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After more than a decade on the road, the Phoenix-born songwriter, poet, and painter finally had the space to process all the highs and lows of a life of constants. She was finally ready to make a record of triumph, while not completely forgetting the years that made her. That record is Loose Future.

After committing to penning a song a day, Courtney found the sounds of summer flowing through her writing—the romance, and possibility, and the free sounds. Collecting an album’s worth of material, she tied up some loose ends in Bisbee, Arizona, her “soul place” and beckoned Sam Evian to come and produce a record. Her guideposts were lots of harmonies and alternative percussion. The rest was pure exploration.

Indie-folk Americana singer/songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews performs Saturday at The Englert Theatre. Courtney will also be a part of the Lit Walk on Friday.

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Lit Hub’s Thresholds Podcast w/ Jordan Kisner, Ganavya, and Kaveh Akbar. Thresholds is a series of interviews with writers and artists you love about the transformative experiences (surprises, crises, existential freakouts, u-turns, breakthroughs) that have shaped their work.

Jordan Kisner is the author of the essay collection Thin Places, named one of the best books of 2020 by NPR.

Kaveh Akbar is the author of Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf 2021) and Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James 2017), and editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse (Penguin 2022).

Ganavya is a vocalist, scholar, and multi instrumentalist. She has a voice described as “a thick ephemera” (New York Times), with an “aching emotional intensity” (JazzTimes), “extraordinary” (DownBeat), and “haunting” (All About Jazz).

The podcast recording will be held on Saturday at The Tuesday Agency. Free and open to the public.

Flylife is a Des Moines, Iowa-based rapper. De’Angelo McGregor, aka FlyLife is known for his ability to mix catchy hooks with high level lyricism and fresh deliveries. FlyLife is not your ordinary rapper.

Water From Your Eyes begun as an anti-pop project à la New Order and LCD Soundsystems, but quickly found themselves pivoting into a style-shaking act, combining art pop, trance, and dance punk into a reflective fusion of influence and genre.

Divino Niño totally upended the way they write songs, eschewing practice room jams for unrelentingly collaborative beats, implied grooves for immersive dance floor heaters, and mellow vibes for frenetic doses of reggaeton, electropop, and trap on their most adventurous and ambitious work to date. Welcome to the Last Spa on Earth.

Iowa-based rapper Flylife, Brooklyn-based electro-pop duo Water From Your Eyes, surreal psychedelic American-Colombian rock band Divino Niño will perform on Friday at Gabe's.

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