HOLLA. Tonight there are three pretty fine shows to choose from, including an early in-store, a short bill at a small club and a long bill at a big one. Take a look at the contenders.

Jack of Heart are from France and they play garage punk. That’s all we could figure out. They’re playing a free in-store (including free beer and Pizza – starts at 7pm) at Sound Exchange with the similarly-minded bad boys of the Welfare Mothers. Here is a video of something or other.

In 2007, Jana Hunter sent us a video-phone clip of Health playing some club during the middle of the day at SXSW. Too big to be offloaded, it sat trapped forever in a tiny screen with tinny speakers – but even in so safe and small a place, Health freaked us out. We weren’t sure if our phone was going to destroy itself every time we watched it. Sadly, that phone was destroyed in a fit of rage, and the video is lost to eternity. Not so for this decidedly Koyaanisqatsiesque take on the lead-off from their 2007 album self-titled release.

Health share the stage at Numbers with far too big an opening act lineup that includes atleast BLACKIE, The McKenzies, The Wiggins and Female Demand.

If the fact that they have songs called “Ghost Dick” and “Butt Song” aren’t enough reason for you to go see Spring’s Letters to Voltron at the Mink, maybe this video for “The Clap Came Back” will change your mind. Or perhaps not. Man of one million projects Broman is also on the bill.

We always dug pretty hard on Death From Above 1979 and the fact that they broke up after one album always annoyed the Pringles out of us. We seem to remember it being something about Creative Differences®, which makes sense considering one of them went on to do this MSTRKRFT thing. They (he?) play tonight at Warehouse Live.

ALSO THIS EVENING:
Catch the tailgate Golden Country Sounds of DJ EL PASO at Big Star Bar this and every Wednesday beginning around 9pm or so. Round em up.

Death by Texas, Clory, Lisa’s Sons and Giant Battle Monster all get together at the White Swan to wish Lisa’s Sons a big good luck on their latest tour.