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AC/DC announced today they are releasing the official soundtrack to the upcoming sequel on April 19 w/the first video shot to “Shoot To Thrill” now available.

The soundtrack won’t contain any new songs, but instead are 15 classic tracks including “Let There Be Rock”, “Thunderstruck” and the recent “War Machine” from  Black Ice.

In stores May 7.

Ozzy Osbourne is reportedly changing the title of his next album, which will be out in July. He was going to call it Soul Sucka, but now he says, “The fans just don’t seem to like it. As soon as it was announced, people were really negative about it. They just weren’t gonna buy T-shirts with that on.” He has yet to announce what the new title will be.

Ozzy autobiography’s I Am Ozzy hit bookstores yesterday, and he’ll appear at the Columbus Circle Borders in New York today.

The 52nd annual Grammy Awards are this Sunday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Among the classic rock nominees are Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood for their live album, Bruce Springsteen, U-2, A-C/D-C, Bon Jovi, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Neil Young, Judas Priest, Jeff Beck, Brian Setzer, David Byrne, Levon Helm, Mick Fleetwood and Elvis Costello.

Bruce Springsteen leads the classic rock community with four nominations, three for his Working on a Dream album — Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance and Best Rock Song for “Working on a Dream,” Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for “The Wrestler” and Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals for his duet with Rosanne Cash on “Sea of Heartbreak,” from her album The List.

The Grammy Awards air live Sunday at 8:00 p-m [ET/PT] on C-B-S.

Could The Beatles be one step closer to making their music available on I-Tunes? There is now a fully licensed Beatles I-Phone app, which is available through the I-Phone App Store. The program allows you to download lyrics and chords to more than 160 Fab Four songs.

Pete Townshend tells Billboard that The Who will play a “mash-up of stuff” during their performance at the Super Bowl half-time show February 7th in Miami. “A bit of ‘Baba O’Riley,’ a bit of ‘Pinball Wizard,’ a bit of the close of ‘Tommy,’ a bit of ‘Who Are You,’ and a bit of ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again.’ It works — it’s quite a saga. A lot of the stuff that we do has that kind of celebratory vibe about it — we’ve always tried to make music that allows the audience to go a bit wild if they want to. Hopefully, it will hit the spot.” Steve Winwood will perform during the pre-game show.

“Under My Thumb”, “Here Comes the Night”, “Tin Soldier”; I’ve always appreciated how Kenny Shields was able to interpret other people’s work, and, while giving it something of a makeover, was always able to maintain the spirit of the original…it’s integrity intact!  This time Kenny has once again put his indelible stamp on a 60s classic, this one a certain “Black is Black” by title.  A Spanish band named Los Bravos cut this one back in ’66, about the time Kenny was fronting Witness Inc. (check out this link)

http://www.garagehangover.com/?q=WitnessInc

http://www.kennyshieldsandstreetheart.com/

If you’ve not yet heard Kenny’s version of “Black is Black”, keep listening!  Better still, go to www.itunes.com and download it yourself!

Slash says he’s looking into organizing a big fund-raising concert for victims of the Haiti earthquake.  Stay tuned for details.

Those wishing to make a donation may do so by texting HAITI 90999 on your cell phone.  Automatically a $10.00 donation will be submitted on your behalf and billed to your number.

Gene Simmons is attending this year’s NAMM Show in Anaheim, California; it’s an annual music products trade show that draws musicians and fans alike.  Gene is promoting his new AX Bass Guitar line!  Says Gene “….Even though every guitar player refers to his instrument as an axe, I actually own the trademark, and have for 28 years. And each instrument is signed, each instrument is handmade, of course, so it doesn’t go through the factory process. Quality instrument, high-end, and if you go to GeneSimmons-dot-com you’ll be able to get yours.”

KISS spent all Tuesday shooting the Dr. Pepper commercial that will premiere during the Super Bowl.  Tthe group was at it from 7 in the morning until 11 at night, but that – no surprise — they’re not allowed to say what it’s about.

Ringo Starr announced his next All-Starr Band tour yesterday in New York. As we reported, he’ll be joined by All-Starr Band alumni Edgar Winter, Gary Wright and drummer Gregg Bissonette, and newcomers Rick Derringer, Richard Page from Mr. Mister and Wally Palmar from The Romantics. The tour starts June 24th in Niagara Falls, Canada and runs through August 7th in Los Angeles with more dates to be announced.

Ringo released a new album yesterday called Y Not.

Bon Jovi will turn their appearance on this month’s Grammy Awards into an exercise in democracy by letting fans decide what tune they play. The voting isn’t wide open — there are six songs to choose from at CBS.com/Grammys, and you have until 11-59 p-m [ET] on January 24th to have your say. You’ll then be able to then pick from three finalists right up until showtime on January 31st. 

The six songs in the voting are:

• “Always”
• “Bed of Roses”
• “Have a Nice Day”
• “It’s My Life”
• “Livin’ on a Prayer”
• “Wanted Dead or Alive.”