R Stevie Moore, this month's Wire cover star star, is giving away a free album via his Bandcamp page. Listen and download below.

The album is titled PLEASE LEAVE!, and was originally released on 29 February 2012. PLEASE LEAVE! will be available for a limited time only (no set dates on this, just know that it's not forever).

Prurient aka Dominick Fernow, has a new label called Bed Of Nails. The first release will be a 12" by Fernow under his Vatican Shadow moniker, titled September Cell. The label is reported to be focusing on Industrial dancefloor rhythms, and the four track 12" will be released on 18 June in a run of 700.

The label is run by Boomkat, and curated by Fernow in a similar setup to The Death Of Rave imprint which is releasing Mark Leckey's Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore. More info imminent at Boomkat.

Vicki Bennett (aka People Like Us) is releasing a feature film titled The Zone, a feature-length dual screen film tracking two journeys from The Wizard Of Oz and Stalker, which "tells one story of two journeys to the promised land, the world where dreams can be made real and reality is like a dream".

Bennett says: "It was initially inspired by the fact that both films start in monotone then switch to colour at the breakthrough point where they cross over to the other side, or The Zone, as it's called in Stalker."

The Zone will be distributed by LUX for screenings at film festivals and galleries in the coming weeks.

UPDATE: The Zone has been withdrawn from circulation following a legal claim by Mosfilm, owners of Stalker. More on that story here.

Crossfire Publications is releasing a 5CD collection of archive recordings from the Pal studio, including over 50 recordings made with Frank Zappa in his pre-Mothers Of Invention days. Paul Buff Presents Highlights From The Pal And Original Sound Studio Archives contains recordings of in house players and various surfer groups, and 58 tracks with Zappa as performer, writer or producer.

Paul Buff opened the studio in the late 50s in Cucamonga California. A self-taught engineer, he built a home made mixing desk into a dressing table, and had one of the few multi-track recorders available at the time. Frank Zappa later bought the studio from Buff, and changed its name to Studio Z. The compilation is released on 28 May. Full track listing and more info at crossfirepublications.com.

Film maker EA Moore is crowdfunding the distribution of a documentary on rapper Sensational. The film, titled The Rise And Fall And Rise Of Sensational, is complete and has been screened at film festivals in Canada, Germany and Northern Ireland. Moore is seeking $14,000 to pay for additional editing, licensing and legal fees, insurance and DVD production.

Moore tracked and filmed Sensational for five years after meeting him pushing CDs on a street corner in Manhattan and the film contains interviews with Bill Laswell, Mike G, Skiz Fernando and Curver Thoroddsen (Ghostigital). As always with Kickstarter, if the target is not met, the project gets zilch. Watch a trailer for the film below. It was reviewed in The Wire 324.

Reggae legend Niney The Observer will be performing at the London Jazz Festival later this year. Niney will be joined by The Mafia & Fluxy Band – brothers Leroy 'Mafia' Heywood and Dave 'Fluxy' Heywood who became known as part of The Instigators in the 70s.

Niney plays London XOYO on 15 November, and the London Jazz Festival takes place 9–18 November. Also playing the 2012 festival is Shabaka Hutchings, Sonny Rollins, Bill Frisell, Jan Garbarek and others. More details here.

UPDATE: The Niney The Observer show will now take place on 17 November, at London's XOYO.

On Tuesday 22 May The Wire's Derek Walmsley and Rob Young go in search of Scotty Engel, also known as Noel Scott Engel, or the man who now goes by the stage name he adopted almost 50 years ago, Scott Walker.

To coincide with the publication of No Regrets: Writings On Scott Walker, a collection of essays put together by The Wire magazine in conjunction with Orion Books, the show will explore the hidden roots and strange branches of the work of Scott Walker, from his late 1950s pre-career as a child star in Denver through the epic Scott solo albums and the lost years of 70s MOR through to the apocalyptic visions of his later works Climate Of Hunter, Tilt, and The Drift.

Derek and Rob will be playing the eclectic, not to say perverse mix of musics Scott has attempted to synthesise in his music – Jacques Brel, Bartok, anarchist and balladeer Léo Ferré, Gregorian chant – and discussing his strange journey through the worlds of the pop mainstream through light entertainment and Country to carve out an idiosyncratic niche as the author of intense and personal visions mapping the edges of human existence.

Drawn together from over 50 years of music and recording, there will be spoken word rarities, interview and TV broadcasts, B sides and dark corners of his career that Scott himself has attempted to forget.

Resonance 104.4 FM for Londoners, streamed live for the the rest of the world. 22 May, 9:30pm–12am.

Mille Plateaux cohorts Terre Thaemlitz (aka DJ Sprinkles) and Mark Fell of snd, have just released a joint production on Thaemlitz’s own Comatonse Recordings.

Titled Complete Spiral, the EP was recorded last year and it draws on Fell’s sense of reduced funk and Thaemlitz’s NY House references. The latter is also expected to release a 32 hour SD card album titled Soulnessless later this month.

Will Shutes and Jess Chandler's Test Centre publishing house (which launched in January with Iain Sinclair spoken word LP Stone Tape Shuffle) is starting a weekly hour long radio show on Resonance FM (starting today). The Test Centre show will run for 11 weeks every Thursday at 7pm, and will discuss and play spoken word records and poetry.

Test Centre are also gearing up for their second release, an LP recorded with author and filmmaker Chris Petit. More details on Test Centre here. Londoners can tune in to Resonance at 104.4FM and those outside the capital can stream online at resonancefm.com.

A documentary on Keiji Haino will be screened in Tokyo in July. The film, titled Document: Keiji Haino, is directed by Kazuhiro Shirao, and includes clips of live performances and extracts from dozens of hours of interviews with Haino, plus members of Fushitsusha.

The film opens on 7 July at Theatre N in Shibuya, Tokyo. A full site for the film is launching in the coming weeks, but some scant details (largely in Japanese) can be found here.

[Thanks to Alan Cummings for help with translation.]