the-breakdown.net with Costa Zouliou

Gday Folks, it’s time for Episode four of Grumpy Jukebox. What do you get if you stick 3 old mates in a virtual studio, one in Melbourne, one in Sydney and one in Brisbane with a bit of time on their hands and nothing better to do than sit around and talk shit, just like they used to but back in the day we were paid for the privilege, now we do it for love. Love of music, love of the new and surpr...

G’day Folks. Wanna know what three grumpy old blokes have been listening to over the last couple of weeks? Not just any old grumps, this lot are legends in their own Grumpy Jukebox. Francis Leach, Robbie Buck and myself have decided to have a yack about new music. Robbie takes us to the world of funk with FAM - Disco Blaxploitation, Francis drops a Dick Move and I’m pretty happy with the new recor...

Gday Folks. Here is episode 2 of Grumpy Jukebox. Francis Leach and I are joined by Robbie Buck. We talk new music, Little Simz, Ngaiire and Blackwater Holylight as well as the perils of shrinkage during a winter solstice swim and oh Iggy you have a biggie. All that and more on Grumpy Jukebox, you never know what might be playing.....

Lontano is an Italian term meaning "far away". It's also the name of a long-distance collaboration between songwriters Anthony Dettori and Roz Pappalardo, who share Italian-Australian heritage and a love of spacious, earthy, alt-country storytelling. Lontano's approach melds different perspectives to unearth surprising new musical narratives, not completely autobiographical, but not fictional eith...

Gday Costa Zouliou here with you and I have a new addition to the-breakdown.net . I've collaborated with my good mate Francis Leach to have a bit of a yack about new music, fashion,books, festivals, gigs or whatever has come across our ears and eyes over the last few weeks. What's new? What's surprised us? WTF? This is the pilot, so we hope you enjoy it.

Necrosonic Festival 2026 - Well it's back and it's bigger and darker than ever. Costa Zouliou talks to Kent Haines, promoter of the Necrosonic Festival that happens in Brisbane on Saturday August 22 with headliners Rivers of Nihil from the U.S. and Tasmania's Psycroptic. If that's not enough Segression are back from the dead and Chris Rand from the band tells us what it's like to back and heading...

Thanks for joining us here on the-breakdown.net my name is Costa Zouliou and lucky enough today to be having a chat with William Crighton. William’s third album Water and Dust won an ARIA for Best Blues and Roots Album in 2022 and March 20 2026 sees the release of the follow up to Water and Dust and it’s titled Colonial Drift and then William will take Colonial Drift out on the road for a national...

Late Last year Dom Mariani released his second solo record called Apple of Life.   Dom was the driving force behind 80’s garage rock band The Stems with songs like Sad Girl and At First Sight and later in the 90’s he formed DM3, you might remember power pop tracks like, Foolish and 1 Time, 2 Times Devastated and Melt Away from The Someloves before that.   If you can remember any of those tracks an...

Buzz Bidstrup first came to national attention as the drummer for one of Australia’s most prominent and most important bands, The Angels. The classic lineup of Buzz on drums the late Chris Bailey on bass, Rick Brewster on lead guitar, John Brewster on rhythm guitar and the one and only Bernard Doc Neeson on vocals were seldom bettered in the beer barns of the 70’s and 80’s all over Australia. He’s...

The Tea Party - Jeff Martin The Tea Party have a five-date run called the “Elements” Tour, including two unique shows playing with an orchestra in both Melbourne and Sydney under the baton of Sarah-Grace Williams. That’s the “Wind Element” of the tour and the three other dates are the “Fire Elements” with The Tea Party in full band mode.   Have a listen and don't forget to subscribe to the youtube...

Jim Moginie and the Family Dog have released a brand new record called Thunk. With a line-up boasting Kent Steedman on Guitar and Paul Larsen Loughhead on drums both ex Celibate Rifles and Tim Kevin from Youth Group and Midnight Oil’s mad professor Jim Moginie, you’d be right to expect an album full of surf, punk and angular guitar sounds, and that's exactly what you get. The band hit the road ear...

Jim Moginie and the Family Dog have released a brand new record called Thunk. With a line-up boasting Kent Steedman on Guitar and Paul Larsen Loughhead on drums both ex Celibate Rifles and Tim Kevin from Youth Group and Midnight Oil’s mad professor Jim Moginie, you’d be right to expect an album full of surf, punk and angular guitar sounds, and that's exactly what you get. The band hit the road ear...