tick prove to have some Southern grit on their sophomore album. The...