We like to stay away from any bias here – we do love Melbourne street art, and if you take a look through the pages here, sure, there are a shitload of events and such happening in Melbourne – but the same can be said for every other city in Oz too, its fkn heaving. In the past few weeks there has been so much going on across the country that its been hard to keep up, and it doesn’t look like slowing down any time soon. Australia’s street art scene is rocking, as is its entire “low brow” scene – and it has been for some time. Adelaide is pumping, Perth is producing swath of great artists, Brisbane creatives and the cities galleries are putting on amazing shows, Sydneys scene is, without a doubt, one of the best in the land and the rest of the country is following suit!

Why do we mention this? Well, two reasons – one, someone mentioned to us that we’re pretty Melbourne-centric. Fair call, but shit, you can see how much is happening here for yourself, and we cover as much as possible outside of here at every chance we can get! Secondly? Well, because in each city across Australia there are small havens of explosive art dotted amongst the metros areas – and, in the coming weeks, we’re going to be doing exposes on suburbs around Australia that have a high concentration of creative oomph. We have a few lined up, but at this stage they’re mostly Melbourne, because that’s our ‘hood here, but if anyone out there has suggestions for places you’d like us to cover elsewhere, or if you’d like to do a small write up and send us some pics of one of your favourite suburbs, adorned with mad art, then just contact us … because as much as we do love Melbourne, and as much as we cover a lot of the ‘burns shit here, it aint the be all and end all of all the cool stuff happening, both continentally, and across the ditch …

Oh yeah, and on that, you may have noticed that our love isn’t confined to just these shores any more, and as of last week we are full swing into our coverage of New Zealand street art and its ilk – we already have some great interviews, event and exhibition news, and we hope you enjoy our new section!

Anyways, hey its been a while between shit-talking – on to the wrap!

News and Miscellanea …

• Askew has opened up a new online shop – lots of cool merch from a very cool artist!
• So it was released a few months ago, but we saw it up on Nice Produce, so we’ll link to it too – Rackgaki is a great Japanese graff doco from a  few years ago – watch!
• Acclaim put up another Carbon recap video – this one is grand! Very inspiring and great to watch. Oh yeah, they also just went digital as well, woot!
• We’ll throw it into next weeks Transmissions, but here’s the preview video for the Everfresh studio at the NGV that starts next week.
• Nice Produce have a sale going on right now – you can get a whole bunch of dope Aussie artist wares for cheap – some amazing clothing on there!
• Support the amazing Dont Sleep magazine by going to buy some of their new shirts!
• We’re so not beyond pimping our mates – that’s what the wrap is for! haha … and our good friend Fergus, a well known local DJ and internationally acclaimed music producer,  has just released a bunch of new tracks in a glitch-hop-ish side project, Oddphonic. We recommend a listen, stat.

Pics And Images From Around The Traps …

• Those cool Prahran cats, T-Squat, have put up a great bunch of pics of recent street art activity in the Prahran area – things are definitely a-changing …
• We love Drab, what can we say? And we also love what Heesco painted, live, at Urban Art Throwup at the BSG last week (the show is still on, get down and see it!).
• The Opening Hours posted up some great pics from Makatrons latest adventures. They also have some great pics of Listers upcoming work for his Europe show.
• Check out this great bunch of pics from Ironlak done by members of the TMD, RTR and FDKNS crews over in New Zealand – mint.
• Dean Sunshine posted up some really cool stuff this week as well. Pics from the Fibre Femmes opening last Friday (which was an amazing show!), as well as a new collection of Melbourne Paste Up images – love this site.
• Lo-fi posted these grand images that Numskull and Roachy did on the El Capo cantina in Sydney
• Those wicked West Coasters, Last Chance, put up a bunch of pics from their recent exhibition up at Port Headland last month!
• Strobed also put up some awesome images from Bennets Oranges & Lemons show up in Sydney at the now, sadly closed but never forgotten Oh Really Gallery.

Also, don’t forget to check out the Transmissions for lots of cool Oz-centric videos from the past few months! That’s a wrap from us this week, have a good one!