plus: United We Stand additions. Anthrax (the band). Charles Ables obit.

Destiny's Child [ tickets ] has called off a planned European tour due to security concerns.

Also, the trio has set an Oct. 30 release date for its holiday album, "8 Days of Christmas" (Sony).

Beginning on Friday (10/12), Tori Amos [ tickets ]' "Strange Little Webcast" will be available via the Warner Bros. website. The feature will include 45 minutes of music that the artist performed for the Warner Bros. Online Live Concert Series.

The divorce of rapper Eminem [ tickets ]--whose real name is Marshall Mathers III--from Kimberly Mathers has been finalized. According to published reports, Eminem will pay $1,000 a week in child support.

Rod Stewart, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Goo Goo Dolls and Train have been added to the lineup for the Oct. 21 United We Stand benefit concert.

Previously announced artists include Aerosmith, Michael Jackson, 'NSync, Backstreet Boys, James Brown, Al Green, Ricky Martin and KISS.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. ET on Friday (10/12).

From the official website of the rock band Anthrax:

In the twenty years we've been known as "Anthrax", we never thought the day would come that our name would actually mean what it really means. When I learned about anthrax in my senior year biology class, I thought the name sounded "metal". Everyone in my neighborhood had a band with an "er" name, like "Ripper" or "Deceiver" or "Killers" and I wanted to be different. "Anthrax" sounded cool, aggressive, and nobody knew what it was. Until a few years ago most people thought we'd made it up. Even our album, "Spreading The Disease" was just a play on the name. We were spreading our music to the masses.

Before the tragedy of September 11th the only thing scary about Anthrax was our bad hair in the 80's and the "Fistful Of Metal" album cover. Most people associated the name Anthrax with the band, not the germ. Now in the wake of those events, our name symbolizes fear, paranoia and death. Suddenly our name is not so cool. To be associated with these things we are against is a strange and stressful situation. To us, and to millions of people, it is just a name. We don't want to change the name of the band, not because it would be a pain in the ass, but because we hope that no further negative events will happen and it won't be necessary. We hope and pray that this problem goes away quietly and we all grow old and fat together.

Charles Ables, a bass player in Shirley Horn's band for more than 30 years, died on Monday (10/8) of undisclosed causes, according to Universal Music. He was 58.