The Kung Fu Records website announces that Variety has served punk band The Vandals (please no angry e-mails about my possibly incorrect genre-pigeonholing etc etc) with a cease-and-desist letter over the band's new logo. Frankly, we don't see the resemblance. The Vandals' bass player muses, "It's weird that a news organization that depends on free speech for its livelihood couldn't see the artistic merit of what we have done." Weird? Clearly, the band's never read any of the gibberish below the "V" at the top of a Variety page.

• VANDALS RECEIVE CEASE AND DESIST FOR NEW LOGO [Kung Fu Records]

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