Well hello there boys&girls;

it is my pleasure to bring you a brand booty-smackin' new track off a demo/pre-production we finished recently. We went into the studio with a guy named Bent (who is not only good looking, but friendly, competent and laid back -- not to mention he did it all for FREE) and cut five tracks, just to see how this stuff sounds on record. Some of these songs are more than a year old, some are a couple of months old -- those of you who have experienced us live in the last year will no doubt have heard this song.

The song is named 'Prince Dubya' and is perhaps our jazziest song yet. The lyrics are written by yours truly... ever notice how the people that wage wars all the time are the same people that benefit from them? This is my first stab at writing a political song and I think it came out alright. The band is spectacular -- notice the brilliance of the rhythm section, the splended guitar work and the SPECTACULAR horn section -- this will be your first rendezvous with our trumpet player, Eivind "Hot Lips" Solheim (you'll know why he's nicknamed Hot Lips after hearing his solo), who has been playing with us for over a year but never recorded with us before.

The remaining tracks from the sessions will remain unreleased for various reasons, and we decided to let this song stay online for a limited time only. So grab it while it's hot, and make sure to tell us what you think.

We can never thank you enough for the love&support you give us, but let this track be seen as a token of our appreciation for those of you who say nice things about our music and dance at our shows.

Sincerely,
Lasso // No Torso

"Ooh man, i know your band for 3 months now and I can't stop listening to it. It's rare to find a band that plays such genius and hasn't quit yet. Damn, the skasound you guys produce is so fresh and different from all the other losers who try to take on Ska. ofcourse, they're not all losers, lots of great ska bands. But, and this may be weird to hear or strange to belief, you guys are certainly on your way to become one of my favorite skabands (apart from Streetlight Manifesto and the Planet Smashers, not exactly the most original ska bands, but what can I say, their sounds is so original that they deserve to be the best) Really, I can't say enough how much I like your unique sound. Damn, your music makes me so ultrahappy that I just want to skank the night away. Yesterday I was even skankin on my chair to time will show. Hah not that that matters. I saw a clip from you guys playing in a house, crappy quality, but the horns sounded as good as on cd. Not like those reel big fish wankers who have the most utter crapquality horns. Respect that's the feeling I truely feel. Seriously you guys give Ska anohter dimension, and these are not just words, i know something about ska and it's rare to found something like what you produce. Respect for not trying to fake some other band and doing your own thing. You guys rock and I hope that one day I'll see you perform. But maybe bor and me will try to arrange that, but not in the present future though, lot of school work and stuff, summer vacation seems like the perfect period for me, but those are plans for later. Goodbye and thank you for the music :) "

All we can say: Thank you so much!

Hello!

You might wonder what`s up with No Torso? Well, right now we`re making alot of new songs for an upcoming album. Hopefully we will start recording it this summer/autumn and right now we`re wrapping up a 5 song pre-prod with new, fresh No Torso tracks. I must say that it sounds good for a two day session pre-prod!

We`ve also joined Storaas Artist. They will help us with booking/promotion this year and they have many great bands on their roster. Go check out www.storaasartist.no

We`re also thinking about playing some shows this summer here in Norway. If that happens it will be the for the first time in our five year career! So it`s about time...

We`re also excited for the upcoming Plea For Peace compilation and we hope you`ll support this great project. Alot of great bands and we`re really priviliged to be on it. Go get it! 100% will go to charity. And oh..Check out www.iliketheska.com where "Several Brains" has been rated as the 6th best ska album of 2006!

Saturday 3rd of March we`ll be playing at the local stage "Prammen". Hope to see you there!

Best regards

No Torso

P.S Shows willbe added soon! Keep updating yourself!

Plea for Peace Compilation CD available in April 2007

It's an exciting time! The people here at Plea for Peace are in the processes of wrapping up the next Plea for Peace Benefit Compilation, that will be available in April 2007.

Here are some of the bands that have been kind enough to donate tracks for our double disc compilation:

The Queers
Dwarves
Dead to Me
The Lillingtons
Alkaline Trio
The A.K.A.s (Unreleased Demo)
Andrew Jackson Jihad (Unreleased)
Tim Barry
The Cardinal Sin
The Falcon
The Singularity
Anti-Flag
Planes Mistaken for Stars
Whale Horse
Pansy Division (Unreleased studio track)
The Bouncing Souls
Akiakana
Bleeding Through
Cave In (Unreleased live track)
Youth Brigade
Smoke or Fire
No Torso
RX Bandits
Sundowner
The Aggrolites
Chuck Ragan
Filthy Thieving Bastards
Toys that Kill
Jawbreakers (Unreleased live track)
Mike Hale (Unreleased)
Fifth Hour Hero
The Briefs
Drag the River
The Methadones
NOFX
The Draft (Unreleased B-side)
The Sainte Catherines
Big D & The Kids Table
Western Addiction
Throwdown
Darkest Hour (Unreleased)
Love Equals Death
South of No North
A Papier Mache Monster (Unreleased)
Cursive
Heavens
Satori
The Debonaires
The Peacocks
Samiam
Dan Andriano

100% of the profits will go towards opening the future Plea for Pleace teen center, so please show your support!!!

Peace always.

Tomorrow we will start recording some brand new tracks for a preprod. It has been a long time since we`ve entered a studio and I think it`ll be fun to try out some new tunes in the studio setting. Then we`ll listen to it and find out what`s good and bad so we can adjuste details for our future album recording.

It`s pretty quiet on the live front nowadays but I can assure you all that gigs are on their way... So be patient.

See you soon!

We`ve got some questions lately from people who wonder where they can get our album "Several Brains". The album is available in many US stores so be sure to check out. Otherwise use this link:

http://www.interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=127853&

You can also find it at: www.asianmanrecords.com or http://www.amazon.com/Several-Brains-No-Torso/dp/B000F5WN82/sr=8-1/qid=1157978189/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-3313815-3347818?ie=UTF8&s=music

The record should now be available in norwegian stores through Indie Distribution (www.indiedist.no)