Iowa Basement Tapes

Night Listeners - Tonight we explore the Always Here Compilation that features curated music by Iowa trans artists. We also check out the new Traffic Death split and an artifact find from Pella. The After Darks - "Black Cat" / Rock N Roll is Dead (Quad Cities) CCD-C - "Clean my Bones" / Champagne Jams (Iowa City) Patron Saints - "If the Spirit Moves You" / Patron Saints (Quad Cities) Bloodless Gir...

Night Listeners - Week of two of spooky season. Finally the weather is perfect. I got some psychobilly from the Quad Cities. Some alien surf punk from Mason City. Outer space stoner metal from Dubuque.   The Afterdarks - "No Good" / Rock N Roll is Dead (Quad Cities) Chunks - "Chunks" / No Where to Hide (Iowa City) Phantom Lightkeeper - "Abominable" / Four Days at the Precipice (Cedar Rapids)...

Night Listeners -  The rain kinda sucks by spooky season is here! We are lifting out into October with style. I picked over a dozen eerie and weird tracks from Iowa's cauldron of spirits. Pitch Black Manor - "The Thing in the Woods" / The Halloween Scene (Quad Cities) Milk Duct Tape - "Gojira" (Iowa City) Greg Wheeler and the Poly Mall Cops - "You Make Me Spin" / Slimephone Surveilance (Des M...

Night Listeners - You folks have been so sick to send me all sorts of new material. I even opened up the flood gates to play more bands from border towns. Ten Grand - "Sometimes You Say the Wrong Thing... When You're Stupid (Scary Movie 3)" / Split with Mike Lust (Iowa City) In Loving Memory - "Great Day at Dawn" / A Gentler Sun (Des Moines) Followed by Ghosts - "Manifest Destiny" / The Entire Cit...

Night Listeners- We have another evening of new material. Thank you to everyone that responded to my post on the IBT Instagram account. Everything tonight is either a new band or a new track minus our prodigal sons, Captain Three Leg. Also first time play from the ORIGINAL dungeon synth master Larry "the Wizard" Sievers . Sundance - "Bone" / God Entered My Body Like a Body the Same Size (Des Moine...

Night Listeners - Sometimes a lot of time goes by and tons of bands release new albums, new projects start or I just completely miss out on a band who was short lived. Tonight's show is packed full of either new material or stuff I just completely missed out. Why Bother - "Come Undone" / Beyond Step One (Mason City) TV Cop - "Jean Jacket" / The State Riff of Iowa (Ottumwa) Slingshot - "Artichoke"...

Night Listeners -  I'm cruising around the state still. In the last week I have been in Sioux City, Dewitt, Long Grove and Bettendorf. I got a bunch wild tunes tonight. We are way behind in our interview schedule right now so hopefully this fall we can pick back up.   Purplish - "Just Like Heaven" (Spencer) Younger - "Chlorophyll" (Iowa City) Dishwater Blonde - "Other Half" / Dishwater Blond (Ceda...

Night Listeners - The annual Iowa Metal Underground Fest 2026 is here so if you are in Cedar Rapids get your butts to CSPS both Friday August 14th and Saturday August 15th. Tonight we got a good mix of loud jams from the last thirty years. Doktor Maxx - "Bucket of Screams" / Klowns of God (Cedar Rapids) Anesthesia - "Pain is Inevitable, Misery is Optional" / Pain is Inevitable, Misery is Optional...

Night Listeners- We are back this week and its August! We got a brand new play from The Fabulous F Bombs from Fort Dodge. We did into some old tunes from When Bitter Spring Sleeps, Idolist and Druids. Cough n Flop - "Die (If You Want To)" (Quad Cities) The Fabulous F Bombs - "This is Hallucination" (Fort Dodge) Bat Problem - "Born to Rust" / Can't Pass By (Des Moines) Catholic Werewolves - "Emotio...

Night Listeners- I am so sorry for being MIA for the last two weeks. I have been drowning in commercial and movie work.  But we are so back with an all electronics show playing bands from across the state who all dabble in the synth or wire world of instruments.  Finally Some Action - "Is This Your Party?" / Is This Your Party? (Keokuk) Zap Tura - "Protector" / Adaptasia (Des Moines) Nightrazor -...

Night Listeners - I am back on American soil. It is just as hot here as it was in the Caribbean. Tonight we got some hitters from The Rumours, Bat Problem and Camp Regret. We are building up for another round of interviews over the next few weeks. The Afterdarks - "Black Cat" / Rock n Roll is Dead (Quad Cities) The Rumours - "Electric Blues" / Suck It (Waterloo) Camp Regret - "Summer Venues" / Cam...

Night Listeners - Tonight we explore one of my favorite compilation series, The Iowa Compilation Volumes 1-6. I have played Vol 1 and 2 multiple times on this show but anything after that has been sparse. This series was the launching point for many music fans in Iowa. Super important to the state's history. The Tape-Beatles - "Ads Become the News" / It's Another Iowa Compilation... Uncharted Terr...

Night Listeners- I am on my second week down in the French Caribbean. Last week I recorded from Turks & Caicos. Since then I have been to Guadeloupe and now I am in Dominica. It's tropical and rains every half hour.  We got a new tune from Phantom Lightkeeper, Justin Beahm's doom surf rock project that had its debut album last year with its follow up coming out in August. Davenport Junior Theater...

