Luke F. Walton
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Luke F. Walton

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Scoobert Doobert is the recording name of Luke Francis Walton. Not the NBA coach of the same name: FAQ · Press kit · Photos.

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  10. Music industry (NAMM)
  11. USC Thornton
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  13. The Luke Walton Band
  14. Exist Elsewhere
  15. Apology audiobook
  16. @lukefwalton YouTube

Luke F. Walton records as Scoobert Doobert. He writes, plays, produces, and mixes most of his own records. The Japanese band CHAI heard his single "I'm an Idiot," and a remix followed.

After that remix, "Miracle (Scoobert Doobert Remix)" on Sub Pop's WINK TOGETHER (2022), he produced "WHOLE," the theme for the NHK drama Koisenu Futari, and "MY DREAM," the theme for the film The Fish Tale. Since then he has co-written and co-produced bed's "Kare Wa 3.0", the opening theme for the Fuji TV drama Heart Attack, mixed OKAME's debut album, and produced for KOMAGOME (Rolling Stone Japan covered it). The rest of the CHAI story is at With CHAI.

Before Scoobert Doobert he was half of FEiN with Brandon Woodward, and before that he fronted The Luke Walton Band. He hosts Love Music More, a newsletter and podcast on the craft, philosophy, and history of music.

Sync & placements

Songs from the catalog synced to real commercials, film, and TV.

More at Press

Scoobert Doobert is Walton's main recording project: indie and chill pop, mostly self-produced from home since 2006. The catalog runs from his early records through Big Hug and KŌAN into MÖBIUS, a four-part album cycle still rolling out. He has registered close to 300 songs with BMI since 2014, and writes about many of them at Song meanings.

Max Horwich's chapter in the Institute of Network Cultures' Critical Meme Reader looks at the project from the outside, as memetic production rather than a character.

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Love Music More is Walton's newsletter and podcast on the craft, philosophy, and history of music. New episodes come out on Tuesdays, with guests that have included the mix engineers Andrew Scheps and Craig Bauer. The full archive and guest index are at Love Music More.

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Production & credits

He has produced and mixed for dozens of other artists, well beyond his own catalog. Those credits are indexed on Muso.AI, IMDb, and AllMusic, and the people themselves are on the Collaborators page.

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Press

The music has picked up press in Japan and the US, from an academic chapter on internet meme culture to trade coverage of FEiN's debut album.

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Selected videos
91X radio

He interned at Surfdog Records in San Diego with 91X FM playing in the background. Years later the station played his records: Don't Worry hit #1 on the Loudspeaker Top 5 in April 2021 and landed at #90 on the Top 91 of 2021. The spin notes are on the song page.

Interviews

Walton has talked about the music in interviews across podcasts and outlets. A selection is linked below, with the full index at All interviews.

91X FM: Top 91 of 2021 Rock Da Fuq Out indiemono: Banana Interview egoFM: Scoobert Doobert bei egoFM egoFM: Bier, Burritos und Marihuana egoFM: egoFM Privataudienz all interviews

Photos

These photos are here for press use, since a plain search for "Luke Walton" mostly turns up the NBA coach. They cover the 91X studio, egoFM, OKAME, CHAI, and more of the catalog era. The full set is in the press kit, and the FEiN years have their own gallery.

More photos are on Instagram at @scoobertdoobert.pizza, including one with the Heart Attack opening theme single.

Music industry (NAMM)

Walton first fell in love with the local music store at American Music Store in Encinitas, where he studied guitar with Jeff Moore as a child. Bud Whitcomb is the founder and former master guitar technician of American Music Exchange (AMX Music), with over 40 years of experience in instrument repair and setup in the San Diego/Encinitas area. He joined NAMM staff in 2018.

From 2018 to 2024 Walton worked inside NAMM’s music-products and pro-audio world, eventually as Associate Director of Marketing for The NAMM Show. He kept touring, recording, and mixing music the whole time, and used that vantage point to evaluate gear and interview the people who make and use it, for trade and public audiences.

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USC Thornton

His USC Thornton years were a blur of bands, sessions, house shows, short-lived projects, and road trips. Some lineups lasted a week, some made it onto stages, and some disappeared before they ever had a name. He was in the inaugural class of the popular-music program. The projects from those years, including Checkpoint 6, are in the catalog.

FEiN

FEiN was Walton's alternative-pop duo with Brandon Woodward, formed at USC Thornton; their 2016 album Little Homes earned a BMI Indie Spotlight, and "#Grownupz" reached #4 on Spotify's US Viral 50. History and photos are on the FEiN hub.

The Luke Walton Band

His San Diego alt-rock group from the high-school years, which self-released Goodbye/Hello in 2010. The story continues in the catalog.

Exist Elsewhere

At USC he played guitar and co-wrote in Exist Elsewhere, whose 2013 EP 413 includes "Can't Fall," later synced to a national Pantene spot. The band won the 2013 Macworld/iWorld iNDIE iNNOVATION Championship and opened for Little Feat. They played "Tokyo" and "Unwhole" on The Artie Lange Show. The album page has the rest.

Apology by Plato

Under the Scoobert Doobert name he produced and narrated an audiobook of Plato's Apology (2023, Beformer), the first in the series Plato's Dialogues as Read by Scoobert Doobert: the full text, read straight, with his own reflections at the end. It is listed in the catalog and at Barnes & Noble.

@lukefwalton YouTube

Luke F. Walton's personal channel: MUSiAN (2017), the surviving *Six Months to Make It* uploads, eyepatch-era guitar covers (2011), early solo and TV clips, and Luke Walton Band collabs. Scoobert music videos and the Love Music More video feed live on @ScoobertDoobertBurrito instead.

All uploadsMUSiAN (Apple Podcasts)MUSiAN playlistLittle Homes — FEiN (my band!) (16 tracks)

Six Months to Make It (January–July 2009)

Coast News documents 21 episodes. Only Episode 11 remains public on @lukefwalton; other episode uploads appear offline or removed.

MUSiAN (2017)

Four episodes (2017). All six YouTube parts are on @lukefwalton (Episodes 1–3 split across two uploads each).

Early solo & TV

Eyepatch era covers (2011)

The eyepatch era: USC Popular Music guitar covers from before Exist Elsewhere. Photos: [/photos/luke-walton-eyepatch-era-acoustic-2011.jpg](/photos/luke-walton-eyepatch-era-acoustic-2011.jpg), [/photos/luke-walton-eyepatch-era-onstage-2011.jpg](/photos/luke-walton-eyepatch-era-onstage-2011.jpg).

Covers & other uploads (26 public)

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