Walter Etc

Walter Etc. is the brainchild of Dustin Cole Hayes, who has been creating music (originally as Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra), writing, videos, and art for over a decade. Based in Ventura, CA he co-runs the label and art collective Making New Enemies with Milk Flud, and has worked alongside Jeff Rosenstock and Ian Farmer (Slaughter Beach, Dog / Modern Baseball) in the studio. Walter’s newest album “There There” (self-released via Making New Enemies, May 2021) showcases the band’s return to a home-recorded and self-produced approach. With a revolving door of band members and a foray into different genres, it is Hayes’s gift for lyricism and DIY ethos that holds all of his projects together in one cohesive canon.