Iowa Basement Tapes

Night Listeners - That rumble you hear is my voice melting away into the either. We have a packed show tonight because I am losing my voice. First time plays from Good Habits, Lshapedpool, Stateparks, Everything Had Teeth and White Death. Woodcreeper - "Cresset Syndrome" (Dubuque) Good Habits - "Blackout Beach" / Full Groan (Iowa City) Nerv - "Zits" / 2 (Iowa City) Lshapedpool - "I've Been Eating...

Night Listeners -  Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all are stuffed to the gills and ready jam some tunes with me for an hour. On the menu tonight I have some warm hippie love from Goldblums, punk rock legends Red Throb, Druids, and 7inch Wave. 7inch Wave - "Break too Fast" / Load "Love Emulator" ,8​,​1 (Ames) Goldblums - "Wear my Blood" / Blum On (Des Moines) Greg Wheeler and the Poly Mall Cops - "...

Night Listeners -  Welcome to Thrash City II! As with the last Thrash City episodes we are strictly in head banger alley.  Lord Green - "Flying" / Discography (Quad Cities) Telekinetic Yeti - "Cult of Yeti" / Primordial (Dubuque) Roze - "Dead Men Get No Tales" / Ragged Edges (Des Moines) Acoustic Guillotine - "Hurry Up and Finish Dying" / 1st 7inch (Iowa City)  Dead Emperors - "The Calm" / The Bea...

Night Listeners- We are now in the 2nd Thursday of ordinary time. Our opening banger, Death Killer Overdrive covering "Life is a Highway", slipped through the cracks. We also got a first time play with Fly Mexican Airlines. Death Kill Overdrive - "Life is a Highway" / Death Kill Overdrive (Iowa City) Swing by Seven - "Threats to Society" / Swing by Seven (Sioux City) Mister Clean - "Testosterone"...

Night Listeners - It is the first Thursday of ordinary time here at Iowa Basement Tapes (a little Catholic humor... I'm not Catholic). We are twerking some eastern Iowa hardcore tonight with Take Control, Tong Po, and Slut River. Did you know there used to be a gay bar in Des Moines called the Male Box? I learned that this week. The Agrestix - "On the Prowl" / Welcome to Hell (Davenport) The Tanks...

Night Listeners - Happy Halloween everyone! Tonight we play all the rockabilly and psychobilly along with everything in between! First time plays from Zed (psychobilly from Bettendorf). Plus some extra spooky tunes from haunted hills of Iowa. The Afterdarks - "I'm No Good" / Rock N Roll is Dead (Quad Cities) X-Ray Mary - "Devil in Boots" / Electroshock Therapy (Ottumwa) Pitch Black Manor - "Transy...

Night Listeners - We have a return to form tonight! First of we have some first time plays with Mr. Meat and the Vegans and Sean Tyler. I dig out some classics from Milk Duct Tape, Red Throb, and Unisex. Milk Duct Tape - "Gojira" (Iowa City) Red Throb - "My Gun" / Bend Over Here Cums (Iowa City) Citrus Boy - "Pink Pig" / Conniption Fits (Council Bluffs) Basketball Divorce Court - "IC" / rebound (I...

Night Listeners - It is criminal to think that it has taken five years to have Ben Smasher on this show. I can say honestly that Iowa Basement Tapes would not exist if it wasn't for him and his original archive of Iowa music, 319dude.bandcamp.com . He was also half of Iowa's black metal act, Satan's Almighty Penis and had several other projects including Cannibal Horse , Clean Mountain , and Harm...

Night Listeners - Tonight we have one of the funnest shows that we have done in a long time. Greg Wheeler and Phil Young the duo that make up the season spooky synth band NIGHT STORIES are with us. We talk their history, lore, and then things get out of hand. We also dig into their Iowa playlist. Night Stories - "Sam's Equinox" (Des Moines) Glass Ox - "Out of Your Mind" / Out of Your Mind (Marshal...

Night Listeners- I present the sludge tonight in honor of broadcasting from roach motel in Waterloo/Evansdale. Our last show for September and we are stomping it into the autumn ashes of hollow earth. Our home station 98.9FM KFMG has nominated me for BEST RADIO VOICE THAT TURNS YOU ON for this year's CITYVIEW BEST OF DES MOINES. VOTE for me for this years CITYVIEW BEST OF DES MOINES. It's box numb...

