Nik Chewing
@nikchewing.bsky.social
Local Natives & Chewing Inc.
chewinginc.com
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That time of the year again, send me your favorite music of 2025.
Here are my notes about my favs
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Here are my notes about my favs
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Chewing Choices 2025: My favorite new music of the year
I ran into a few friends recently, who I hadn’t seen in years, independent of each other, not like a group at once. They’ve never replied…
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January 5, 2026 at 6:48 PM
That time of the year again, send me your favorite music of 2025.
Here are my notes about my favs
nikewing.medium.com/chewing-choi...
Here are my notes about my favs
nikewing.medium.com/chewing-choi...
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Chewing Quintet (Live in Los Angeles) out now!
Recorded & improvised live one take in concert.
Chewing Quintet: Nik Ewing, Dave Harrington, Ryan Hahn, Spencer Zahn & Griffin Goldsmith
Streaming everywhere via chewinginc.com
Recorded & improvised live one take in concert.
Chewing Quintet: Nik Ewing, Dave Harrington, Ryan Hahn, Spencer Zahn & Griffin Goldsmith
Streaming everywhere via chewinginc.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Chewing Quintet (Live in Los Angeles) out now!
Recorded & improvised live one take in concert.
Chewing Quintet: Nik Ewing, Dave Harrington, Ryan Hahn, Spencer Zahn & Griffin Goldsmith
Streaming everywhere via chewinginc.com
Recorded & improvised live one take in concert.
Chewing Quintet: Nik Ewing, Dave Harrington, Ryan Hahn, Spencer Zahn & Griffin Goldsmith
Streaming everywhere via chewinginc.com
Reposted by Nik Chewing
Chewing Quintet (Live in Los Angeles) out now!
Recorded & improvised live one take in concert.
Chewing Quintet: Nik Ewing, Dave Harrington, Ryan Hahn, Spencer Zahn & Griffin Goldsmith
Streaming everywhere via chewinginc.com
Recorded & improvised live one take in concert.
Chewing Quintet: Nik Ewing, Dave Harrington, Ryan Hahn, Spencer Zahn & Griffin Goldsmith
Streaming everywhere via chewinginc.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Chewing Quintet (Live in Los Angeles) out now!
Recorded & improvised live one take in concert.
Chewing Quintet: Nik Ewing, Dave Harrington, Ryan Hahn, Spencer Zahn & Griffin Goldsmith
Streaming everywhere via chewinginc.com
Recorded & improvised live one take in concert.
Chewing Quintet: Nik Ewing, Dave Harrington, Ryan Hahn, Spencer Zahn & Griffin Goldsmith
Streaming everywhere via chewinginc.com
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The second half of the concert was an improv, free jam; the band made up of some of my favorite artists that I’m grateful to call friends. The entire concert was recorded & after some careful editing, mixing & curating, the second half of said concert will be released December 12.
November 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The second half of the concert was an improv, free jam; the band made up of some of my favorite artists that I’m grateful to call friends. The entire concert was recorded & after some careful editing, mixing & curating, the second half of said concert will be released December 12.
Last year on my birthday, I performed my debut Chewing concert at the Lodge Room in Los Angeles, Calif. The show was split into two halves; the first half just myself on piano, performing songs from my second solo album “Songs For Linnéa”.
Stream "Morning After Lodge Room" now:
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Stream "Morning After Lodge Room" now:
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Chewing Inc.
CHEWING INC: The offices, sounds & record label of musician & visual artist Nik Ewing. "Pacific Ocean Blue", a reimagined cover of Dennis Wilson's 1977 album in its entirety featuring Local Natives, C...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Last year on my birthday, I performed my debut Chewing concert at the Lodge Room in Los Angeles, Calif. The show was split into two halves; the first half just myself on piano, performing songs from my second solo album “Songs For Linnéa”.
Stream "Morning After Lodge Room" now:
chewinginc.com
Stream "Morning After Lodge Room" now:
chewinginc.com
Sadly cancelled/rescheduled as I'm very ill. Dave and Spencer will still be jamming, get still go to see them, just won't be the full Chewing Quintet
Getting the Chewing Quintet back together for its 2nd "concert". 2 sets of improvisation (see also: "jamming")
August 18 // Club Tee Gee
Atwater Village, Los Angeles
Free
🎹 Nik Ewing
🥁 Griffin Goldsmith (Dawes)
🎸 Ryan Hahn (LN)
🎸📟 Dave Harrington (Darkside, etc)
🐟 (bass) Spencer Zahn (everything)
August 18 // Club Tee Gee
Atwater Village, Los Angeles
Free
🎹 Nik Ewing
🥁 Griffin Goldsmith (Dawes)
🎸 Ryan Hahn (LN)
🎸📟 Dave Harrington (Darkside, etc)
🐟 (bass) Spencer Zahn (everything)
August 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Sadly cancelled/rescheduled as I'm very ill. Dave and Spencer will still be jamming, get still go to see them, just won't be the full Chewing Quintet
Getting the Chewing Quintet back together for its 2nd "concert". 2 sets of improvisation (see also: "jamming")
August 18 // Club Tee Gee
Atwater Village, Los Angeles
Free
🎹 Nik Ewing
🥁 Griffin Goldsmith (Dawes)
🎸 Ryan Hahn (LN)
🎸📟 Dave Harrington (Darkside, etc)
🐟 (bass) Spencer Zahn (everything)
August 18 // Club Tee Gee
Atwater Village, Los Angeles
Free
🎹 Nik Ewing
🥁 Griffin Goldsmith (Dawes)
🎸 Ryan Hahn (LN)
🎸📟 Dave Harrington (Darkside, etc)
🐟 (bass) Spencer Zahn (everything)
August 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Getting the Chewing Quintet back together for its 2nd "concert". 2 sets of improvisation (see also: "jamming")
August 18 // Club Tee Gee
Atwater Village, Los Angeles
Free
🎹 Nik Ewing
🥁 Griffin Goldsmith (Dawes)
🎸 Ryan Hahn (LN)
🎸📟 Dave Harrington (Darkside, etc)
🐟 (bass) Spencer Zahn (everything)
August 18 // Club Tee Gee
Atwater Village, Los Angeles
Free
🎹 Nik Ewing
🥁 Griffin Goldsmith (Dawes)
🎸 Ryan Hahn (LN)
🎸📟 Dave Harrington (Darkside, etc)
🐟 (bass) Spencer Zahn (everything)
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Paramount executives who’ve been doing everything they can to appease Trump watching the South Park premiere after giving Trey & Matt 1.5 billion a few days earlier.
