First Beef of the New Year: No Age Vs. Kings of Leon

No Age have accused Kings of Leon of ripping off No Age's white T with rainbow-coloured text. As much as I love No Age and dislike post-Because of the Times Kings of Leon (although, their latest album Come Around Sundown is actually pretty decent), I think this claim is a little farfetched. I whole-heartedly do not believe No Age are the first to have put rainbow-coloured block text on a white T. It's far too simple of a design to have first appeared in the New freakin' Millennium. But hey, what do I know about the history of logos and clothing design?

Kings of Leon - "Radioactive" (single) (RCA Records, 2010)

Have Kings of Leon become the new U2 or Coldplay? "Radioactive," the surprisingly catchy and overall good first single from their upcoming fifth album Come Around Sundown is not totally redeeming. Like U2 and Coldplay, Kings of Leon still seem capable of creating a good hook but slather on arena-sized amounts of reverb to make the song sound unnecessarily huge. But regardless of that minor fault, "Radioactive" is still good enough to make me want to check out Kings of Leon's new album. I also still rather enjoy their album titles and quite dig their svelte new motif: