Each Friday I pick a song–new, old, borrowed, blue–that’s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.

This is “The Curtain” by Deer Tick:

I listened to Deer Tick’s Negativity album for the first time in a little while over the weekend, and now “The Curtain” is (literally) haunting my sleep. I wake up in the middle of the night and it starts playing in the jukebox in my head. The alarm goes off in the morning and the needle drops on it again, between snoozes.  Deer Tick is an outstanding band on record, and an even better band live, when they combine their outstanding musicianship with an unrelenting insistence that a rock ‘n’ roll show is a party.