Night Listeners - I think I have packed the most bands in one show ever. Eighteen bands in one hour! Featuring a track off the new Double Dice tape, new Nebuleth,  new Ill Omen (feat Frontal Assault), and a slew of bands that I just haven't played in awhile. Our home station 98.9FM KFMG has nominated me for BEST RADIO VOICE THAT TURNS YOU ON for this year's CITYVIEW BEST OF DES MOINES. VOTE for me...

Night Listeners - I hope all the local Des Moines folk have recovered from our hardcore weekend we all just had with the In Loving Memory / Black Market Fetus reunion shows! Well I pack it in tonight a little more hardcore and screamo from around the state along with a few weird picks that don't really fit in. Our home station 98.9FM KFMG has nominated me for BEST RADIO VOICE THAT TURNS YOU ON for...

Night Listeners - Tonight's show is one of the best I have had on air in a long time. BRAND NEW track from Keokuk's Finally Some Action AND the Quad Cities spook disco kings, Pitch Black Manor. Don't miss the reunion show this weekend with Black Market Fetus and In Loving Memory! Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com and download...

Night Listeners - I'm broadcasting from Evansville in southern Indiana. New tunes from Jimmie's in the Basement and Animals on LSD. 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 every Thursday at 9P...

Night Listeners - Maybe I'm jumping the gun a little early for spooky season but whatever, this heat is choking me out. We have a first time play from Double Dice with an excerpt from their XBK show earlier this summer. We also jamming Ill Omen's newest record March of Decay . Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com and download an...

Night Listeners - I wanted to start doing a periodic all metal show and even though I think I technically have done them in the past I am finally giving them a name: Thrash City! Tonight we blast Atomic Opera (Metallica worship from 1992 Des Moines), Frontal Assault (Cedar Rapids), Step Child (late 80s Pantera worship from Marshalltown) and the mighty Traffic Death (Des Moines). Follow Kristian Da...

Night Listeners- It's Thursday I bring back some bangers from The Grifters, Exit Drills, Brazil, and the weirdo prog rock USAUSA. It's a loud one. 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 every...

Night Listeners - We finally got some new material up on the Bandcamp archive! Sludgeplow's Thunderhead from 2002 and a super weird compilation from the Quad Cities called Terribles Est Locus Iste from Burned Alive Records. First time plays from Easy Fruit (Des Moines) and Close to Most (Sioux City). Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out iowabasementtapes.band...

Night Listeners - Thrash city tonight! Telekinetic Yeti, Dryad, Stickdog, Sioux City Pete and Billy Crystal Meth! Plus we dig more into the Chemical Buffet archives. 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....

Night Listeners - We are back to our regular formatted rock n roll show. Tonight we have some unreleased tunes from Tires and Finally Some Action courtesy of Mr. Phil Young. Plus we open The Obsolete Andrew Joseph Caffrey of Horrors / CR Dicks fame. 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....

Night Listeners - We are back with special guest Andrew Jones AKA Zap Tura in the KFMG studios here in downtown Des Moines. We talk music, sound collage, and his extremely unique Iowa playlist (I don't any other guest has ever had these artists on their lists before). Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com and download any of the...

Night Listeners- This is our first hip hop guest here at Iowa Basement Tapes and I'm stoked that Dom Russell AKA Chill Mac is with us tonight. He is playing 80/35 this Saturday and has a great origin story to share. 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 an...

Night Listeners-We have an amazing show tonight with special guests: GLASS OX the black metal/doom act from Marshalltown. Brothers Mythias and Bo join us in the KFMG studio at Mainframe downtown Des Moines. Fundraiser Link to Support Luke Rauch: MLIW Shirt:  https://lifelinerecords.bigcartel.com/product/modern-life-is-war-benefit-shirt GoFundMe:  https://www.gofundme.com/f/gt55zq-lukes-journey Iow...

Night Listeners -  This show has been designated "stoner friendly" tonight. We have jams from The Vahnevants, The Contents Are, Com. System, Desalin and Son of the Morning. I guess that makes us stoner friendly? 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 mu...

Night Listeners - We got a loud one. We are halfway through June and all the summer shows are popping up like weeds.  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 every Thursday at 9PM on 98.9FM KF...