Iowa Basement Tapes

Night Listeners- It's thrash city time! A full show of every flavor of metal that you could think of. We got course thrash metal, hair metal, doom metal, sludge metal, and pizza metal. If Head Bangers Ball did an Iowa show this would be it. White Hott - "Running for My Life" / Angel in Leather (Des Moines) Frontal Assault - "Beaming Technology" / 10 Beer Plan (Cedar Rapids) Roze - "Dead Men Get No...

Night Listeners -  We have a loud night ahead of us! New music from the legendary Captain Three Leg. First time plays from Bodiah and Worm Dot Net. We stoned with Twin Wizard and fall into the subconscious jams of Underlords of the Overworld. The Pestilents - "Unkown Solider" / Obedience is Suicide (Iowa City) Captain Three Leg - "W.Y.W.D." / W.Y.W.D . (Ottumwa) Citrus Boy - "Difficult Stew" / Con...

Night Listeners - Lots of first time plays! Mainstreet Blake, chaircrusher, Preachers & Herb, and Veil of the Forsaken. Plus new tunes from Chemical Buffet and Hairless Monk. Running Man - "dead heavens" / Running Man (Quad Cities) Why Bother - " Heroin Dancer" / Serenading Unwanted Ballads (Mason City) Dispensing of False Halos - "Most Fragile Days" / Dispensing of False Halos (Des Moines) Mad Wh...

Night Listeners - This interview is six years in the making, To celebrate our 300th episode we have Andy Koettle of the legendary Captain Three Leg. C3L has been my favorite band from Iowa for nearly ten years. They are the longest running grindcore/punk/whatever band that has now been going for 28 years. Captain Three Leg - "How Much is that Meat?" / split with Vanishing Cities (Ottumwa) Captain...

Night Listeners - I almost would call tonight's show a thrash city. New tunes from Why Bother, Frontal Assault and Envenom Ascension. Noise krunk from E H I and Gloaming. Plus a tune off the very first Druids tape release, Pray for Water . Why Bother - "Nullity" / Serenading Unwanted Ballads (Mason City) Ritual of Agony - "Mother Earth" / Ritual of Agony (Des Moines) Doktor Maxx - "Hungry" / Clown...

Night Listeners - This episode got delayed in getting uploaded after the broadcast due to the wild couple of weeks I have had. I have unfortunately forgotten what the playlist is and I don't feel like scrubbing through the episode to figure it out. But hey it can be a surprise for all of us. Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: Instagram Follow Kristian Day on: Instagram | Twitter (not doing much with i...

Night Listeners - I'd say spring has sprung. Brand new tunes from the just released Frontal Assault/Ill Omen split. A live recording from Maul of America's performance at the Bad Friday Noise Fest in March. Plus some classics from the late 80s and early 90s. Zuul - "Blowing' Kisses Makin' Wishes" / Zuul (Iowa City) Frontal Assault - "30 Rack Atttack" / 10 Beer Plan (Cedar Rapids) Ill Omen - "Power...

Night Listeners- It's April lets go! I pulled out some tracks from All Iowa Noise Insurgency cassette compilation. Also in a month we will be celebrating 300 episodes of this damn show. Ten Grand - "Get Out of My Dojo" / This is the Way to Rule (Iowa City) ZED - "Zombo" / Unfinished Business (Bettendorf) Why Bother - "Shells" / A City of Unsolved Miseries (Mason City) Underlords of the Overworld -...

Night Listeners - Our last show for March 2024 and we come in loud, take a nap in the middle, and the rage at the end. I wish I could still live my days that way. New songs from Huxley Madeline, Moss Troll, and Hot Sorry.   Joretta Oaks - "High School" / Ichirus Falls (Ottumwa) Mike Vallely & The Complete Disaster - "The Best of the Best" / The Best of the Best EP (Des Moines) Glass Ox - "Fear Rid...

Night Listeners - I didn't mean to take us back to 2012 for most of the show but here we are. From over ten years ago we have tunes from Trouble Lights, Big Box, and Billy Crystal Meth. First time plays from Running Man and Chrash. Plus new material from Chemical Buffet. Running Man - "Chosen One" / Running Man (Quad Cities) CR Dicks - "The Ends" / Dick Moves (Cedar Rapids) Early Girl - "Red Lips"...

Night Listeners - We are trying something different tonight and everything is electronic. I don't know if this was the right move or not but in true IBT fashion we have a pro-produced slick tracks mixed with the best of the bedroom electronic noise projects. One note I want to make is the inclusion of both EHI and Deerslayer. EHI was a Des Moines based noise project by Brian Noring who also starte...

Night Listeners -  Busy week here BUT we got some first time plays from Rantional Anthem, landethics, lil' Pricky and Denny Richards. Most of that is all Iowa City based projects minus lil' Pricky (and what a name that is).  Dug out the old Bongrider tape that I bought many many moons ago.  Captain Three Leg - "How Much is that Meat?" / split with Vanishing Cities (Ottumwa) Captain Three Leg - "Di...

Night Listeners - We are back to our regular format show. Tonight we go down a weird road. Its a mix of hardcore and weird electronic homebrew madness. Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: Instagram Follow Kristian Day on: Instagram | Twitter (not doing much with it currently) Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com and download any of t...

