Rock

There is only one word needed to describe this channel. Rock. There’s the hard kind, the hair kind, some punk kind, a dose of the classic kind, the occasional soft kind, the underground kind and the indie kind. Here you’ll find all kinds of ROCK. Listen to the great rock music you know best from the eighties, nineties and today: from Guns and Roses, AC/DC, and many of the hair bands of the eighties, to Nickelback, Shinedown, and more.

Rob Robson’s life changed listening to a late night radio broadcast of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s. “After that final note of A Day In The Life, I was hooked. I knew what I wanted to do.” He cancelled plans for university, enrolled in broadcast school, and six months later was spinning 45s as an all-night jock in Vancouver. Over 30 years later, his passion for music is as strong as ever.

Along the way, Rob has been instrumental in discovering and championing some of the biggest names in Canadian rock. Whether programming demo tapes from a group of Kelowna high school students called the Grapes Of Wrath, sitting on Matthew Good’s living room floor picking singles and writing the bio for his first album, or explaining to Chad Kroeger what a “hook” is and why Nickelback would need one to have a hit record, Rob has always had an eye for the next big thing. “I love looking for new bands.

The future is what it’s all about, and if I can help in some way, that’s just good karma.” Awarded over 50 gold and platinum albums and with 7 national radio programming titles to his credit, Rob has been with Galaxie since 2002 when he and his family moved to the wilderness of BC’s Sunshine Coast. “I live in the middle of a forest with the bears, deer, and cougars, and get to listen to music all day. Life is good.”