Iowa Basement Tapes

Night Listeners - I am starting my 21 day stay in Iowa City on feature film shoot so I am packing in a lot of eastern Iowa tunes over the next few weeks. Lots of Brazil, Deerslayer, and goodies from the 319 world. Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com and download any of the releases for free. If you would like to contribute any...

Night Listeners - Week 2 of me hanging in Iowa City. I'm on a grueling schedule with a six day week working on a split schedule that is killing my vibes. But I am digging out a lot of eastern Iowa tunes tonight. I don't think I have played Only Ten Between on the program yet. I remember them coming through Cedar Rapids from Davenport for some community center shows. Iowa Basement Tapes has its own...

Night Listeners - I am recording in Farmington, New Mexico. The most northern tip where I am about an hour away from Mesa Verde in southern Colorado. Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com and download any of the releases for free. If you would like to contribute any music please send an email to kristianday@gmail.com. Hear us eve...

Night Listeners- July is coming to a close and I am about to hop a plane back to New Mexico. Tonight I bring you tunes from Person Whale, Drednex, Skyscraper, and some other dodgy bands. I don't have a whole lot to say as I will be temporarily relocating to Iowa City for the month of August. More on that later... Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out iowabasem...

Night Listeners - Tonight I am recording in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This show breaks new grounds with bands from three new cities: Shadrack Chameleon from Humboldt, Zini from Lamoni (yes you read correctly) and No Coast Criminals from Independence. I also got a ton of new bands that I have never played before. Lots of garage psychedelic and lots of punk. Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Io...

Night Listeners - I'm recording from sunny lukewarm Los Angeles. Tonight I bring you some tracks from the All Iowa Noise Insurgency cassette compilation. These are the more mellow/drone pieces from Seezureface and Under Escape from the Black Hole. I also share tunes from the now defunct Bongrider and Gloaming, two Iowa City doom projects. Well Gloaming isn't doom, but it fits right in. Also a supe...

Night Listeners - It has been one year since Iowa Basement Tapes hit the airwaves. The first show aired July 5th 2018 at 9PM on 98.9 FM KFMG - Des Moines. I know most of you who listen to this show now probably won't be listening tonight as it is the 4th of July (by the way HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!). I do this show every week no matter what. If I am sick, if my cat passed away (both happened), or if...

Night Listeners - We have a really heavy show tonight. It's probably the most talking we have ever done on this show and it is also our loudest show to date. My guest Nate Phillips ( Traffic Death / ex Black Market Fetus ) talks his his story in the Iowa music scene and he brings with him his Iowa playlist full of tunes I have never played before. Discussions include the early days of the Iowa har...

Night Listeners, Summer solstice is here and I have lots of new tunes this week including Fairhaven, a ska band from Davenport, The Mighty Accelerator from Ottumwa, and Sharing Mass Graves from Cedar Rapids. Adam Groves has also sent the archives of Deerslayer which I will be rolling out over the next few weeks on the Iowa Basement Tapes Bandcamp page. Hear us every Thursday at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG...

Night Listeners - 50 weeks this show has been on the air and I have never missed a show since it began. It's a milestone show so I am playing some of my favorites since the beginning including CR Dicks, Captain Three Leg, Movable Feast, Deerslayer and more. It's a banger of a show! Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com and downlo...

Night Listeners - May is coming to an end and summer is almost here. I have a lot of guests whom I have been waiting to get on the show but they all have kids so summer might be the only time to do it. Tonight I got new material from Extravision, DJ DJ Tanner, and Bryon Dudley. Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com and download a...

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...