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Interviews & Q&A

Interviews, Q&A, and features with Luke F. Walton, Scoobert Doobert (his primary music project), and FEiN. 28 live on the outlet. Academic work: Research.

Interviews, Q&A & features (28)

Each links to the outlet's own page. Full index also on Press → Interviews.

Scoobert Doobert

The long Scoobert interview is on egoFM.

Interviews and features

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) · They talk about MÖB, where the name came from, his first instrument, the San Diego scene, the DIY workflow, mastering, CHAI, a health scare, and thinking long term.

indiemono: Banana Interview (2022-10-06) · A Q&A on the Scooby-Doo name, KŌAN, cartoons, producing for CHAI, Japan, and writing across cultures.

egoFM: Scoobert Doobert bei egoFM (2022-09-26) · 2021 interview on Radiowelt (Sept. 2022): Charmander / Glumanda, burritos, Pokémon, church-jam story, going solo as a multi-instrumentalist.

egoFM: Bier, Burritos und Marihuana (2022-09-20) · A written feature on his week in California: the Encinitas house, I Live in California, the beer, burrito, and weed community, North Park Co., and the San Diego scene, with quotes and audio.

egoFM: egoFM Privataudienz (2022-09) · He hosted and curated a guest hour on Munich radio. The online cut is ~25 minutes, and the 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 conversation about producing for CHAI, 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.

91X FM: Loudspeaker Top 5 (September 2020) (2020-09-03) · Tim Pyles Loudspeaker Top 5: Moving To Canada at #4 for September 2020.

Last Day Deaf: 9+1 Q&A (2020-05-19) · They talk about starting in music, producing after his bandmates left San Diego, the sound, studio versus live, Japan, and what comes next.

91X FM: Local Break (2020) · Local Break feature: starting out in Encinitas, and the Surfdog mailer room with 91X on in the background.

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/.

Distromono: Heart-to-heart (2025) · A conversation about burrito voice notes and Alright.

Start Track: A Very Doobert Christmas, Vol. 1 (Introducing + 3 Qs) (2023-12-18) · Filip Zemčík intro plus a 3-question Q&A on the holiday EP: his dissect-and-rebuild approach to the records he grew up on, the nerve illness that turned him from guitarist to composer, and a Storyworth-prompted dream of a symposium with Socrates and Plato.

VENTS Magazine (2021-04-16) · They talk about Don't Worry, Big Hug, Encinitas, and not playing live yet.

Purple Melon: Chatterbox (2017-08) · From the early one-man-dog-band years: Self Realization Gardens, religion creeps, and the monthly singles.

FEiN

Most of the FEiN coverage is premieres and profiles. A full interview with both of them is hard to find.

Fresh Beats 365: “Tellin’ stories, making cool sounds and shit” (2016-04-09) · Tom Roden’s April 9, 2016 interview covers the USC carpool origin, the “#Grownupz” Spotify surge, Little Little Homes, quotes from Sculptor on LA body image, Don't You as a summary of the sound, DBSRDS, and a habanero threshold in the middle of the interview.

Features with quotes

I Heart Moosiq: Lucky You premiere (2018) · A look back at the #Grownupz premiere, the Spotify Viral 50 and Hype Machine placements, and quotes from Lucky You.

ReverbNation Blog: FEiN interview (2017-01-27) · A Q&A with Luke and Brandon. They cover #Grownupz past a million Spotify streams, more than 50,000 playlists, the Viral 50 in the US, Canada, and Mexico, and Hype Machine. Luke’s line on success is “Hashtags and the letter z. #DragonBallZ.” They also talk about Christofi and The Disco, writing with a fourth person, and the biweekly singles that became SPOOKED.

Fresh Beats 365: Little Little Homes EP review (2016-03-10) · Tom Roden, March 10, 2016, calls the EP a big success: a melancholy indie-electropop teaser he compares to Foster the People’s Torches. He writes about “Sculptor” as image-obsessed social commentary, “#Grownupz” as bubblegum, and the outro’s vocal dissolve.

BMI Indie Spotlight: FEiN (2016-09-14) · BMI’s profile covers the pronunciation, the Southern California duo, USC and Tiny Giant, Little Homes, and “#Grownupz” on Spotify’s U.S. Viral 50.

Us then (2016) · Video interview from the Little Homes era.

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) · In December 2015 the charts had it at #13 among non-remixes, #20 on the popular chart, and #2 on Twitter, with more than 30,000 plays. The figures are from a FEiN Facebook post and the Hype Machine chart.

Indie Shuffle: #Grownupz (2015-12-13) · Jason Grishkoff on the USC duo, and on “#Grownupz” as the track that opened Issue #1 in August 2014.

I Heart Moosiq: #Grownupz Spotify U.S. Viral top 10 · Notes that #Grownupz reached Spotify’s U.S. viral top 10.

Luke F. Walton

Advize · Career interview as associate director of marketing at NAMM.

Site archive (2)

Full transcripts hosted here when the original outlet is gone or unstable.

Apple Music: In the Artist's Words

Scoobert Doobert artist-profile Q&A

Scoobert Doobert · 2026

Undated Apple Music artist-profile Q&A with Scoobert Doobert, copied from the US storefront on September 25, 2026: elementary-school Lion King, three favorite albums, Feels So Good, learning Japanese in the hospital, and producing CHAI.

FEiN Q&A (Little Homes era)

Superpowers, boats, and red rocks — Luke Walton & Brandon Woodward

FEiN · 2016

Archived pre–Little Homes interview: telekinesis vs one-punch, house-river gigs, song-a-month rollout, Taj Ma-Small, and the robotic-toilet story.