FEiN Q&A (Little Homes era)
Superpowers, boats, and red rocks — Luke Walton & Brandon Woodward
Archived pre–Little Homes interview: telekinesis vs one-punch, house-river gigs, song-a-month rollout, Taj Ma-Small, and the robotic-toilet story.
Interviews & Q&A
First-person Q&A is the strongest press here: outlets legitimize the work by asking, and the answers carry philosophy, scene context, and a long arc across years — not always fully consistent, but more durable than a one-off review or playlist mention. 26 publisher interviews plus 1 site-held transcript when the outlet is lost. Luke Francis Walton (Scoobert Doobert) has a substantial interview archive; FEiN (Luke Walton and Brandon Woodward) is mostly premieres and profiles, with full duo Q&A scarce. For scholarly work see Publications.
Site archive (1)
Full transcripts hosted on lukefwalton.com when the original outlet is gone or unstable.
Publisher interviews (26)
Canonical on the outlet's site. Full index also on Press → Interviews.
Scoobert Doobert
Core path frame: the egoFM Glumanda interview. Glumanda, not the easy starter: the hard-scaling path, readable only after evolution.
Strong hits
91X FM — Top 91 of 2021 (published Nov 2022) — Don't Worry ranked #90 on 91X's year-end Top 91 countdown for 2021.
Rock Da Fuq Out (2023-10-20) — Strongest modern hit: MÖB, name origin, first instrument, San Diego scene, DIY workflow, mastering, CHAI, health scare, long-term framing.
indiemono — Banana Interview (2022-10-06) — Persona/context Q&A: Scooby-Doo name, KŌAN, cartoons, CHAI production, Japan, cross-cultural songwriting.
egoFM — Scoobert Doobert bei egoFM (2022-09-26) — interview / radio feature · Glumanda / Charmander frame (der schwere Weg), burritos, Pokémon, church-jam story, solo multi-instrumentalist arc; hosts the full 2021 interview.
egoFM — Bier, Burritos und Marihuana (2022-09-20) — Written California-week feature: Encinitas home, I Live in California, beer/burritos/weed community, North Park Co., San Diego scene; quotes plus audio.
egoFM — egoFM Privataudienz (2022-09) — Hosted and curated guest hour on Munich radio (~25 minutes online cut); tracklist includes Slow Jam.wav (Stolen Off of Napster).
The Drop with Danno — GFN Gwangju (2022-02-25) — Full-hour guest session (February 25, 2022 broadcast): world premiere of Think About It, on-air CHAI thread, curated playlist — I'm An Idiot Part II, a song to quit your job to, CHAI WHOLE.
91X FM — studio visit (2021-10-04) — In-studio photo with Tim Pyles (@thelocalpyle); Oct 2021, ahead of Big Hug LP.
91X FM — Loudspeaker Top 5 (April 2021) (2021-04) — Tim Pyles Loudspeaker Top 5: Don't Worry at #1 for April 2021.
Last Day Deaf — 9+1 Q&A (2020-05-19) — Starting music, production after bandmates left San Diego, sound/aesthetic, studio vs live, Japan, future plans.
91X FM — Local Break (2020) — Full circle from Surfdog mailer room (91X on in the background) to Local Break; Encinitas origin story; led to egoFM Munich.
More Q&A
Safari Pedals — ABI ASKS (2026-04-26) — Abi the Producer (@abitheproducer) — creative flow vs technical precision in music production; flow-state Q&A on Safari Audio blog. Instagram promo: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXoAu2LiHx4/.
Purple Melon — Chatterbox (2017-08) — Early one-man-dog-band era: Self Realization Gardens, religion creeps, monthly singles.
FEiN
FEiN, the Los Angeles indie duo of Luke Walton and Brandon Woodward. Mostly premieres and quote-bearing features — not a deep full-Q&A archive like Scoobert. Short stylized names collide with tax FEIN, Sinn Féin, Travis Scott FE!N, and basketball Luke Walton unless you anchor the music entity.
Fresh Beats 365 — “Tellin’ stories, making cool sounds and shit” (2016-04-09) — Tom Roden (Apr 9, 2016): strongest indexed external Q&A — USC/carpool origin, #Grownupz Spotify surge → Little Little Homes, Sculptor LA body-image quotes, Don't You as sound summary, DBSRDS, habanero threshold mid-interview.
Quote-bearing features
I Heart Moosiq — Lucky You premiere (2018) — Retrospective: #Grownupz premiere, Spotify/Hype Machine viral success, Lucky You quotes.
ReverbNation Blog — FEiN interview (2017-01-27) — Luke/Brandon Q&A: #Grownupz 1M+ Spotify, 50k+ playlists, Viral 50 US/Canada/Mexico, Hype Machine; Luke on success: "Hashtags and the letter z. #DragonBallZ"; Christofi The Disco; fourth-writer collab ethos; biweekly singles / SPOOKED.
Fresh Beats 365 — Little Little Homes EP review (2016-03-10) — Tom Roden (Mar 10, 2016): FEiN's new EP is a big success — melancholy indie-electropop teaser; Foster The People/Torches comparison; Sculptor image-obsessed social commentary · #Grownupz bubblegum · Outro vocal dissolve.
BMI — Indie Spotlight: FEiN (2016-09-14) — Authority/profile: pronunciation, SoCal duo, USC/Tiny Giant, Little Homes, #Grownupz on Spotify U.S. Viral 50.
More Q&A
Fresh Beats 365 — #Grownupz MV (2017-04-12) — MV feature: #Grownupz first put FEiN on most radars in 2014.
Hype Machine — #Grownupz (2015-12-16) — #13 non-remix · #20 popular · #2 Twitter · 30k+ plays (Dec 2015 Facebook + charts).
Indie Shuffle — #Grownupz (2015-12-13) — Jason Grishkoff: USC duo, Issue #1 kickoff track (Aug 2014).
I Heart Moosiq — #Grownupz Spotify U.S. Viral top 10 — Indexed: #Grownupz reached Spotify U.S. viral top 10.
Luke F. Walton
Advize — Career interview as associate director of marketing at NAMM.