Gas Station Robber

About Gas Station Robber

Chris Holbrook, Craig Conard, Nicholas Emerson, Nicholas Conner and Steve Poon are Gas Station Robber. Their music has often been compared to Snow Patrol, The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie. W Chris Holbrook, Craig Conard, Nicholas Emerson, Nicholas Conner and Steve Poon are Gas Station Robber. Their music has often been compared to Snow Patrol, The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie. While their music embodies a few of these elements, they maintain their own very distinct sound. GSR’s music has been featured on MTV's Real World Brooklyn and Cancun.

Chris Holbrook grew up in San Antonio, Texas. He hails from a creative family; his mother runs a dance studio, and his brother is an actor on Broadway. Although constantly exposed to the arts as a child, he got a fairly late start in music at age 20, when he first picked up a guitar. At 22, after a move to Los Angeles, he began to focus strictly on singing and songwriting. He and Craig met soon after, and a few years later began GSR.

Craig Conard is from Kansas City, and learned to play guitar there. In late 2001, he moved to Los Angeles and began a career in audio engineering. He worked at The Sound Factory as an assistant engineer, and eventually left to start making records on his own. A few months later he met Chris Holbrook, started a rock band, and eventually morphed it into GSR. Currently, Craig works with