Over and Under

One big show, one smaller Trap R&B is nothing new, but the preponderance of it is. Roy Woods is the latest attendant, a max-relax 20-something who’s here less to turn you up than to bring you down easy. He drapes himself in dark synths, chilly blue light and action-movie bass rattles that roll through his stylized down-tempo pop like headlights through the blinds of your bedroom window. A member of Drake’s OVO crew, Woods — stylized as Wood$, of course — is in good company, and for good reason. He sounds like a relative of The Weeknd, albeit with less range and less inclination to test it. Still, he’s an easy bet for the genre’s promising prospects. See for yourself when Woods plays Summit Music Hall on March 27. Tickets are $20-$125 via ticketfly.com. A deep itch, flushed cheeks, beads of sweat — The Savage Blush’s shows are one of the reasons -- certainly not the cure -- for the spate of dancehall fever that flares up now and again around Denver. Under clatches of reverb, the surf’s-up psych three-piece invokes the ghosts of the misremembered 1970s, and can turn a cold night inside out with a tempo change. Swampy single “Half Broken” is a good example: It feels like a visitation from Janis Joplin, with credit due to frontwoman Rebecca Williams’ witchy charisma. The band plays Syntax Physic Opera, an equally enigmatic space, in Denver on Friday. Fellow Denver hip wigglers Palo Alto will open the show. Tickets to the evening are $7 at the door.