Radioactive

You hear all the same sounds that powered Sex on Fire and Use Somebody – the echoing, Edge-like guitar, the reverb that makes everything sound like it's already booming around a vast sports arena – but nothing to match their dizzily uplifting choruses: the single Radioactive is about as good as it gets.

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Back in 1994, 17-year-old David Hahn, aka the "Radioactive Boy Scout", tried to create a functioning reactor in a backyard shed at his house in Michigan.

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The the Kings Of Leon are set to release their first track called Radioactive from their new album entitled Come Around

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"Radioactive," his debut full-length album, is due in April.

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In fact, Sundown's lead single, "Radioactive", boasts an urgent chorus that suggests the Kings have ditched their token indie crushes on the Pixies for Talking Heads.

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"Radioactive" is the first single from the band's acclaimed new record Come Around Sundown.

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Sure, first single "Radioactive" mixes angst and elation in panoramic fashion, and producers Angelo Petraglia and Jacquire King are once more at the helm.

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"Radioactive" is the first single from the band's acclaimed new record Come Around Sundown.

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'Radioactive' sex offender on the run - Telegraph: "A judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of Thomas Leopold, a college principal, amid warnings from doctors that he is contaminated with a 'dangerous' level of radiation."

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