No Pressure are an interesting band. Parker Cannon, frontman for big-deal pop-punkers the Story So Far, started No Pressure as a side project during COVID, and they’ve since become a big deal on the hardcore festival circuit despite not really being a hardcore band. Cannon’s bandmates mostly come from the hardcore world, and the group plays hardcore shows and records for hardcore labels, but they mostly specialize in a slightly amped-up version of the kind of pop-punk that Cannon makes with his other band. In making music just a little more raw and scrappy than what he does most of the time, Cannon has hit on something.
