Le Loup are an apocalyptic future-folk ensemble from the
District of Columbia whose debut album—on Sub Pop spin-off Hardly
Art—bears the unwieldy but evocative title The Throne of the
Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly. Their
songs reference Dante’s infernal cantos, noisy natural
phenomena, and the rapture. The music sounds like what a band might
play on your back porch while the sky swirled into a black
vortex and your neighbors ascended to heaven—spare, tense,
and atmospherically turbulent. (Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison St,
324-8000. 8 pm, $8, 21+.)