ABOUT
ABOUT US
ZACH KNELL
Vocals • Guitar
SAMUEL SHEPPARD
Piano • Guitar
KEITH LAMBSON
Drums
SOREN BUCHERT
Bass
Formed in Roseburg, Oregon by Zach Knell, Samuel Sheppard, Keith Lambson, and Soren Buchert, ‘Roseburg’ is an alternative rock band now based in Utah.
The quartet have released EP ‘Heaven vs. Hollywood’ as well as their debut full length album ‘Righteous Punk’.
In December of 2016, Knell and Sheppard were both serving as missionaries in the small town of Roseburg. The night they met they wrote the beginnings of what became the band’s second single ‘Identity Prices’. The two continued communicating via handwritten letters (mission rules) for the remainder of their service, forming plans to start a band when they returned home.
Knell met fellow missionary Keith Lambson a few months later further south in Medford. They wrote a lot of music over that summer, including a song they referred to as ‘AU’, which they recorded a demo of at a local studio in exchange for mowing the lawn. That song would become the band’s debut single ‘Stay Golden’.
In 2018 Knell, Sheppard, and Lambson’s service was complete and they moved to Knell’s hometown of Provo, UT where they immediately began work on their first record. That EP, which they named ‘Heaven vs. Hollywood’, was heavily influenced by their unique yet difficult experience as teenage missionaries living away from home, and was mostly made up of songs they wrote at that time. The 5 songs were recorded over just a few weeks at June Audio in Provo with engineer and producer Scott Wiley (The Killers, Neon Trees), and were released to immediate virality thanks in part to a video detailing the band’s origin story as well as a music video starring social media stars and friends of the band Dylan Jordan and Summer McKeen.
In January, 2019, while the band was busily touring the west coast, they added bass player Soren Buchert, cousin of Sheppard to the lineup and released the single ‘Wave’, which Knell wrote as a 16-year-old for his friend’s band ‘The Atomics’. It became Roseburg’s biggest hit to date, receiving extensive radio play, Spotify editorial playlists rotation, and even landed them a spot on the cover of Alternative Press magazine.
The success of the band attracted ‘Sleeping With Sirens’ singer Kellin Quinn, who grew up in Medford and wanted to support the band that formed in and near his hometown. He became a mentor and even featured on the single ‘RIP’.
Roseburg’s debut album ‘Righteous Punk’ was released on February 18, 2020, the band’s 2-year-anniversary, alongside dates for a crowd funded national headlining tour. Due to the COVID pandemic the tour was cancelled and the band went on an extended hiatus.
Between 2020-2022 members of the band released solo projects. Knell released EP ‘The Boy in White’, Lambson released album ‘Roadtrip’ under the name ‘Dryggs’, and Sheppard released album ‘Endangered Species’, a record he wrote with his dad and collaborated on with the whole band under the name ‘YesterKid’.
Roseburg has over 10 millions all-time listens.