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- 4 days ago1h 0m
Iowa Basement Tapes #396 05-14-2026
Night Listeners - Packed show with lots of new bands (or at least new to me). A big shout out to the Nu World Mutants for sending me a copy of their new record. It absolutely rules and we drop one of the songs tonight. The Lime Wires -"Mirror Facing Mirrors" (Mason City) Nu World Mutants - "(No More Planes to) Karachi" / The World is Our Bowling Ball (Burlington) Clifford Hoyt - "The Chandelier Falls...Again" / Split A.M. (Dubuque) Pink Flag - "Signal Fire" / In Chains EP (Des Moines) Catholic Werewolves - "Cowrkr" / You're Gonna Miss Everything and Die Angry (Davenport) Ophidian Memory - "Hunger of Your Deceased Deity" (Des Moines) Chemical Buffet - "Praise be to Zardoz" / Far-Out Scraps (Des Moines) Mim Jiller - "Bleu Cheese" / Sove Longs EP (Iowa City) Chrash - "Good Old Fashion News" / 2017 The Music (Quad Cities) Safety Second -"Don't Know" / Sick Tired (Marshalltown) happy thoughts - "my arms are a sawdust factory" / stab stab revolution (Des Moines) Followed by Ghosts - "Clear Blue Sky" / The Entire City was Silent (?) Space Burial - "User Friendly" / Meeting the Natives (Dubuque) Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: InstagramFollow 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 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - OkobojiIf you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e
- 1 weeks ago1h 1m
Iowa Basement Tapes #395 05-07-2026
Night Listeners - Tonight's show is PACKED with all sorts of new material. Six bands/projects making their show debut. New tune from God's Hand, thisworlsisnotkind and Frontal Assault. Sexy Cash - "Do You Want To Dance?" (Sioux City) Foxpelt - "Foxpelt Conniption" (Sioux City) Bat Problem - "Dance" / Can't Pass By (Des Moines) Lipstick Homicide - "Good Times" / The Stone of Opportunity (Iowa City) God's Hand - "Police Lorry" / Police Lorry 7" (Iowa City) Lotus Light - "Sour Blue" / The Passing of Time (Dubuque) Mike Allen - "Remarkable Unremarkable" / MN (?) Winterwraith - "Magic from an Ancient Time" / Magic from an Ancient Time (Waterloo) Archeress - "VI - (I Wake Up) / ♏︎ (?) thisworldisnotkind - "I Think we are going to have to kill this guy, Steven" / grief (Iowa City) Stars Hollow - "Casper" / Kind of Hoping (Des Moines) Psyop - "Outskirts" / (Iowa City) Why Bother - "Speck's Lament" / You Are Part Of The Experiment (Mason City) Frontal Assault - "Working Man" / Plague of the Mind (Cedar Rapids) Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: InstagramFollow 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 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - OkobojiIf you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e
- 3 weeks ago59 min
Iowa Basement Tapes #394 04-23-2026 Ill Omen and the Return of the Des Moines 4-Track Compilation
Night Listeners- This is a huge night for this show! First a brand new tune from Ill Omen, the first in two years. Second, Chuck Hoffman and Curtis Howard sent me the files for The Des Moines Four-Track Compilation Vol 1 LP. This is huge. I haven't played any song off of this record in over five years. I don't know what happened but Bandcamp would not let me download it anymore. So tonight we are playing almost ALL of it. Ill Omen - "Internal Bleeding" (Cedar Rapids) The Seed Of Something - "Black Friday" / The Des Moines Four-Track Compilation (Des Moines) Mantis Pincers - "Black Capes On Blondes" / The Des Moines Four-Track Compilation (Des Moines) John The Bastard - "No Sympathy" / The Des Moines Four-Track Compilation (Des Moines) The French Dials - "Bo(a)rders" / The Des Moines Four-Track Compilation (Des Moines) Dresden Style - "Canna What?" / The Des Moines Four-Track Compilation (Des Moines) Wolves In The Attic - "Last Call" / The Des Moines Four-Track Compilation (Des Moines) Love Songs For Lonely Monsters - "Replacement" / The Des Moines Four-Track Compilation (Des Moines) Druids - "Spirit Compass" / The Des Moines Four-Track Compilation (Des Moines) Fetal Pig - "Good Job, Little Man" / The Des Moines Four-Track Compilation (Des Moines) Skin Of Earth - "Genghis Kong" / The Des Moines Four-Track Compilation (Des Moines) Eric Kennedy - "Testimonial" / The Des Moines Four-Track Compilation (Des Moines) Annalibera - "Black Cat, White Cat" / The Des Moines Four-Track Compilation (Des Moines) Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: InstagramFollow 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 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - OkobojiIf you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e
