Experience what Frank Gabriel of South Jersey Insider Magazine called "One of the best bar bands we’ve ever seen at the Jersey shore!"
Featuring a song list ranging from 80's favorites Bryan Adams, and Rick Springfield, to pop/rock like Bon Jovi and Def Leppard to harder edged music from Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots, plus mainstream, classic Aerosmith, Billy Idol, and Van Halen, to todays music like Kid Rock and Finger Eleven, this foursome offers something for almost any fan of rock music.

What you'll like best about these genre-hopping sets is their sense of manic energy. Most acts take a few seconds, sometimes even a minute or so, between tunes. No Pressure offers an almost constant barrage of hard-hitting audio, without a lot of time for posturing and style points.

The band consists of lead vocalist Mike LaGuardia, bassist/backing vocalist Tom Branella, drummer Brian McKenna, and lead guitar/backing vocalist Scott Schenker. While all the members have extensive musical backgrounds, Branella, McKenna and Schenker are particularly notable as former members of well received The Bleeding Hearts, one of our area's best original rock acts from the mid-1980’s.

 Mike LaGuardia has been singing all his life and started performing on keyboards at age 11. After ten years of formal training and countless years experience in bands as a lead vocalist, keyboardist, bassist and percussionist - he has finally found his home as No Pressure's frontman. Michael's musical history has taken him everywhere - from small bars and nightclubs throughout the South Jersey and Philadelphia area to performing Elton John's classic "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" for over one thousand people in Atlantic City. Along the way, he has performed with hundreds of bands - Cinema, Menagerie, Naughty Boy, Sideline, CreepShow, Twitch, Soup Kitchen, The Lizards, Barefoot Mona, The Riverside Band, Enigma Machine, Square One, The McCollum Brothers, and Revolver just to name a few. Michael also is a professional DJ and solo performer at local bars and restaurants. 


 Scott Schenker has been a veteran in the local music scene for over 20 years. Inspired by the hard rockin’ guitar sounds of bands like “Van Halen” and “Aerosmith”, he began playing guitar in high school with his friend Danny Eyer. Scott and Danny started a band in 1980 called “DUSK” which evolved into “FAIR WARNING”, With the addition of Matt Curran on drums the band got out of the garage and into the clubs. Scott has been involved with both cover and original projects through out the years. While a member of a local, original band called “THE BLEEDING HEARTS”, Scott opened for many national and regional acts including “THE HOOTERS”, “ROBERT HAZZARD”, “THE ROMANTICS”, “HANOI ROCKS”, and “JOAN JETT’. “THE BLEEDING HEARTS” also received airplay on local radio station WMGM (Rock 104) and WMMR out of Philadelphia, PA (93.3 FM)

 Tom Branella has been playing bass for over 20 years and has played in some of the best area clubs. In that time, Tom has been involved with both cover and original projects.
A founding member of local original band “THE BLEEDING HEARTS”, Tom has opened for many national and regional acts including: "ROBERT HAZARD", "HANOI ROCKS", and "JOAN JETT", just to name a few. Tom joined No Pressure in the winter of 2004. Tom also plays midi synth pedals, which helps to add a more full sound to the band.


 Brian McKenna started playing the drums at the age of 8. He has played in many area bands including “ORPHAN ANNIE”, “IMPULSE”, TRIPLE X”, “ALTOONA WORKS”, “ALISTER CROWLEY”, and “THE BLEEDING HEARTS” just to name a few. Brian has also opened for many regional and national acts. Brian is a founding member of “NO PRESSURE” and is the “driving force” behind the band.




Larry Town started playing keyboards in 1975, In 12th grade he joined the band "RACE", they were the house band during the winter and summer of 1980 at the world famous "Tony Mart's" in Somers Point NJ, after "RACE" Larry joined "The Limit", an (Apollo Artist's band) and played throughout the Tri-State area. Larry is also a former member of the local original band "The Redtones", they played all over NJ, PA, NY and DE areas. In 1989 Larry ventured out to California and joined the band "POWER", they played all of the big LA area clubs like "The ROXY", "The Troubadour", "Goodies" and "FM Station" just to name a few.
Larry also recorded a 13 song CD with th singer from his 80's band RACE entitled "Welcome to Crashtown", He has a song featured on the compilation album by Shut Eye Records "This is Alt Country Vol 1" called "MY TOWN". Larry is also the owner of LTD Stage Lighting and will be providing his amazing lighting talents at some NO PRESSURE shows in the future!