Brandon Laws of Hosannas is "totally sick of the name change questions" - in the friendliest possible way - so let's not really go there. Sure, Portland's Hosannas was known as Church until some dick-ass Australian band from the '80s, The Church, threatened to sue. Then the band became Ape Cave - but only for a few weeks. And now Laws, his brother Richard, and the rest of band call themselves Hosannas. So what? Get over it. The important thing is now these guys can concentrate on what's important - the music, or as the great Portland Mercury so eloquently put it, "some of the best, most unfuckwithable, avant-pop" they've heard. The assessment is hard to argue. Hosannas will be in Olympia Thursday with a new (re)release in tow - the Hush Records backed Then and Now and Then, a collection of the band's (whatever you call it) first two EPs - which were originally self released and only sold at shows. It's music worth hearing, and when Hosannas hit Northern - for the third time - it'll be a sight worth seeing. 

[Northern, with Prairie Bastards, Saint Street, 8 p.m., all ages $5, 321 Fourth Ave., Olympia, northernolympia.org]