Episodes

  • Iowa Basement Tapes #320 09-19-2024
    Sep 20 2024
    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. BROADCAST SCHEDULE Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines Fridays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City Fridays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWIC - Decorah If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Iowa Basement Tapes #319 09-12-2024 KDAY's Birthday Mix Tape
    Sep 13 2024
    Night listeners-I am recording this episode on my actual birthday of 9-11. I turn 39 today which seems wild (wait until next year KDAY). So everything tonight is basically a mixtape I would make for someone whose only window into Iowa music was either Slipknot, William Elliot Whitmore or The Envy Corps. I don't listen to any of those bands.The Horrors - "Every Inch of my Love" / The Horrors (Cedar Rapids)House of Large Sizes - "What if there is a Fire" / One Big Cake (Cedar Falls)Moveable Feast - "End of the World" / Another Iowa Compilation (Des Moines)The Least Worst - "Apology Tour" / First Worst (Ottumwa)Die Mutts - "Old Videos" / Die Mutts! (Des Moines)The Hollowmen - "Never Ending Ceiling" / Another Iowa Compilation (Des Moines)Ill Omen feat. Frontal Assault - "Born to Die" / Born to Dies (Cedar Rapids)Deerslayer - "Music Table 2" / Music Table (Cedar Rapids)Finally Some Action - "Circuits of Time" / Circuits of Time (Keokuk)Captain Three Leg - "Esteban" / split with Short Order (Ottumwa)Captain Three Leg - "Hardcore Instruction" / split with Short Order (Ottumwa)Captain Three Leg - "Bedroom Brown" / split with Short Order (Ottumwa)Captain Three Leg - "Bang & Whimper" / split with Short Order (Ottumwa)Captain Three Leg - "Kid Prison" / split with Short Order (Ottumwa)Captain Three Leg - "Record Detectives" / split with Short Order (Ottumwa)Druids - "The Beginning of Fire" / Pray for Water (Des Moines)Traffic Death - "Hopeless Culture" / Don't Be a Projectile (Des Moines)Pozar - "The Storm" / Eclipse of Truth (Cedar Rapids)Moon Summoner - "Part 2" / Four Corners (Des Moines)Brazil - "Eyelights" / Love Lost her Job Today (Cedar Rapids) 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. BROADCAST SCHEDULEThursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des MoinesFridays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux CityFridays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - OkobojiSaturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWIC - DecorahIf you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e
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    59 mins
  • Iowa Basement Tapes #318 09-05-2024
    Sep 6 2024

    Night Listeners-

    Midwest chunk fest tonight while I am in DC. Classics from The Wheelers, Tonh Po and Keepers of the Carpet. Some emo depression from Bloomer. Plus the new release from Pozar.

    1. The Wheelers - "op_CNTRL" / op_CNTRL (Cedar Rapids)
    2. Glass Ox - "Rushes of Evil " / A Celebration of Death (Marshalltown)
    3. Tong Po - "Murder of Crows" / The Demolition (Bettendorf)
    4. The Least Worst - "The Women of Goodwill" / First Worst (Ottumwa)
    5. Duo Beats - "Clover" / Clover (Des Moines)
    6. Terrific Mascots - "Miss Car Cruise U.S.A." / Courtesy Ribbon (Iowa City)
    7. Grimly Wallace - "Rippy Longstocking" / Demos (Des Moines)
    8. Keepers of the Carpet - "I Love You" / 15 Year Deluxe Version (Buffalo Center)
    9. Psyop - "Thread" / Dare to Live (Iowa City)
    10. Snowi Owel - "Ardently Afraid" / Snow Owel 2 (Des Moines)
    11. Bloomer - "Butterfly World" / Butterfly World (Iowa City)
    12. Tommy Santee Klaws - "Seconds" / A Table Before Me (Iowa City)
    13. Moon Summoner - "Indulging Night" / Phases (Des Moines)
    14. Marauders - "Warning" (?)
    15. Pozar - "Nothing is Real Into You Feel" / Eclipse of Truth (Cedar Rapids)

    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.

    BROADCAST SCHEDULE
    Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines
    Fridays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
    Fridays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji
    Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWIC - Decorah

    If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Iowa Basement Tapes #317 08-29-2024
    Aug 30 2024

    Night Listeners -

    Last show for the dog days of summer so we are frying eggs on the cement tonight. Debut play from The Least Worst out of Ottumwa, hardcore classics from Rue Morgue and Breakdance PLUS a shoegaze dream from Blist Her.

