Kevin Bronson on January 14th, 2013

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This is one nobody will win: There is increasing confusion around town about two bands named NO, a moniker that cannot be copyrighted trademarked*, and not even shared very comfortably.

The first, well-known to visitors to this portal, is Echo Park-based indie favorites NO, who emerged in the summer of 2011 with their free EP “Don’t Worry, You’ll Be Here Forever” and have worked slowly toward the release of their full-length this year. They are the happy owners of the @NO Twitter handle, and their music is listed under their band name on iTunes.

Then there is a young pop-rock quartet called NO, the pride of Bonner County, Idaho, who were originally known as (the almost equally un-Googleable) No Cover. No surprise that they sought another name (imagine trying to sell tickets to a No Cover show), but as their story goes, it was Bono himself who advised them to drop “cover” from their name in 2011. They tweet from the @followno handle (and from @noBonosaidso) , and have releases on iTunes as NO and N-O. The boy-bandish NO do have a sizable online following, owing to their having appeared last year on TV in the Howie Mandel cringefest “Mobbed.”

Thankfully, the Belgian electro band Nô seems to be no longer around.

‣ In other naming drama, L.A. trio Future Ghost – who was caught up in the Future Ghosts/Future Ghosts brouhaha – are changing their name to Missing Teen and just launched a Facebook page to that effect. They are playing Friday at the Satellite.

‣ And the Dance Party, last spotted here, is now going by the moniker Brett, and will be opening for Professor Possessor at the Bootleg Bar on Tuesday.

* Thank you to reader Hal.