Music

Luke F. Walton is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, mixer, and recording engineer. Scoobert Doobert is his primary music project. He is not the NBA coach.

On Spotify and YouTube, Walton's music has more than 50 million plays. Luke F. Walton has been commercially releasing music since 2007. His most notable works are released as FEiN or Scoobert Doobert. FEiN, his duo with Brandon Woodward, started in 2014. Scoobert Doobert began in 2017. In 2014 and 2015 he played guitar for Lara Johnston on tours supporting The Doobie Brothers and Gregg Allman.

On February 13, 2016, FEiN's “#Grownupz” hit #4 on Spotify's US Viral 50. Their subsequent 2016 album, Little Homes, earned a BMI Indie Spotlight. And the follow-up single “LOVED” has more than 9 million Spotify streams. Their single “Infant” was featured on Spotify's New Music Friday on May 2, 2019. A new FEiN LP will be released in 2027, mixed by Luke F. Walton and co-produced, written, and performed by Walton and Woodward. Grammy-winning mastering engineer Jett Galindo (Billie Eilish, Pink Floyd) is mastering the album.

For Scoobert Doobert, Walton has written, recorded, arranged, produced, and mixed more than 250 songs. His single “I’m an Idiot” was featured on Spotify’s global New Music Friday on September 3, 2021, where MANA and KANA from the band CHAI discovered him. Walton speaks Japanese, and from there, developed a career working with artists in Japan.

The Scoobert Doobert remix of CHAI’s “Miracle” is on Sub Pop’s WINK TOGETHER (2022). That year he produced CHAI’s “WHOLE,” the theme for the NHK drama Koisenu Futari, and sound-produced “MY DREAM,” the theme for the film The Fish Tale, along with other songs for CHAI. He also played guitar, bass, and percussion on the records. For Shingo Murakami of SUPER EIGHT (Kanjani Eight), he produced 「だれかおるやろ feat. CHAI」. Murakami sings and raps on the song as TAKATSU-KING, the theme of his series on NTT Docomo’s Lemino, which premiered in April 2023.

He co-wrote and co-produced bed’s “Kare Wa 3.0,” the opening theme for the Fuji TV drama Heart Attack (2025). He then mixed OKAME’s 2026 debut album, MANA and KANA’s project after CHAI broke up, and their later single 言いわけきかせて. He produced and co-composed KOMAGOME’s “WE CAN’T DOLL” with MANA and KANA, which Rolling Stone Japan covered. He mixed applied communications’ applied communications bites the big one, which Bandcamp Daily named Album of the Day.

He hosts Love Music More, a weekly podcast and occasional newsletter on the craft, philosophy, and history of music. New episodes come out on Tuesdays. Spotify for Creators ranked it in the top 10% of all podcasts on Spotify in 2025. Guests have included Andrew Scheps (Adele, U2, Hozier), Craig Bauer (Janet Jackson, Lupe Fiasco, Destiny’s Child), and Jay Jay French (Twisted Sister).

Walton's songs have been featured in the following films, TV shows, and commercials:

• Koisenu Futari (NHK) CHAI’s “WHOLE” is the theme song for this NHK drama.
• The Fish Tale CHAI’s “MY DREAM” is the theme song for this film.
• Lemino 「だれかおるやろ feat. CHAI」 is the theme for Shingo Murakami’s series on NTT Docomo’s Lemino. He sings and raps it as TAKATSU-KING. The series premiered in April 2023.
• Heart Attack (Fuji TV) bed’s “Kare Wa 3.0” is the opening theme for this Fuji TV drama.
• きょうもカクレチカクカ・ビン OKAME’s “言いわけきかせて” is the theme song for this short anime.
• Guitar Center He played guitar on camera in three commercials and bass in one.
• Coors Light "Can't Imagine Feeling Better" was in a national Canadian TV commercial.
• Lexus L/Certified FEiN made a bespoke recording for the commercial.
• rhode Instrumental versions of Getting Easier and Chasing the Sunset were used across social posts and ads.
• The Fosters (Freeform) Caden Jester and FEiN were featured in the Prom episode.
• Tell Me Lies (Hulu) FEiN’s “Doin' It Right” was in the first episode of the series.
• Good Trouble (Freeform) FEiN’s music was featured on the show.
• Pantene Exist Elsewhere’s “Can’t Fall” was featured in a national ad with Zooey Deschanel.

More at Press

Scoobert Doobert

Scoobert Doobert is Walton's primary music project, a project he founded and owns, with the name on his records since My Friend, Scoobert (2017). The music is indie and chill pop, self-produced at his private home studio in San Diego, Micasa Studios, and released through Beformer, his label and artist-services partner. Nine studio albums are out, along with the live album Live from the Void. The current cycle is the MÖBIUS cycle, four albums: MÖB and I are already out, US comes out in January 2027, and the last album, MÖBIUS, is planned, with no date announced.

Fun fact: Max Horwich published a chapter in the Institute of Network Cultures' Critical Meme Reader, looking at the project from the outside, as memetic production rather than a character.

Hub·Site·Catalog·Albums·Songs

Love Music More

Love Music More is a weekly podcast and occasional newsletter on the craft, philosophy, and history of music. Love Music More is hosted by Luke F. Walton, co-owned by Luke F. Walton and Beformer, and produced by Beformer. New episodes come out on Tuesdays, with guests that have included the mix engineers Andrew Scheps and Craig Bauer. The show's home is lovemusicmorepodcast.com; the full archive and guest index are at Love Music More, and the newsletter is on Substack. Sponsorship is on the show site.

