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From Biz Markie to Brian Jones, from Wham! to Milli Vanilli, mixtapes and amazing album art, here are 10 recent music docs you can watch now.

As always, FACT’s list shines a line on a lot of artists that most year-end lists don’t. Their #1 may surprise you.

Can you guess #1? It’s not Bowie or Radiohead…

UK electronic artist and enemy of Steve Albini, Powell released his latest LP Sport earlier this year on XL. Now he’s heading over the US for a couple of shows in NYC and LA…

London label Diagonal Records has been celebrating its fifth anniversary with a North American tour this August, featuring rare US performances from label co-founders Powell and Jaimie as well as Russell Haswell and Not Waving…

Berserktown is an annual festival that goes down in LA that’s more interested in booking challenging music than big names (like for example, Destruction Unit and Thee Oh Sees were headliners last year). It returns for its third year from August 12-14 at the Teragram Ballroom and includes Psychic TV performing their 1982 album Force The Hand Of Change in full with guests, Ana Curra performing a set of music from her short-lived goth band Paralisis Permanente (who existed from 1981-1983), veteran UK DJ Powell, repeat offenders Destruction Unit (billed as “Destruction Unit + Friends”), the first-ever US show from long-running Swedish noise rockers Brainbombs, Danish punks Gorilla Angreb (who initially broke up in 2007), Hank Wood + the Hammerheads…

Montreal’s Mutek Festival is happening again this year. The festival, which focuses on the more experimental end of electronic music, runs June 1-5 at various venues in downtown Montreal. This year’s lineup features Dawn of Midi, Colleen, Function, Julia Kent, Jlin, Tim Hecker, Ash Koosha, Burnt Friedman, Powell, Off World and many more. Tickets for […]

You may have heard about UK electronic artist Powell, who sampled Steve Albini from an old Big Black live recording and then politely emailed him to ask permission to use it…

I always look forward to FACT‘s year-end list, which you can count on to be chock full of (but not limited to) forward-thinking electronic music, pop, R&B and rap, and it’s one of the lists where I’m usually guaranteed to find something new…