Iowa Basement Tapes

Night Listeners - I have been on a Wych Elm kick this week. Picked up the two Milk Sickness records from Sump Pump and they absolutely rule. Tonight I premiere the new single When Bitter Spring Sleeps and some goodies from a collection of recordings from my good buddy Mark Heggen. Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com and downloa...

Night Listeners - You probably noticed about 3-4 week delay with me getting old shows up. Commercial season picked back up and I have been on back to back shows. Anyways enough about my life. Tonight I got some new material to share including more tunes from the Mark Heggen collection. Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com and do...

Night Listeners - I feel like I have avoided playing tunes from Ames because I have always thought that the music from that city was extremely self indulgent. But I have come to love that about Ames. So tonight I got some new tunes from Stars Hollow. They do some loud emo pop stuff that some of you might enjoy. I also have two tunes from the new Traffic Death / Captain Three Leg split 12". On...

Night Listeners, Tonight studio manager Gary and I sit down with Jeff Morgan formally of Squidboy and currently the bass player for the band No Good Deed. He brings us his Iowa playlist plus we get to hear a rough mix of a new song from the upcoming album from No Good Deed. Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com and download any o...

Night Listeners - Tonight I mixed a lot of new with some old (and some really old). New material from Druids and Finally Some Action and a long lost release from the Cedar Rapids progressive stoner rock legends Truth and Janey. I also dig deep into the crates of Ottumwa's 90s section with Gristle (major Primus worship) and Scat (instrumental power metal). Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of...

Night Listeners - I am all over the place tonight with tunes from every part of the state: Sioux City, Des Moines, Waterloo, Waverly, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Clinton, Keokuk, and Dubuque. I was presented with an email earlier in the week from Bensmasher sharing with me some really interesting finds. One of the most interesting is a group from Clinton called Mississippi Belle. Two boat captains wh...

Night Listeners - To continue on with my travelogue shows I am now in West Point, NY. On the flight I got to finally explore some tunes by the band Nethervoid. Tim Connery whom I have worked with on film projects up in the Dubuque area used to be in this band with members of The Tanks (hence the double location mention). Nethervoid put out two albums, an EP, and a demo during their short lifespan....

Night Listeners - Happy 40th episode! Tonight's a return to form for Iowa Basement Tapes and I haven't been this excited since to share some tunes since those early shows back on 98.9FM KFMG. Lots of first time plays tonight including Trouble Lights, Stewardesses, Road Soda, Hairless Monk, Catholic Werewolves, Erik Johnson, The Spider Magnets, and Hoyer Hoper. All I can say is welcome to party tow...

Night Listeners - March is just about over and I am up in Dubuque walking around without a jacket... freedom from the winter's enslavement is near! Tonight I have some weird tunes and some new tunes. The new tunes include Druids from Des Moines and Cockroach Dominion from Cedar Rapids. The weird tunes include the A side from a 1969 tribute record to the late sports radio announcer Bill Sass from W...

Night Listeners - Tonight I am recording my show from the deepest part of Texas. I am in the city of Marfa. If you don't know about it you should give it a Google. I also spent some time at SXSW last week which was O.K. I am not party guy so I don't care about anything past the tacos. This week's playlist was carefully planned to not include as many Des Moines acts because I tend to focus on them...

Night Listeners - My long overdue conversation with Trey Reis is finally here. Trey started the Warm Gospel label several years ago and it now has nearly seventy releases. Nearly everything I play on tonight's show comes from a Warm Gospel release. Plus some new synth pop from Keokuk's Finally Some Action. A big shout out to my boy Justin Beahm for giving me some incite on them. Be sure to check o...

Night Listeners -I recorded this week's show in North Hollywood, California and it is rainy AF. I got tunes tonight from Alex Body, The Ruralists and Space Burial. It's a doom pop dance party if I do say so myself. Hear us every Thursday at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines & KCOE - Coe College Cedar Rapids . You can now hear us every Friday at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI...

Nigh Listeners - Our final February show of 2019 is upon us! This cold has got me super bummed so I am escaping to Los Angeles and will be producing the show in North Hollywood. I might even have some guests on too. Tonight I got some tunes from as far back as 1966 and as recent as January of this year. Hear us every Thursday at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines & KCOE - Coe College Cedar Rapids...