July 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Paramount executives who’ve been doing everything they can to appease Trump watching the South Park premiere after giving Trey & Matt 1.5 billion a few days earlier.
Maybe the worst time in history to name your album "ICEMAN"
In a livestream last night, Drake cosplayed as an Iceman Toronto worker to tease his new album ‘Iceman.’
www.stereogum.com/2314219/drak...
www.stereogum.com/2314219/drak...
July 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Maybe the worst time in history to name your album "ICEMAN"
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regular reminder that fda which regulates safety of your food, drugs and medical devices, cosmetics etc. gets only about $3.5 billion in taxpayer money per year!!!
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
regular reminder that fda which regulates safety of your food, drugs and medical devices, cosmetics etc. gets only about $3.5 billion in taxpayer money per year!!!
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10 reasons not to rank Andrew Cuomo *at all*
June 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
10 reasons not to rank Andrew Cuomo *at all*
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I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment
June 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment
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I am looking for congressional leaders to come out quickly and forcefully against this. We need unequivocal opposition. We need theatric demonstrations of defiance. We need to see leadership. Trump will steamroll us all if we display weakness. Where are our leaders?
An act of war weeks in planning but unauthorized by Congress against a country that Trump's own director of intelligence testified under oath was not close to getting a nuclear weapon.
BREAKING: U.S. strikes Iran's nuclear facilities
June 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am looking for congressional leaders to come out quickly and forcefully against this. We need unequivocal opposition. We need theatric demonstrations of defiance. We need to see leadership. Trump will steamroll us all if we display weakness. Where are our leaders?
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LA produces all of your Made In The USA apparel and fabric. LA is the port for most of your goods and produce. LA makes and the USA takes, baby.
Kristi Noem on LA: "They're not a city of immigrants. They're a city of criminals."
June 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
LA produces all of your Made In The USA apparel and fabric. LA is the port for most of your goods and produce. LA makes and the USA takes, baby.
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It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.
June 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.
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Union leaders are calling for a strike to shut down LA. 🔥
June 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Union leaders are calling for a strike to shut down LA. 🔥
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This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.
The president exists in a dystopian fantasy world with no connection to reality
June 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.
We talked a lot about TWWFNO & BIWFY basically being one album to us. But it's definitely a lot and messy, that's what double albums are supposed to be. I put my ideal one album version of TWWFNOBIWFY in our LN Radio playlist
open.spotify.com/playlist/6TC...
open.spotify.com/playlist/6TC...
LN Radio
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May 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We talked a lot about TWWFNO & BIWFY basically being one album to us. But it's definitely a lot and messy, that's what double albums are supposed to be. I put my ideal one album version of TWWFNOBIWFY in our LN Radio playlist
open.spotify.com/playlist/6TC...
open.spotify.com/playlist/6TC...
Napster is being passed peer to peer
Napster, which launched as a P2P MP3 trading platform in 1999, is changing hands for the third time in five years. After pivots to streaming, VR, and crypto, the company has been acquired by Infinite Reality for $207M with plans to become “a social and interactive music platform.”
👉 bit.ly/41SRB6k
👉 bit.ly/41SRB6k
March 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Napster is being passed peer to peer
Hot take: just design your website well. There's no need for Linktree etc
March 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Hot take: just design your website well. There's no need for Linktree etc
Playing some free improvisational music in LA on Monday
February 16, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Playing some free improvisational music in LA on Monday
staying.bandcamp.com/album/stayin...
Another beautiful LA fire compilation with an essay that really captures what that first few days felt like
Another beautiful LA fire compilation with an essay that really captures what that first few days felt like
Staying: Leaving Records Aid to Artists Impacted by the Los Angeles Wildfires, by Various Aritsts
98 track album
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February 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
staying.bandcamp.com/album/stayin...
Another beautiful LA fire compilation with an essay that really captures what that first few days felt like
Another beautiful LA fire compilation with an essay that really captures what that first few days felt like