Gracias y Buenas Noches – The Final Show

After over 3 years of show stoppin’ foot-stompin’ heart poundin’ sweat pourin’ southern fried hot brown-eyed rock & soul, Nakia & His Southern Cousins are playing their last show this Saturday night at Jovita’s in South Austin.

Nakia Named One Of Austin’s Fortunate 500 By Statesman

Recently, the Austin-American Statesman published a list of their Fortunate 500. The list was sectioned off to include everything from Food, Nightlife, Education, Movies, and of course… Music – which Nakia’s album, Water To Wine, was “fortunate” enough to be chosen to be listed among some of Austin’s finest musicians and music-related business folks. Here’s [...]

Nakia Interviewed About Twitter By Statesman

Recently, the Austin-American Statesman interviewed Nakia about his use of the social networking phenomena, Twitter. Several other musicians are featured in the article including @benkweller @colinmeloy @trent_reznor and more. The article was published today and is available at newstands now. Here’s an excerpt… ”@nakia Help me spread the word… Nakia & His Southern Cousins at [...]

Austin-American Statesman Reviews Water To Wine

With the official street date of Nakia’s debut full-length, Water To Wine just last week, the Austin-American Statesman has reviewed the album for today’s Sunday edition. Alongside fellow Austin soul rockers, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, the Statesman concludes that the Austin soul scene is “in good shape.” Here’s a quick blurb from the [...]

Nakia On KEYE & News 8 Austin This Morning

Nakia was asked to wake up bright and early to perform live for KEYE and News 8 Austin’s coverage of the Grounded In Music Gala at the Gibson Guitar Showroom. Here’s the KEYE clip first. News 8 footage to follow. Click here to view the KEYE footage. Here’s the News 8 Austin coverage. Also, Austin-American [...]

Exclusive New Album Tracks Stream From Austin360.com!

After answering a short “getting to your ACL artists” Q&A for Austin360.com – I decided to offer them a couple of exclusive tracks to stream from their “Soundcheck” player. They jumped on the chance and posted the Q&A along with a link to the tunes right here. Enjoy! ACL is coming up soon!!