Night Listeners Finally, the interview with Luke Belknap (Goldblums / Huxley Maxwell / Person Whale / The Beaches / Austrinaut / Vivacious Bean Dip) has happened. He joins us in the KFMG studios in Des Moines with my engineer/co-host studio manager Gary Monte. Belknap talks about all the projects he is in and some of the primitive recording techniques used on his records. He shares with us his pla...

Night Listeners - Happy Valentines Day! I hope you all enjoyed my note from Harry Warden at the beginning of the show. Tonight I popped in a few loves songs from Captain Three Leg, Elizabeth Moen, and well let's call the track from Three Finger Better Betty a love song too (it's probably not a love song for another a human). First time jams tonight from TV Cop out of Ottumwa. They are straight out...

Night Listeners - I got some classic punk goodies including some stuff from the late 80s. I got some new blood from Annalibera, Tuff Jerks, and Huxley Maxwell. Hear us every Thursday at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines & KCOE - Coe College Cedar Rapids . You can now hear us every Friday at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji . If you miss the show please subscribe to th...

Night Listeners - I am recording the show this week from Bryan, Texas. I'm sharing a hotel room with Dylan Sires and as I sit producing this weeks content he is blasting through the forward of a new book. So he will not actually be joining me on this weeks episode. I got new material from Artificial Stars in Sioux City. They have a tight alternative/pop sound going for them that I think everyone w...

Night Listeners - Welcome to episode 30 of Iowa Basement Tapes and two new radio stations: KWIT 90.3FM & KOJI 90.7FM on Siouxland Public Media which covers the western Iowa area of Sioux City, northeastern Nebraska and the southeast edge of South Dakota. I'm stoked to be hitting their listeners every Friday night from 11PM to midnight. Don't forget you can also listen to the show every Thursda...

Night Listeners - Iowa Basement Tapes is back this week and its super heavy! I found the remains of the old Iowa Hadcore.com site which is now iowahardcore.blogger.com and found all kinds of goodies including The Tanks, Solid Attitude, and Through Hard Times. Good Ol' Bensmasher also informed me that Sludgeplow's Turned Earth album got remastered and re-released this past October. GET IT. A shout...

Night Listeners - It's a no wave new year here at Iowa Basement Tapes. I promise next week I will bring back some groovy happiness but first I got some new tunes (new to me at least) from Lucy Bucket from Cedar Rapids, a new demo from the CR Dicks (get it while you can), and some juicy electronic stew from Polybond. Listen to the show live every Thursday at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines and KCOE...

Night listeners, It's the first show for 2019! I got a handful of tunes from Sioux City, Cedar Falls, and Des Moines. I'm hitting the record stores and digging through crates. Just got back from Dubuque and went searching through some bins at CDs 4 Change. Picked up a noise album from Boar. I probably can't play that on any of the radio stations I am currently broadcasting on... #trustkristianday...

Night Listeners - This is the final broadcast for 2018. We have a had a hell of a good year since we started back in July. Lots of great tunes and conversations with artists and fans alike. Tires - "8" / Tires (Des Moines) Waverly - "Do and Don't Leave" / Fledgling (Iowa City) Spidercake - "Skin Graft Jazz" / Spidercake (Des Moines) Piss Exorcist - "Mouth Rot&quo...

Night Listeners - Christmas is next week and I am chilling in the basement of Dylan Sires' Dad's house in Waterloo, Iowa. I bet no one saw that coming. Dylan is upstairs, I asked if he wanted to join me tonight for the show and he politely declined. I play a lot of chill music with a dash of noise with metal for dessert. Winter is a weird time for music. I hate going to shows because it's too cold...

Night Listeners - Tonight is the conclusion of my interview with Adam Groves (The PeePees, Brazil, Wheel & the Fence, & Deerslayer). He talks about passing the guard and gets candid about the early days with William Elliot Whitmore. I play another handful of tunes from Cedar Rapids including all of Adam's bands plus a solo project from Adam Caffrey who is known for his work in The Horrors...

Night listeners - Tonight I played part one of my interview with former Cedar Rapids native Adam Groves. He played bass and sang in the PeePee's, Wheel and the Fence, and Brazil. He is also the artist behind one of my favorite musical acts, Deerslayer. He currently resides in Singapore so when I recorded him it was 11AM CST but it was 11PM Singapore time. The quality is a little rough at times as...