Deer Tick

Featuring John McCauley’s Tom Waits–level voice, coupled with Southern-tinged roots-and-country rollicking, no band better epitomizes the pleasures of summertime day-drinking than Rhode Island’s Deer Tick. Spend a steamy afternoon singing along to rowdy favorites like “Let’s All Go to the Bar” or shedding a tear in your beer to the band’s wistful, folky numbers.