Night Listeners - Grab some beers and come hang with the boys from Cedar Rapids: Ill Omen and Frontal Assault. All six members are on the show tonight talking metal, high school, playing shows and sharing their Iowa playlist. Ill Omen feat Frontal Assault - "Born to Kill" (Cedar Rapids) Pit Lord - "Butchers from Beyond" / Gallery of Skewers (Davenport) Fishbait - "Blue Lagoon" / Fishbait (Iowa Cit...

Night Listeners - Lots of old stuff tonight that I dug out of the crawl space minus that brand new track from Pit Lord that just dropped this week. A.R.M. - "Burning Rubber" / Away Rots Man (Iowa City) Pit Lord - "Griller" / Gospel of the Smokaine Forest (Davenport) Skamp - "Empurpling Irk" / In Muted Panic (Dubuque) Stiff Legged Sheep - "Alligator" / Final Recording (Iowa City) Ambush #5 - "Butte...

Night Listeners -  I have been in Dubuque all week so naturally I am getting sucked into the dread filled musical landscape. Playing only tunes whose origins come from the first city in Iowa. Lots of doom, psychedelic, and experimental mashups. Telekinetic Yeti - " Cult of Yeti" / Primordial (Dubuque) Hot Carl - "It's Too Bad You Are Not Having Fun" / It Hits the Sauce (Dubuque) Dick Hubert - " Ro...

Night Listeners - Back to form with some first time plays! We got Nostromo, If I could Just Get Some Sleep, and Otis (we may have played Otis). February is going to be a busy month. We got at least two interviews plus sponsoring our first show in Cedar Rapids on March 1st! Meth and Goats - "Comedy K" / Attack from Meth and Goats Mountain (Davenport) Human Error - "MIG 21" / Die (Iowa City) Nostrom...

Night Listeners - The universe can only stand in our way for so long. Tonight we finally have Haploid with us at the KFMG studios in downtown Des Moines. We talk about their origins from growing inside a lab buried beneath the Mississippi, Dubuque's experimental music scene, and we give station manager Gary psychedelics. Haploid - "Rejectamenta" / Villans Amiss (Des Moines) Skin of Earth - "Horset...

Night Listeners - Here are on this iceberg I have been cooking up this packed show with the return of some old friends including Traffic Death, Sonic Disruption Theory, Captain Three Leg, Karen Meat and Ophidian Memory. Step Child - "Hey" / The Prayer (Marshalltown) Sonic Disruption Theory - "In A Groove" / Eleven Parts (Iowa City) Traffic Death - "In The Dark" / Judas Curse of the Iron Sabbath (D...

Night Listeners - We were supposed have Haploid on this week but we had that damn blizzard. Later this month its happening!  Tonight we got bangers from Megapunch, Strong Like Bear, Preacher Gone to Texas and Pitch Black Manor! Also that amazing collaboration tune Born to Die from Ill Omen and Frontal Assault. Megapunch - "Magic Carpet Ride" / Skyward (Iowa City) Strong Like Bear - "Three Wizards"...

Night Listeners - Here is our first show of 2024 and we come in hot with The Brix and their cocaine fueled pop punk. We also got first time plays from Centaur Noir, Bryon Dudley, Burn the Ailment, and straight edge hardcore act Chain of Command. The Brix - "White Lines" / Cupboards Zine Issue 3 Comp (Quad Cities) The Pestilents - "Glorious Death" / Obedience is Suicide (Iowa City) Breakdance - "Ur...

Night Listeners -  Here it is! Our last show for 2023 which is mind boggling. I am sure I say that every year. 2024 takes will take Iowa Basement Tapes into it's sixth year on the air which is wild to think. To end our year we have Captain Three Leg, Blizzard at Sea, Blist Her, Clarisse, Bottledog, Is World, and Musician. Happy New Year to all of our listeners and we will see you on the other side...

Night Listeners - We are back to our normal music show and we debut an unheard track from unheard of band called Black Death. This band features members from Shamrock Shakes. We also bring back Waverly, Seppuku, and Modern Life Is War. Black Death - ? / Live in DSM (Ames) 7inchWave - "1.44MB Floppy Disc Single" (Ames) Ice Hockey - "In the Air Tonight" / live (Quad Cities) X-Ray Mary - "They're Com...

Night Listeners - Tonight we have a wonderful treat with a second guest this month! Aaron Longoria of Early Girl is on the show. One of my favorite discoveries of 2023 and a listener favorite. We play their Iowa playlist that is filled with some first time listens for me. Early Girl - "If I Could" (Iowa City) Maaaze - "Wisdom Tooth"  (Iowa City) Basketball Divorce Court - "Oops! We don’t use that...

Night Listeners - I have been teasing this interview for almost two months! Curt Howard of Chemical Buffet is our guest. Chemical Buffet was a project I discovered just from doing this show. Chuck Hoffman contributed a trash bag of demo tapes almost four years ago and one of those tapes was the original five song sampler for Chemical Buffet. Fast forward a few years later I meet Curt through mutua...