Rune Grammofon is publishing a book tracing independent free jazz and improv labels between 1965 and 1985, from the beginning of ESP-Disk through to the ascendant CD format. 60 labels are covered and forewords are written by confessed discaholic Mats Gustafsson, plus Rune Grammofon founder Rune Kristoffersen.

Free Jazz And Improvisation On Vinyl 1965–1985, is published on 18 August, and an exhibition of the cover art included (which includes a number of rare releases) takes place at Kongsberg Jazz Festival, 2–5 July.

Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides, the duo of Kelly Jayne Jones and Pascal Nichols, tour a new work around the UK in August. The piece, titled Conduit Of The Bottomless Submundane involves three looping tape pieces, tactile elements and speakers placed in various positions depending on the venue. The performance is intended as a way to camouflage the processes of sound generation.

The duo play in Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bradford and Bexhill, plus Supernormal and Wysing Art Centre festival. Full tour listing here, and more details on their site.

Detroit jazz trumpeter Charles Moore has died age 73. Moore was one of the co-founders of the Detroit Artist's Workshop, with his friend and associate, poet and activist John Sinclair. He began recording in the late 60s, for labels including Blue Note, and his flugelhorn playing appears on MC5's 1971 album High Time. Moore studied ethnomusicology at UCLA, going on to teach at various American institutions.

Not satisfied with card sets, t-shirts and box sets, Numero Group's latest release comes as a special edition with board game. Cities Of Darkscorch is a companion to the label's Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles, a compilation of American underground occult obsessed teenage rock and metal groups from the 1970s. The basis for the game is artist Robert Soden's maps and schemes for the Dungeons & Dragons based land of Eldara. Roleplay as one of 16 battling groups and collect city banners from "pits of hard rock competition" for the ultimate prize: a record contract.

Moondog biopic The Viking Of 6th Avenue has successfully reached its crowdfunding target, raising over $105,000. The film, already in production with shooting already started, is expected to be released next year. It will include archival footage and rare audio interviews with Moondog, tracing his route to the corner of 6th avenue.

In other Moondog news: On 2 August, at Offenbach Robert Johnson, composer Volker Zander will be giving a talk on Moondog's first concert in Germany, which took place in 1974 and included a performance with Kraftwerk and young British composers called Intermodulation, who played interpretations of Terry Riley's keyboard studies.

More on the film here.

Earlier this year a planned dubplates radio special of Adventures In Sound And Music (The Wire's slot on Resonance FM) had to be postponed. Now, we're happy to announce the show will go ahead next week, on 3 July, hosted by Derek Walmsley with special guest Lee Bogush.

In the early 1990s you'd find Bogush's name on 12"s from the Moving Shadow label, released under the name DJ Harmony. Since these earliest days in the jungle scene, he's been collecting dubplates of many of the most exclusive (and often unreleased) drum ’n’ bass tracks around – an obsession that's continued right up to the present day. Over two decades of trading, purchasing and blagging through his extensive contacts in the business, he's forged a collection of hundreds of dubplates that traces an alternative and untold history of jungle.

Bogush will be in the studio on 3 July, to talk through the collection and how it came together. He'll be digging deep into his bag of plates to play some of the most sought after tracks from back in the day, many of which coined the language of drum ’n’ bass but were forgotten or written out of official histories of the scene, talking through his life in drum 'n' bass from behind the record shop counter and on the roster of one of the great labels.

Resonance FM, Thursday 3 July 2014, 9pm–10:30pm

Culture jammers Negativland are releasing their single "U2", for which the group was sued in the 1990s. The single was taken from an album of the same name, that remixed and repurposed versions of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", some of which sampled the radio presenter Casey Kasem, who died this month. The original record was on sale for ten days before a legal battle began with Island Records and it was taken off shelves. Negativland have now made the original unmixed studio multitracks available for free downloading and remixing.

Remixers are encouraged to post their versions of the "U2" single at Negativland's site, and on the group's Facebook page.

Unsound has announced the first batch of acts for its 2014 festival, gathered under the banner of The Dream, which festival organiser Mat Schulz says is aimed at triggering discussion surrounding the increasing homogenisation of music festivals.

The line up so far includes Swans, Helge Sten's Deathprod playing Treetop Drive, Carter Tutti Void, Ben Frost, DJ Stingray, EVOL, Joey Anderson, Perc, Rrose, Norwegian musician and artist TCF (aka Lars Holdus), Polish producer Zamilska. Unsound have commissioned The Necks and Radian to perform together, Container's music performed live via a triggered drum setup played by Kenneth Kapstad and Tomas Jahrmyr.

Unsound's New York scent and sound installation – where Tim Hecker, Kode9 and Ben Frost created sonic representations of noise, drone and bass respectively – will also be part of this year's Krakow edition, with more installations, talks and performances to be announced in the coming months. The festival takes place 12–19 October across various venues in Krakow. More details here.

Producer Alan Douglas, who worked on records by Jimi Hendrix, the Last Poets and Duke Ellington among others, has died age 82.

Douglas was perhaps most well known regarding disputes around his work on posthumously music by Jimi Hendrix. Douglas struck up a friendship with Hendrix in 1969. After Hendrix died Douglas was charged with compiling albums from the unreleased material. In 1975 two albums came out, but were widely criticised after it was revealed he had replaced Hendrix's backing musicians with freshly recorded music. Douglas stated the replacements were in order to keep Hendrix's popular appeal intact, editing out what he thought to be sub standard backing instrumentation in the original recordings.

He worked at United Artists Records in the early 1960s before forming his own label. He recorded two Eric Dolphy albums in his earlier years at FM Records, and later published work by Timothy Leary and Lenny Bruce, and notably brought Duke Ellington, Max Roach and Charles Mingus into the studio together to record Money Jungle.

A whopping new release from New Zealand no technique trio The Dead C is imminent. Morley, Russell and Yeats's The Twelfth Spectacle arrives in August, and collects live recordings from the last ten years onto four LPs for Grapefruit records's subscription series.

The Twelfth Spectacle includes: Arena, Recorded at La Dynamo Pantin, Paris and Les Ateliers Cl, April 2013; Permanent LSD, recorded at London's Luminaire in December 2006; This Century Sucks, recorded at The Smell, Los Angeles, March 2002, and Year of the Rat, recorded at The Swap Meet in New York in October 2008.

Grapefruit, started by Ba Da Bing's Ben Goldberg in 2010, will be wrapping up its operations with this release, which is out on 19 August, in an edition of 500. More details here.