Nik Freitas Los Angeles Nik Freitas is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer living in Monterey Park,Ca, a small suburb east of downtown Los Angeles. A self taught musician and engineer,Nik records and plays everything on his records. Freitas was a staff photographer and writer for Thrasher Magazine in the late 90’s and early 2000’s before quitting to turn his attention to music full time in 2002. Since then, Nik has released 10 records and has toured his own music extensively as an opening act for many U.S./European tours with Bright Eyes, Jenny Lewis, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Azure Ray, and Lucius. Nik is a member of Conor Oberst’s Mystic Valley Band and was also in the live performing band for the Danger Mouse and James Mercer project Broken Bells, playing electric guitar and synthesizers for their 2010 world tour. Freitas has also toured with Jenny Lewis playing drums and played Bass for M.Ward’s 2014 tour of Australia, Europe and the Eastern U.S. in 2022, Freitas published a Skateboard Photography book documenting the Skateboarders from the Central San Joaquin Valley of California in 90's. While working on the book Nik recorded an all instrumental album to accompany the Book with the same Tule Fog title. The album was released 11-11-22. Nik Freitas’s tracks Summer Hearts by Nik Freitas published on 2023-07-06T07:25:14Z