Night Listeners - Four hundred episodes. Some of you have gotten married, had kids and maybe a divorce or two. I have produced and recorded four hundred episodes of Iowa Basement Tapes. Tonight I play sort of a greatest hits tonight. Lots of classic bangers from across the state. A big thank you to all of our listeners both on the radio and the podcast. The Tanks - "24 Hour Revenge Fantasy" / Epic...

Night Listeners -  Byron and Woodrow from Iowa Metal Underground on the show talking about the upcoming IMU Fest happening August 14th and 15th in Cedar Rapids. They also go into the upcoming releases from Festering Productions.   Ill Omen - "Reconfigured Remains" (Cedar Rapids) Ophidian Memory - "Resurrected Primordials" / Serephim (Des Moines) Toxic Hell - "Brutal Bastions" / Toxic Hell (Cedar R...

Night Listeners- We are back with a banger of show. Nothing new this week except some serious rippers from east to west. The Agrestix - "Follow Me to Hell" / Welcome to Hell (Davenport) Bovinophobic Bile Puddle - "Decompose Me" / BBP (Iowa City) The Tanks - "Dandruff Geniuses" / Skipping Pills (Iowa City) If I Could Just Get Some Sleep - "Do It" / Dead Nerves, Numb Hands (Dubuque) Running Man - "S...

Night Listeners- Tonight I have a very special guest, the KFMG station manager, Gary Monte. If it wasn't for Gary, Iowa Basement Tapes would never had happened. I am the type of person who needs motivation sometimes and he got the show green lit for the radio back in 2018. On June 30th, 2026, he will be retiring. We play his Iowa playlist and talk about his history with Iowa radio. House of Large...

Night Listeners - Packed show with lots of new bands (or at least new to me). A big shout out to the Nu World Mutants for sending me a copy of their new record. It absolutely rules and we drop one of the songs tonight. The Lime Wires -"Mirror Facing Mirrors" (Mason City) Nu World Mutants - "(No More Planes to) Karachi" / The World is Our Bowling Ball (Burlington) Clifford Hoyt - "The Chandelier Fa...

Night Listeners - Tonight's show is PACKED with all sorts of new material. Six bands/projects making their show debut. New tune from God's Hand, thisworlsisnotkind and Frontal Assault.  Sexy Cash - "Do You Want To Dance?" (Sioux City) Foxpelt - "Foxpelt Conniption" (Sioux City) Bat Problem - "Dance" / Can't Pass By (Des Moines) Lipstick Homicide - "Good Times" / The Stone of Opportunity (Iowa City...

Night Listeners-  This is a huge night for this show! First a brand new tune from Ill Omen, the first in two years. Second, Chuck Hoffman and Curtis Howard sent me the files for The Des Moines Four-Track Compilation Vol 1 LP. This is huge. I haven't played any song off of this record in over five years. I don't know what happened but Bandcamp would not let me download it anymore. So tonight we are...

  Night Listeners - We are premiering some new tunes tonight including songs from Bat Problem, God's Hand and Elegy. I want to also take a moment and wish a happy ten year anniversary to Frontal Assault who will be celebrating Friday night at CSPS in Cedar Rapids. Bat Problem - "Zero" / Can't Pass By (Des Moines) God's Hand - "Remodelled" (Iowa City) Fidgit Noise - "My Mommas Movin" / Fidgit Noise...

Night Listeners - We got a bunch of a new material tonight from Anchoress, Gunk Lung, Early Girl, TV Cop and Blist Her. Plus first time plays from Jayvee and Conocybefilaris. Anchoress - "Cnidaria" (Ames) Stickdog - "Bondage" / Human (Iowa City) thisworldisnotkind - "Object-Oriented Polyamory" / death (Iowa City) Bigby Woods - "Chokehold" / Here Goes Nothing (Des Moines) Early Girl - "Three Months...

Night Listeners - Tonight's show is packed to the brim. I dig out some very old tapes including A Child's Trust in God, Political Vomit and an early 2000s shoegaze gem called Followed by Ghosts. A Child's Trust in God -"Saturday Night" / Star Spangled Banana (Des Moines) Goalie Fight - "Koskinen" (Marshaltown) Centaur Noir -"Dancehall" (Quad Cities) Full Fathom Five - "The Man with a Concrete Face...

  Night Listeners - I am back from SxSW. A big thank you to Bensmasher for hosting last week. I'm here with some punk goodies plus a brand new band from Mac Stanfield called The High Bidders. The Horrors - "Back in the Cut" / The Horrors (Cedar Rapids) The Sno-Mans - "Cheese Cake USA" / This is So Cool (Waterloo) State Parks - "Run Home" (Ames) The Siouxer Rats - "Out of Sight" / Rat-tle and Shake...

Night Listeners - I am off to SXSW so Ben Smasher is taking the wheel. He literally pulled together a playlist that I would never dream of. Give him a follow on his respected IG Accounts: @bensmasher and @brainsmasher You a should also checkout his Youtube Channel: Brainsmasher666 These Days - "Only What You Need" (Iowa City) Al's Untouchables - "Stick Around" (Cedar Rapids) Brillo & The Firebirds...