Nik Chewing

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…

That time of the year again, send me your favorite music of 2025.

Here are my notes about my favs
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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

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

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.

One song “Morning After Lodge Room” out now.

Chewing Quintet:
Nik Ewing - keys, piano, etc., mixing
Dave Harrington - guitar, etc., mastering
Ryan Hahn - guitar
Spencer Zahn - bass
Griffin Goldsmith - drums

open.spotify.com/track/4QNMNz...

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.

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...

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

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)

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"

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!!!

1. He killed my friend Ward Harkavy 2. He hasn’t lived in NYC for 30 years 3. He was behind “Vote For Cuomo, Not the Homo” in 1977 (his dad v. Koch) 4. He defunded the MTA 5. He covered up killing 12,000 New Yorkers in nursing homes 6. He killed New Yorkers by delaying Covid vaccines at Met Stadium in a dick wagging fight with de Blasio 7. He’s harassed at least 13 women (& blamed it on being Italian!) 8. He’s Netenyahu’s lawyer! 9. He ran interference for Harvey Weinstein! 10. He sued for his women accusers’ OB/GYB records!

10 reasons not to rank Andrew Cuomo *at all*

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

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?

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.

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.

Union leaders are calling for a strike to shut down LA. 🔥

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.

I Am Music by Nik Ewing on Apple Music Playlist · 14 Songs

Some albums are just getting really long. I'm currently still editing my playlist of what I think the ideal Playboi Carti MUSIC album should be.

music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Hail To The Thief (Thom Yorke Alternative Tracklist) Playlist · 1121768364 · 10 items · 1.4K saves

I remember Thom Yorke posted a playlist of a shorter tracklisting of Hail To The Thief, like what the album would be if him alone got to pick the songs and tracklisting.

open.spotify.com/playlist/5zY...

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...

Napster is being passed peer to peer

Hot take: just design your website well. There's no need for Linktree etc

Playing some free improvisational music in LA on Monday

Staying: Leaving Records Aid to Artists Impacted by the Los Angeles Wildfires, by Various Aritsts 98 track album

staying.bandcamp.com/album/stayin...

Another beautiful LA fire compilation with an essay that really captures what that first few days felt like

💔😭 but also get it. Fingers crossed it's another hiatus like last time. Thank you for the good music.