Hub·Guests·Spotify·Apple Podcasts·Sponsor

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.

Collaborators·Muso.AI·IMDb·AllMusic

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.

Horwich·サンレコ·Rolling Stone Japan·BMI · FEiN·91X studio·all press

He interned at Surfdog Records in San Diego with 91X FM playing in the background. Years later the station played his records: Moving To Canada was #4 on the Loudspeaker Top 5 for September 2020, and Don't Worry hit #1 on the Loudspeaker Top 5 in April 2021 and landed at #90 on the Top 91 Songs of 2021. The spin notes are on the song pages.

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

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, newest first, is the photo archive. FEiN has its own sample.

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

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. His first day on NAMM staff was Friday, November 2, 2018. A lobby screen read “NAMM & MoMM welcome Luke Walton.” MoMM is the Museum of Making Music, at NAMM headquarters in Carlsbad.

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.

Trade columns on Writing

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 2011–12 Thornton catalogue opens with a rehearsal photo captioned, from left, popular music students Peter Johnson, Eric Radloff, and Luke Walton. A printed program for the University Chorus Holiday Concert (November 21, 2010, United University Church) lists him as a tenor, on the same roster as Rozzi Crane, Annie Dingwall (printed Anna Dingwall), Barry Harris, and Eric Radloff. The projects from those years, including Checkpoint Six, are in the catalog.

FEiN is Walton and Brandon Woodward's alternative-pop duo, formed at USC Thornton. A new 13-song LP will be released in 2027, mixed by Walton and co-produced, written, and performed by Walton and Woodward. Jett Galindo is mastering it. The record, history, and photos are on the FEiN hub.

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

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. Luke and Brandon Woodward left before they recorded and released #Grownupz (August 25, 2014) and became FEiN. Noah Benardout continued Exist Elsewhere. Sonicbids (March 10, 2014) names Noah Benardout, Elijah Wood, Josh Jaramillo, and Mark Pacificar. Luke Walton's account: that lineup replaced him and Brandon. The album page has the rest.

Credited to Scoobert Doobert, he produced and narrated an audiobook of Plato's Apology (2023, published by 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.

Luke F. Walton's personal channel: MUSiAN (2017), the *Six Months to Make It* clips he left public, 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 uploads·MUSiAN (Apple Podcasts)·MUSiAN playlist·Little Homes — FEiN (my band!) (16 tracks)

Six Months to Make It (January–July 2009)

Coast News documents 21 episodes. Episode 1, “Driving Test,” was uploaded January 12, 2009. Luke Walton unpublished the rest. They exist; they are not public. Episode 11 and a few related clips remain on @lukefwalton.

• Episode 11: E Street Cafe · Superstition, Zach Freeman on bongos
• Getting Into the USC Popular Music Program · from the Six Months to Make It vlog
• Love Story (Taylor Swift acoustic cover) · uploaded March 21, 2009 · national press · Swift never responded

MUSiAN (2017)

Four episodes (2017). All six YouTube parts are on @lukefwalton (Episodes 1–3 split across two uploads each). The show ended; its successor, Music Appreciation 101, was later renamed Love Music More.

• Episode 1, Part 1: Okudaxij and Wolfy
• Episode 1, Part 2: Okudaxij and Wolfy
• Episode 2, Part 1: Rees Finley and J.VEN
• Episode 2, Part 2: Rees Finley and J.VEN
• Episode 3, Part 1: Anna Schulze and Lia Woodward
• Episode 3, Part 2: Anna Schulze and Lia Woodward

Early solo & TV

• Heart in Hand · 2008 EP title track
• Preschool · *Just A Friend* EP
• Dead End Love — Luke Walton on KUSI
• Who Needs Tears — Luke Walton on NBC
• Top 10 Acoustic Mashup — Peter Lee Johnson & Luke Walton · Nov 29, 2010 · Luke Walton Band · Johnson violin · Campbell bass · Shrewsbury drums · Billboard top-10 mashup · [/with/peter-lee-johnson/](/with/peter-lee-johnson/)
• Jay Sean — Do You Remember (Grandma Version) · Feb 8, 2010 · Luke Walton Band · acoustic violin + Thor (Campbell) · great-grandma convalescent home (same as [/photos/luke-walton-great-grandma-convalescent-home.jpg](/photos/luke-walton-great-grandma-convalescent-home.jpg)) · [/with/peter-lee-johnson/](/with/peter-lee-johnson/)

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).

• Death Note — L's Theme A (guitar) · Eyepatch era · 2011
• Fix You — Coldplay (acoustic cover) · Eyepatch era · 2011
• Dragon Ball Z Animetal (medley) · Eyepatch era · 2011
• Skrillex — Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites (shred guitar cover) · Eyepatch era · 2011
• 16 Christmas Songs in 4 Minutes (acoustic mashup) · Eyepatch era · 2011
• David Guetta ft. Usher — Without You (guitar cover) · Eyepatch era · 2011
• Owl City — Fireflies (guitar cover) · Eyepatch era · 2011
• Scuttle Buttin' — Stevie Ray Vaughan (guitar cover) · Eyepatch era · 2011
• Crossroads — Cream (guitar cover) · Nov 30, 2011 · Eyepatch era

Covers & other uploads (26 public)

• Love Story — Taylor Swift (acoustic cover / date video) · March 2009 · 300k+ views · national press (San Diego Reader, NBC New York, Orlando Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune) · Swift never responded
• Dynamite — Taio Cruz (acoustic cover)
• Superstition — Stevie Wonder (acoustic cover)