We’re a week away from Christmas Eve! Hard to believe this year has FLOWN by, eh?…In the news today, Congrats to Green Day, who will soon be inducted into the Class of 2015 at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, this year’s ceremony will be back in Cleveland. It was actually cool to have it here in NYC (actually in Brooklyn.) My boss and I attended after buying tix at Stub Hub at the last minute! I had to see Nirvana get inducted. Anyhow, Pulse Of Radio reports Billie Joe Armstrong told Rolling Stone he had to “go for a walk” when he got the news, saying, “I wound up at this cafe and I sat down and my son met up with me. I told him and he was like, ‘Oh my God. No way.’ It just took some time to sink in. We’re in incredible company and I’m still trying to make sense of this. It’s just incredible.” Looking back at the band’s 25-year recording history, Armstrong said, “The fact that we kept on hanging on to this thing we believe in for so many years is incredible. It’s unique that we started so young. It’s almost freakish. We were weird little kids. We got to be weird together and create this thing called Green Day for so many years.” Armstrong told us a while back he finds it difficult to reflect on the group’s past: “It’s hard to look back when you’re thinking about the future so much. We’ve done a lot of things. Like, when we started playing punk rock music, it was already a proven fact that you couldn’t be famous or get big or be a millionaire off of being in a punk rock band, and we’ve definitely broken those rules. But we’ve tried to take it in and just move on, you know. It’s just crazy. It’s been a pretty strange journey indeed.” Armstrong and Green Day have been at the Hall of Fame ceremony before, most notably their first time in 2002, when they performed in place of the Ramones. Armstrong also inducted the Stooges in 2010. Also being inducted alongside Green Day are Joan Jett & The Blackhearts. Armstrong said, “It’s great. I’m so happy for her . . . The way that she is just this badass woman and probably the s**t she had to deal with in a male-dominated rock scene, it’s just an honor to be side-by-side with her.” (Man, he’s being humble! That’s sooonot punk of him!) Armstrong said that Green Day will perform at the induction ceremony and joked that their turn onstage will be drama-free, saying, “I look at Mike and Tre (Cool, drummer) and what we’ve done and I look at our fans and how everything is just still intact and our relationship is still there. Me and Mike live a couple of blocks from each other. We’ve lived a couple blocks from each other our whole lives . . . We’re all in a surreal state right now.” Armstrong acknowledged that the band has “a lot of heavy stuff going on right now,” referring to Mike Dirnt’s wife’s battle with breast cancer and guitarist Jason White‘s recently diagnosed tonsil cancer. But he added, “I think of next year as us kind of regrouping and getting together more. I want to make sure that everyone’s head is in the right place and wants to start doing it again.” The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place in Cleveland on April 18th….Papa Roach has unveiled a brand new song called “Broken As Me” ahead of the January 27th release of the band’s eighth full-length studio album, F.E.A.R. The new disc was recorded in Las Vegas, taking the band out of their Sacramento, California home base for the first time since 2006. Papa Roach worked with the father-and-son producing team of Kevin and Kane Churko on the new CD. Frontman Jacoby Shaddix told us he wasn’t very happy at first about going to Sin City to record: “I ended up in this city where I’ve had some of my greatest failures and worst decision making, and some of my biggest debacles of my life happened in Vegas, you know. And I believe I was sent back to that city to go do right this time, and we went there and I just faced that fear of living in this city that I felt was gonna eat me alive. But really and truly I just gave myself to this music 100 percent, and that’s what pulled me through.” Guitarist Jerry Horton added, “We walked into the studio with nothing. It was frightening since it was so different, but it was also liberating. Once the ball started rolling, it was a snowball effect.” Papa Roach and Seether will team up for a co-headlining North American tour that kicks off on Jan 9th in Orlando, Florida and winds down on Feb 7th in Las Vegas…..Sounds like Santa Claus came early over at Sully Erna‘s house! The Godsmack vocalist revealed in a new interview with The Rock Revival he recently finished shooting a role in a pilot for a proposed TV series along with Drea De Matteo of Sons Of Anarchy and The Sopranos fame. Along with some potential film appearances, Erna said he hopes to continue building his acting resume. He explained, “I’m just trying to continue to get some momentum in TV and film, because I really enjoy it as well.” Erna added, “It’s a really fun thing. I’m just working my way up that ladder at this point and nurturing Godsmack when that needs some attention and doing some solo stuff. The rest of my time I give to my daughter.”….California band Of Mice And Men will release a double-CD, deluxe reissue of the group’s 2014 third album Restoring Force on Feb 24th, 2015. The new version, called Restoring Force: Full Circle, will come in a foil-stamped digipack that includes three brand new songs and an acoustic version of the band’s hit single, “Feels Like Forever.” The new songs are titled “Broken Generation,” “Something To Hide” and “Never Giving Up.” All three, along with the acoustic version of “Feels Like Forever,” were recorded this past fall in California. Restoring Force came out at the end of last January and debuted at Number Four on the Billboard 200 album chart with first-week sales of 51,000 copies. Both the chart and sales figures were career highs for the act. Of Mice And Men will hit arenas in early 2015 as special guests of Linkin Park, with the tour kicking off on Jan 15th in Orlando, FL….Let’s remember what the holidays are all about. .Pearl Jam recently promoted a GoFundMe crowdsourcing campaign aimed at helping Toni Wood, the mother of late Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood, who was living in unsafe conditions in a trailer on Bainbridge Island in Washington while simultaneously paying for her other son’s cancer treatments. The campaign raised more than $35,000 of its $50,000 goal to help Toni move into a new home, with Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament contributing an additional $40,000 of personal money to the cause. Andy Wood’s death in 1990 from a heroin overdose led to the breakup of Mother Love Bone, of which emerged both theTemple Of The Dog tribute album and a new band that eventually became Pearl Jam. (Diffuser)….Happy 36th today to Neil Sanderson of Three Days Grace. Happy 68th to Eugene Levy of SCTV and Happy 65th to Bad Company’s Paul Rodgers.