NO RESOLVE UPS DRIVER BY DAY, #1 CHARTING ROCK STARS BY NIGHT

April 1, 2022 — What a difference a pandemic makes…

Michigan rockers NO RESOLVE–Oscar Pegorraro (singer), Matty Shea (guitars), Jason Hatmaker (guitars), and Dennis Patterson (bass)—transformed their lives and completely reinvented themselves during the past two years. Since November 2020, after releasing their own songs for years prior, they’ve been releasing Rock covers of classic Pop songs by Adele, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, and others, all while Pegorraro works as a UPS driver during the day.

Their latest single, “Surface Pressure” from the Oscar-winning film Encanto, wracked up over 30,000 pre-saves and the video trailer has garnered over 107,000 views upon the band’s first announcement about it on Tuesday, March 22. It’s finally available today on all digital outlets and the band’s official YouTube page.

“The music industry has changed completely,” observes NO RESOLVE frontman Oscar Pegorraro, “and the power is now in the viral creator’s hands, rather than the record label. Look at us–we’re an independent band who have over one million monthly listeners on Spotify, are regularly charting on Billboard, and every new song release of ours goes to the top of the iTunes charts. We’ve already gone the traditional music route of putting out a full-length album and two EPs of original material, but now we’re going viral on every streaming platform out there.”

NO RESOLVE signed a multi-album deal with Noise Machine (founded by Grammy-nominated, Platinum-selling producers B.J. Perry and John Pregler) in 2020 with “Never Back Down” as their first song release. Their debut EP, A NEW BEGINNING, was released in 2012, followed by 2013’s smash “Get Me Out” single, which the Detroit Red Wings played during playoff games that season and currently has over 18 million streams on YouTube. Dragon Ball Super used the song in a video for “Goku Vs. Jiren,” which has over 54 million views. Their first full-length album, UNITY, dropped in 2017 with the hot singles “Love Me To Death” and “What You Deserve” that received heavy airplay on SiriusXM’s Octane channel, and it debuted at #10 on Billboard’s “Heatseekers Albums” chart, #45 on the iTunes Rock chart, and it was highlighted on Amazon’s Hot New Releases.

In November 2020 when the world was still in lockdown, the band decided to change things up a bit and record a cover of Adele’s “Set Fire To The Rain,” which was played in heavy rotation on SiriusXM’s Octane channel, and has since garnered over 4.3 million views since its release on YouTube. The rest is history.

Over the next months, the band went on to turn Pop hits into Rock hits by Morgan Wallen (“Broadway Girls,” which reached #1 on Billboard’s “Hard Rock Digital Song Sales” chart), Adele (“Easy On Me,” which reached #2 on Billboard’s “Hard Rock Digital Song Sales” chart), Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, The Kid LAROI/Justin Bieber, and songs from The Greatest Showman and Moana soundtracks. In October 2021, their joint cover of Garth Brooks’ “The Thunder Rolls” with labelmates State of Mine went to #1 on Billboard’s “Hot Hard Rock Songs,” “Rock Digital Song Sales” and “Hard Rock Digital Song Sales” charts, and it even got a thumbs up from Garth himself during one of his quarantine Q&As.  As a result of all of the cover song love, NO RESOLVE has over 92 million streams and over 1.7 million monthly listeners on Spotify.

While the band has an avowed knack for creating vibrant original material dating back well over a decade, Pegorraro felt NO RESOLVE could do something more to move the needle even further. “I’d been wanting to do covers since 2011, so it was a no-brainer to me,” he confirms. So, what’s NO RESOLVE’s “secret covers sauce,” so to speak? According to Pegorraro, the aural recipe is really quite simple: “It’s the sense of creating something that feels familiar but at the same time brings it to a genre that needs rejuvenation.”

Check out the band’s previous releases, with even more songs that can be seen here:

Garth Brooks’ “The Thunder Rolls” (with State of Mine):

(over 6.9 million views)

Morgan Wallen’s “Broadway Girls”:

(over 190k views since its March 10 release)

Adele’s “Easy On Me” (duet with Halocene):

(over 1.5 million views)

Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits”:

(over 791k views)

Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Getting Back Together”:

(over 453k views)

Moana’s “How Far I’ll Go”:

(over 1.6 million views)

As 2022 continues to take shape, NO RESOLVE are gearing up for their first full-scale headlining tour, one that’s aptly been dubbed the “Take Cover Tour,” with many of its dates already having sold out in advance. Check them out at any of the following tour stops, with more to be announced in the coming weeks:

Sat 4/16            Minot, ND                     The Original Bar

Sun 4/17           Des Moines, IA              Leftys

Thu 4/21           Sioux Falls, SD             Bigs Bar

Fri 4/22             Omaha, NE                   Wired (SOLD-OUT)

Sat 4/23            Janesville, WI                The Back Bar (SOLD-OUT)

Sun 4/24           Lombard, IL                   Brauer House

Wed 4/27          Bucyrus, OH                 Dillingers Entertainment Center (SOLD-OUT)

Thu 4/28           South Bend, IN              Cheers (SOLD-OUT)

Fri 4/29             Flint, MI                        The Machine Shop (SOLD-OUT)

Sat 4/30            Flint, MI                        The Machine Shop (SOLD-OUT)

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