Rich Webb

* Eclectic alt rock from Melbourne, Australia
* Album RIGHT! out now
* Winner of the 2019 Alt-Country Album of the Year in the Independent Music Awards
* Lead track 'Let it Rain' also took out the 2019 Alt-Country Single of the Year
* Check out a string of fantastic videos on YouTube

"Evocative of singer-songwriter legends such as Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen, “Love Someone” is a beautifully spacious track which utilises soft electric guitar and a warm trumpet solo to deliver one simple message: all humans deserve to live peacefully, whoever they are, and wherever they’re from." - Rolling Stone

“The fast paced, gun slinger sound makes ‘Let it Rain’ the perfect outlaw track” -Music News Today

“A drive through Route 66 in a 1976 Eldorado Cadillac whilst the sun sets” -Rock on the Radar

“Le Rayon Vert is a masterpiece that captivates from the first to the last note – it’s a gripping mix of desert-hot Americana, atmospheric indie, and elegantly rumbling garage rock” -Country Music News International

"Music for weary ears, tainted hearts and those who just so happen to live in a wooden cabin," Beat Magazine 9/10

“Webb’s voice takes the most emotional role – alone his earthy, scratchy timbre would be enough to fill a dozen albums” -Soultrain

“Stoner caught our ear with its noir verses and power pop on codeine chorus. It’s lush and swooning in the way its glides and soars at different times” –Post To Wire

“Since 2007, Webb has been delighting his fans worldwide with this quaint mixture that hardly any other artist has perfected so well” -Metalglory

“Like John Mellencamp on drugs” -Darkstars

“Le Rayon Vert is an album for those who are cosmopolitan, like to have variety and want to chill every now and then” -Crossfire Metal

“At a later hour, after an eventful party evening, it’s just perfect listening” -Metalogy

About new album Le Rayon Vert

Le Rayon Vert is the new album from Melbourne’s Rich Webb, further exploring his offbeat tales with a house band straight out of a modern gothic pot-boiler. Rich’s rasping vocals and sweet melodies riffs and will drag you kicking and screaming on a road trip of the band’s own creation. If it feels cinematic, it’s because it’s meant to be:

“The bulk of the album was recorded in France which definitely influenced our thinking, and Le Rayon Vert is a French film we liked way back when. The premise behind it is that if you see the green ray as the sun goes down you will be able to read the mind of the person you are with, and they will be able to read yours.

“It’s like looking into an apartment block and being able to see eleven individual stories happening at the same time – we set out to shed a little light on each and to try and reach a level of understanding along the way.”

Le Rayon Vert was recorded by David Odlum (formerly of The Frames) in France last year and by Arno Jordan and Wolfgang Manns in Germany. It was produced and mixed by multiple BAFTA winner Howard Bargroff, known not only for his music work but also for his film and TV successes on shows such as Sherlock, The Night Manager and Ripper Street. Mastering was by Pete Lyman (Chris Stapleton/Tom Waits) at Infrasonic Mastering, Nashville.

First single is the fabulous Let it Rain, a jostling, vibrant affair with styling guitars, distorted banjo and theremin. It’s about wanting an absolute deluge right now to wash away this all-pervading crap we are in. The follow-up is Stoner, which comes packing a beautiful Coen Brothers-esq video shot in one of Melbourne’s music institutions, The Thornbury Theatre.

The band is back from 15 dates in Germany and Switzerland and starts Australian shows from next month.

Previous Rich Webb release The Girl Who Laughed Too Much scored 4* in Rolling Stone, while follow-up Overboard topped that in Europe.

Rich Webb has delivered roaring shows from the large (Amsterdam’s Melkweg and Germany’s Saarbrucken Castle), to the small (and superbly elegant Café Vinyl, Germany and London’s What’s Cookin’), to venues less travelled (KAMA, Kampot, Cambodia and Turning Point at the top of a German mountain somewhere).

You may have seen them recently in Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, the UK, Australia, the Netherlands or Cambodia, and we doubt you would forget it if you had.

Make sure you catch them this time too.

“An electric blend of Americana and garage rock, with a sprinkle of country rock with some scorching riffs” – PureGrainAudio