LED BY THE fantastically gifted Shane MacGowan, the Pogues (’82-’96, now reunited) mixed punk rock and Irish traditionals into vigorous, drunken (but hyper-literate) rock sublimity. Decemberists’ Jenny Conlee and Chris Funk, with their friends Ezra Holbrook, Jesse Emerson, Derek Brown, Casey Neill, and Hanz Araki are Portland musicians who make their own great noise. This […]
