Over and Under

One big show, one smaller Long before the lyrics of Phoebe Bridgers’ entrancing debut album, “Stranger in the Alps,” step out of the ether, her smoke gets in your eyes. With a crack band at her back (singer-songwriters Conor Oberst and Ethan Gruska are credited on the album) Bridgers’ gloomy reflections feel elemental, like diffuse moonbeams cast over lost life and expired love. But it’s the words that get you: “Motion Sickness” pins a phrase to the emotional whiplash that comes with some creaky relationships, even if that phrase isn’t quite enough for Bridgers: “There are no words in the English language / I could scream to drown you out.” Catch her at the Gothic Theatre on April 6. Daddy Issues opens the show. Tickets are $15-$17 and available via axs.com. In a dulcet tone, the Larimer Lounge’s April 15 bill screams Sunday evening. The headliner is PJ Morton, the Maroon 5 keyboardist who’s grown beyond his side-stage career in that stadium-filling band. On “Gumbo,” Morton’s latest, his deep-rhythm pop flows like treacle with splashes of modernity — crystal-clear production, a bump-and-grind jam called “Go Thru Your Phone” — to keep it weighted toward the neo side of soul. Earlier in the evening, The Other Black, Denver’s premiere live hip-hop band, will loosen the audience’s proverbial shirt collar. If you haven’t seen Wes Watkins’ sprawling, horn-spiked band yet, punch your ticket before it’s too late. Tickets to the show are $20-$25 and available via ticketfly.com.