Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed.

• • Greg Kot at the Tribune announced that Lollapalooza ticket prices will rise this year after the festival renegotiated its tax deal with the city. The new agreement will raise over $4 million in city and county revenue and keep the annual music fest at Grant Park until 2021.
• • The Sun-Times has the details on Mayor Emanuel’s plan to charge $25 per seat at Taste of Chicago concerts held at Petrillo Music Shell.
• • Soul rockers JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound provided Gapers Block with a SXSW tour diary filled with their Austin adventures. Local jazzy hip-hop outfit Jip-Jop contributed as well.
• • Speaking of SXSW, in an effort to see who still cares what he has to say, Billy Corgan called today’s mainstream artists “prostitutes” and “strippers.” He also said this gem: “I was part of a generation that changed the world – and it was taken over by poseurs.” The more you know.
• • Time Out Chicago has photos from Company of Thieves big hometown show at the Metro two Fridays ago.

Since professional wrestling is as popular as ever with WWF’s Monday Night Raw and WCW’s Monday Nitro getting huge ratings week in and out…Whoa, sorry about that.

For some reason, I was thinking it was 1998.

But the fact that it’s 2011 isn’t stopping Billy Corgan (formerly/currently of Smashing Pumpkins) from starting his own professional wrestling company. For realz.

Corgan appeared on My Fox Chicago yesterday morning to not really promote the Smashing Pumpkins’ show tonight at the Riviera Theatre, but to talk his newest venture, Resistance Pro Wrestling.

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At the end of last month when The Metro posted on Twitter and Facebook that former Joy Division/New Order bassist Peter Hook and his band The Light would have a special guest – none other than Billy Corgan – on hand, we were obviously interested. Video has surfaced from that show, courtesy of Consequence of Sound’s Cluster 1. In it, Corgan and his trademark sneering vocals jumped (quite literally) at the chance to assist on the Joy Division classics “Transmission” and “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” If the sight of Billy Corgan happily dancing and singing is potentially upsetting to your person, you may want to skip this video. Otherwise, enjoy! And for a different perspective of “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” check out this video clip by YouTube user “sweendog73.”

Billy Corgan

The album is no longer dead, declared William Patrick Corgan – otherwise known as Smashing Pumpkins mastermind Billy Corgan – in a video posted on Facebook this morning.

Corgan announced that his Smashing Pumpkins will release a new album called Oceania later this year that will be a part of the band’s current 44-song long project Teargarden By Kaleidyscope.

The four-minute video shows Corgan in a place that is clearly not in Chicago because it features sunshine and other things found in nature.

If that wasn’t enough to rile up Smashing Pumpkins fans, Corgan went on to announce that the Pumpkins’ have acquired its previously unreleased material from its old label EMI and that the label will re-release all of SP’s classic records and offer a digital boxset.

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Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed.

• • Spin got a chance to pick the ever evolving brain of Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan.
• • Check out Aharona Ament’s take on the new Dreamend album So I Ate Myself, Bite by Bite over on Gapers Block.
• • Time Out Chicago examined the current status of the Chicago Jazz scene.
• • Pitchfork talked to Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon about his collaboration with Kanye West on the rapper’s upcoming album.
• • Wilco will be joining our neighbors to the north in Wisconsin for Farm Aid on Oct. 2 at Miller Park in Milwaukee.

Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed.

• • Terri Hemmert, longtime DJ at WXRT and host of Breakfast with the Beatles, won the Radio Hall of Fame’s “Local or Regional-Active” personality award for 2010.
• • Prefix conversed with Davey VonBohlen, guitarist from the reunited emo pioneers Cap’n Jazz.
• • According to MTV, T.I. teamed up with Kanye West in Hawaii and recorded six tracks for T.I.’s King Uncaged album.
• • Citing exhaustion, Neko Case has cancelled the dates scheduled for her August tour of the Southeast.
• • Blabbermouth.net had the details on Billy Corgan’s surprise sit in on “Every Rose Has It’s Thorn” at recent Camp Freddy show in L.A.
• • Minneapolis’ Fuck Knights might be from Minnesota, but they are big Chicago scene supporters and play here constantly. The band’s new EP, produced by Gary Burger of The Monks, is set for a November release. Here’s a preview

Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed.

• • Billy Corgan collapsed during a performance of “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” at Ritz Ybor in Tampa, Fla.
• • It’s now come to an online petition to Atlantic Records to try and get Lupe Fiasco’s Lasers album released.
• • Spin magazine posted its list of 25 Must-Hear Artists slated to perform at this year’s Lollapalooza.
• • Windy City Rock interviewed Nashville singer-songwriter and Loyola grad Clark Paterson.
• • Greg Kot gave a thorough rundown of the planned $18 million expansion including new concert space at Old Town School of Folk Music.