    1. The Least Worst - "Machetes Ready" / First Worst (Ottumwa)
    2. The Law - "Hole in My Heart" / King Size Cigarette (Des Moines)
    3. Skamikazies - "8000 Watts" / Behold (Quad Cities)
    4. The Brown Note - "Set Sail" / Better Than Music (Cedar Rapids)
    5. The Ballet - "A Song to Bring Ya Home" / We Were Wild Buffalo (Quad Cities)
    6. The Obsolete Andrew Joseph Caffrey - "My Blue Eyed Baby (is a Black Eyed Baby Now" / The Obsolete Andrew Joseph Caffrey (Cedar Rapids)
    7. Centaur Noir - "Life is a Mystery" / Memoirs II (Quad Cities)
    8. Blist Her - "TV Guide to Life" (Burlington)
    9. Voorhees - "Dreams" (Keokuk)
    10. Verb the Noun - "Bepis" / Verb the Noun (Sioux City)
    11. Wax Cannon - "Thanks for Registering Your Vehicle" / Life-sized Animals Walking Around (Iowa City)
    12. Breakdance - "Bruce Bruce" / Mistaken Grave (Des Moines)
    13. Rue Morgue - "Elect Archie Brooks" / Demo (Des Moines)
    14. Safety Second - "Persuasion" / Four Elements (Marshalltown)
    15. Twin Wizard - "Apothecary" / Glacial Gods (Iowa City)

    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.

    BROADCAST SCHEDULE
    Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines
    Fridays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
    Fridays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji
    Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWIC - Decorah

    If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Iowa Basement Tapes #316 08-21-2024
    Aug 23 2024
    Night Listeners-PACKED PACKED PACKED show tonight. First time plays from Soup Riot!, The Blendours, and Chrash. We are also slowing entering spooky season so I sneak in a track from X-Ray Mary.Soup Riot! - "Slippery Slope" / Kick Me! (Iowa City)Slut River - "Off Whie" / Off White (Iowa City)The Blendours - "Cut My Hair" / Department of Meteors (Des Moines)X-Ray Mary - "Skull of Elvis" / Manzilla (Ottumwa)Xerox - "Sunken In" / Xerox EP (Iowa City)Sorry Excuse - "I love you" (Mason City)Unisex - "Ceiling Fan Massacre" / Hold Your Breath and then Some (Ottumwa)Underlords of the Overworld - " Laundromat of Madness" / Underlords of the Overworld (Des Moines)Centaur Noir - "Scenery" / Good Loving Humans (Quad Cities)Melty Smiler feat. Extravision - "Road Unravels" (Des Moines)Blist Her - "Lines (Vaporgaze .01)" / Lines The Vapor Mixes (Burlington)E H I - "Haze" / A Fear of Staircases (Des Moines)Strong Like Bear - "Infested" / In the Future Only the Rich will Live Forever (Ames)Lemming - "Hey Spacey" / AIMS Sampler (Ames)Supersonic Piss - "Choke Yourself Awake" / Tibs Picks - Iowa City Weirdo Scene Comp (Iowa City)Chrash - "Billionaire Breeding Ground" / 2017 The Music (Quad Cities)Megapunch - "Big Woods" / Skyward (Dubuque)Michael Duede - "Core Killer" / Restrict (Des Moines) 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. BROADCAST SCHEDULEThursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des MoinesFridays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux CityFridays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - OkobojiSaturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWIC - DecorahIf you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Iowa Basement Tapes #315 08-15-2024
    Aug 16 2024

    Night Listeners -

    The summer nearly over. I have been all over this land and tonight I bring you some wild finds. First time plays from Midnight Express Show Band, Snowi Owel, and Keepers of the Carpet.

    1. Why Bother - "Running from the Sun" / Serenading Unwanted Ballads (Mason City)
    2. Melting Human Trash - "Death Always Wins" / Weedian (Dubuqe)
    3. GreVlar - "Gutspawn (revisited)" / Crystal Cave (Winterset)
    4. Keepers of the Carpet - "Rooftop Live @ Octagon" / 15 year Deluxe Version (Buffalo Center)
    5. Midnight Express Show Band - "Dangerzone" (Davenport)
    6. Snowi Owel - "To Stay at Home is Best" / Snowi Owel 2 (Des Moines)
    7. Bob Bucko Jr - "A loving Cup" / I Did What I Could With What I Had (Dubuque)
    8. Tomb Wizard - "Corpses from Miserable Realms" / Asleep in Twilight's Coffin (Waterloo)
    9. Space Burial - "Kuru" / Weedian (Dubuque)
    10. Pozar - "Spiritual Heaven" / Eclipse of Truth (Cedar Rapids)

    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.

