Iowa Basement Tapes

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...

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...