plus: Napster and Grand Royal. J Mascis injured. Stereophonics, bottled off. The Belize Fungus. Missing Persons item correction.

Pantera [ tickets ]'s July 8 show in Des Moines has been canceled, the band announced via its website.

Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight will be released from a federal prison in Oregon on Aug. 9, billboard.com reported. He has served about half of a nine-year sentence for violating a probation that stemmed from assault charges.

The American Eagle Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to the protection of American eagles, announced on Tuesday (6/19) that it has won a trademark-infringement lawsuit filed by the Eagles [ tickets ].

According to the organization, "The band's lawsuit had challenged the Foundation's use of its educational and fundraising www.eagle.org website address, '800-2EAGLES' phone number and 'American Eagle Records' compact disc and video distribution label ..."

Napster has signed a deal with Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label in which the music file-trading company will promote bands from the label on its Featured Music program.

Currently featured on Napster's home page are the non-Grand Royal bands Tinstar, Lemon Jelly and Convoy.

Rolling Stone reported, "J Mascis suffered two broken vertebrae when his touring van was involved in an accident in Sweden en route to a gig. According to a rep, he returned to the U.S. yesterday and is recuperating."

NME.com reported that Stereophonics and Feeder were "bottled off" the stage--a British term meaning that fans threw bottles and cans at the bands until they left--at the Heineken Jammin Festival in Imola, Italy, last Saturday (6/16). The article states that, according to eyewitnesses, the fans were impatient to see "local rock idol" Vasco Rossi.

On a visit to the South American country of Belize, Dr. Victor Cardenes, a Spanish scientist, discovered a fungus that slowly eats CDs, the U.K. Telegraph reported.

According to the article, a spokesman for Philips, "the Dutch company that invented the compact disc," said that the destruction of the CD was probably a freak accident caused by extreme weather conditions. Philips is apparently worried that people might stop buying CDs, for fear of the Belize Fungus. That's what we call it: The Belize Fungus.

Yesterday (6/18), liveDaily Briefly ran an item about the Missing Persons' reunion, and we got the dates wrong. We've since updated the item. Sorry.