    BROADCAST SCHEDULE
    Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines
    Fridays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
    Fridays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji
    Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWIC - Decorah

    If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Iowa Basement Tapes 314 08-08-2024
    Aug 9 2024

    Night Listeners-

    We got a funky show tonight with a lot of material that is not normally in circulation on this show. Lot of tunes from the 5th Iowa Compilation release. I pull some stuff the 1960s and I introduce a brand new band, Mad Delirous from Mason City.

    1. The Wheelers - "Ride By Fire" / The Wheelers (Cedar Rapids)
    2. Mad Delirious - "Land of Glass" / (Mason City)
    3. Mudwump - "Get Out" / Iowa Compilation Volume 5: A Few Works After Drink (Cedar Falls)
    4. Slimtones - "How It Is" / Iowa Compilation Volume 5: A Few Works After Drink (Iowa City)
    5. Mold - "Margin" / Iowa Compilation Volume 5: A Few Works After Drink (Iowa City)
    6. Ben Poppen - "Were You There" / Pastoral (Des Moines)
    7. Nightrazor - "Godslammer" Tonebox Remix (Des Moines)
    8. The Autumn Project - "One" / La Luna de Negra (Des Moines)
    9. Larry Jensen - "I'm Moving On" (Carlisle)
    10. Hot Carl - "Human Pharmacy" / It Hits the Sauce (Dubuque)
    11. Gunk Lung - "Joaquin Phoenix" / Support System (Iowa City)
    12. Iowa Beef Experience - "Nitro Burnin' Funny Cow" / Jublix... (Iowa City)
    13. Incarnated - "Enter Horror" / Spiritual Embodiment (Des Moines)
    14. The Contents Are - "Head Collect" / Four Each Other (Davenport)

    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.

    BROADCAST SCHEDULE
    Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines
    Fridays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
    Fridays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji
    Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWIC - Decorah

    If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e

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    1 hr
  • Iowa Basement Tapes #313 08-01-2024
    Aug 2 2024

    Night Listeners -

    I can't believe its August! I have one more show here in LA and I will be back in the heartland with all of you next week. Tonight features new music from Gunk Lung and Landethics. Plus I play some lo-fi death inspired grindcore from Gore God. Also I continue to play boring dungeon synth because now I'm hooked.

    1. Gunk Lung - "Brainstew" (Iowa City)
    2. Karen Meat - "Tell Me Who I Am" / Tell Me Who I Am (Des Moines)
    3. Mainstreet Blake - "85 Bears" / Sorta VHS (Waterloo)
    4. Steve Reverb and the Sound Tones - "Sad Soul" / Steve Reverb and the Sound Tones (Cedar Rapids)
    5. The Glimmer Blinkken - "Leavings" / Bernard Ruix Wedding Album (Dubuque)
    6. Electric Assault - "Witches Dance" / Shocked Into Coherence (Des Moines)
    7. Chemical Buffet - "Choking on Pastel" / Vox, Covs, Strings (Des Moines)
    8. Landethics - "Ramenon6thStreet" / Haunted EP (Iowa City)
    9. Mr. Softheart - "Purgatory - A Dream Sequence" / Songs for Subdued Space (Des Moines/Cedar Falls)
    10. Tyrant of the Gorgon - "Night Sky" / Through Black Mists (Waterloo)
    11. Night Razor - "Nitropolis" (Des Moines)
    12. Hot Jam - "Storm Monday" / Singles (Marshalltown)
    13. Gore God - "Dwelling in Slime" / Consumed by Rotting Slime (Des Moines)
    14. Hairless Monk - "Plato the Poison Dart Frog Vs The Seven Sand Snakes" / Sky Towers Fall (Cedar Rapids)

    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.

    BROADCAST SCHEDULE
    Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines
    Fridays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
    Fridays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji
    Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWIC - Decorah

    If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e

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    1 hr and 1 min