Author and Wire contributor Ken Hollings publishes his next book via Strange Attractor next month. The Bright Labyrinth: Sex, Death And Design In The Digital Regime traces the ways in which technology has impacted upon the development of human culture. Hollings is also due to release a cassette on The Tapeworm imprint, of readings backed with Buchla electronics and more. Title and release date to be confirmed.

As mentioned a few months ago, a collection of Kim Gordon's art and music writing is being published by Sternberg Press. News reaches us today that Is It My Body? will be out this month, and contains essays on Mike Kelley, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham and others, plus a discussion between Gordon and artist and collaborator Jutta Koether. More details here.

Keiji Haino is reported to have formed an R&B covers group, who performed at his annual end of year show in Tokyo. The five piece group, Hardy Soul, with Haino on vocals and guitar, performed a set including covers of "When A Man Loves A Woman", "Lucille", "Land Of 1000 Dances", "In The Midnight Hour" and more. A full tracklist and review of the show is online (in Japanese) here.

Staubgold is releasing an album by The New Blockaders's side project Mixed Band Philanthropist. Originally released in 1987, The Impossible Humane is the only album the group ever recorded, a tape collage including contributions from Nurse With Wound, Andrew Chalk, P16.D4 and others, and includes two bonus tracks from 7" The Man Who Mistook A Real Woman For His Muse And Acted Accordingly.

A biography tracing David Sylvian's solo years has been published by former Sunday Times journalist Christopher E Young. On The Periphery traces Sylvian's career from the break up of Japan in 1982 up to the present day. Young travelled to Tokyo to research the book at the time of the 2011 earthquake, and will be donating a portion of proceedings to the Japan Society Earthquake Relief Fund. More details here.

David Tibet's Current 93 will release a new album next month, playing a live date at London Union Chapel on 8 February, a month to the day ahead of the album's release. The album includes contributions from Nick Cave, Andrew Liles, Antony Hegarty, Ossian Brown, John Zorn, James Blackshaw, plus members of The Groundhogs and These New Puritans, among others. I Am The Last Of All The Field That Fell will come in varying lengths of 68, 69, 70 and 71 minutes long. It hits shops a month after the Union Chapel release show at the beginning of March. Details on how and why the varying length to be revealed at copticcat.com, and show details here.

In the early 1990s you'd find the name Lee Bogush on 12"s on the Moving Shadow label released under the name DJ Harmony. Since these very 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 the jungle scene. He joins Derek Walmsley in the studio for a two and a half hour Adventures In Sound And Music special on 6 March to talk through the collection and how it came together. Over the course of this special show 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, and talking through his life in the drum 'n' bass from behind the record shop counter and within the roster of one of the greatest labels of all time.

Resonance FM, Thursday 6 March 2014, 8pm – 10:30pm

French film maker Jacqueline Caux has completed a film with Jeff Mills, which screens at the Louvre in Paris for the first time this February. The film is a non-narrative look at Mills's creative output, via sound and images and with only partial voiceover from Mills, using extracts from Caux's interviews with him. The film, titled Man From Tomorrow, shows on Sunday 2 February. More details here.

An exhibition of work by Matt Stokes opens on 1 February next year at Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool. Stokes is a film maker who documents subcultures, this exhibition includes work looking at northern soul and acid house, and for this exhibition will be showing his most important films alongside additional archival material.

Soul Jazz Records are releasing a new Punk 45 compilation, the snappily titled There Is No Such Thing As Society: Get A Job, Get A Car, Get A Bed, Get Drunk: Underground Punk And Post-Punk In The UK 1977-81, Vol 2. This volume follows on from the first on underground punk in America, and traces the rise of punk and post-punk in Britain in the late 70s through to the early 80s. Wire trivia: It includes a track by The Art Attacks, with The Wire's Edwin Pouncey on the mic. More details incoming on the February release here.