- Apr 17, 20261h 0m
Iowa Basement Tapes #393 04-16-2026
Night Listeners - We are premiering some new tunes tonight including songs from Bat Problem, God's Hand and Elegy. I want to also take a moment and wish a happy ten year anniversary to Frontal Assault who will be celebrating Friday night at CSPS in Cedar Rapids. Bat Problem - "Zero" / Can't Pass By (Des Moines) God's Hand - "Remodelled" (Iowa City) Fidgit Noise - "My Mommas Movin" / Fidgit Noise (Cedar Rapids) Black Market Fetus - "Midwest Meltdown" / Discography (Des Moines) Captain Three Leg - "Colostomy Stew" / The Birth of the Creatures to Conquer (Ottumwa) Elegy - "Mercy Bare Witness" / Elegy of an Unsung Voice (?) jayvee - "Out Love" / Say Less (Des Moines) Pareidola - "Marbled Outland" / 3 3D (Des Moines) Annalibera - "Vermillion" / Never Mind I Love You (Des Moines) Deivore - "Grievous Anvils" / Grievous Anvils (Iowa City) Sharing Mass Graves - "Pledge of Allegiance" / Four Songs (Iowa City) In Loving Memory - "One Fate Fraught Night Back in '91" / Split with Black Market Fetus (Des Moines) Distant Trains - "Lucky Sonofabitch" / Split with Captain Three Leg (Des Moines) Ten Grand - "The Payload Theme Song" / The Comprehensive List Of Everyone Who Has Ever Done Anything Wrong To Us (Iowa City) Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: InstagramFollow 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 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - OkobojiIf you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e
- Apr 10, 20261h 0m
Iowa Basement Tapes #392 04-09-2026
Night Listeners - We got a bunch of a new material tonight from Anchoress, Gunk Lung, Early Girl, TV Cop and Blist Her. Plus first time plays from Jayvee and Conocybefilaris. Anchoress - "Cnidaria" (Ames) Stickdog - "Bondage" / Human (Iowa City) thisworldisnotkind - "Object-Oriented Polyamory" / death (Iowa City) Bigby Woods - "Chokehold" / Here Goes Nothing (Des Moines) Early Girl - "Three Months" / Winter - Spring Sampler 2026 (Iowa City) Jayvee - "Cozy" / Never Thought (Des Moines) Plague Relic - "Hide Little Ones" / Perversions of Nature (Jefferson) Conocybefilaris - "I" / Conocybefilaris (Waterloo) Blist Her - "Desire" / Winter - Spring Sampler 2026 (Burlington) Gunk Lung - "Comfortofyourroom" / Winter - Spring Sampler 2026 (Iowa City) TV Cop - "Nefarious" / Winter - Spring Sampler 2026 (Ottumwa) Hot Jam - "Stormy Monday" / Early Singles (?) The High Bidders - "Goodbye Fairlain" (Des Moines) Casey Joe Collins - "Worth Water" / The Life and Times of Casey Joe Collins (Des Moines) Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: InstagramFollow 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 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - OkobojiIf you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e
- Apr 3, 20261h 1m
Iowa Basement Tapes #391 04-02-2026
Night Listeners - Tonight's show is packed to the brim. I dig out some very old tapes including A Child's Trust in God, Political Vomit and an early 2000s shoegaze gem called Followed by Ghosts. A Child's Trust in God -"Saturday Night" / Star Spangled Banana (Des Moines) Goalie Fight - "Koskinen" (Marshaltown) Centaur Noir -"Dancehall" (Quad Cities) Full Fathom Five - "The Man with a Concrete Face" / Four Song EP (Iowa City) The Bent Scepters - "The Eagle has Landau" / Land of Dirt Feed Lot Comp (Iowa City) Political Vomit - "Daily Rut" / Music For No Man's Land (Perry) Followed by Ghosts - "A Mirthful Experience" / The Entire City Was Silent (?) Grave of Silent Dreams - "Funeral of the Being" / Funeral of the Being (Waterloo) Deivore - "Grievous Anvils" / Griveous Anvils (Iowa City) Deerslayer - "Music Table 06" / Music Table (Cedar Rapids) White Hott - "Bring Me the Night" / Angel in Leather (Des Moines) The Duma - "Daddy Swing" / Land of Dirt Feed Lot Comp (Iowa City) The Gargoyles - "Untitled" / Land of Dirt Feed Lot Comp (Iowa City) Red Coat Charmers - "One" / Land of Dirt Feed Lot Comp (Iowa City) Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: InstagramFollow 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 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - OkobojiIf you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e
- Mar 20, 202659 min
Iowa Basement Tapes #390 03-19-2026
Night Listeners - I am back from SxSW. A big thank you to Bensmasher for hosting last week. I'm here with some punk goodies plus a brand new band from Mac Stanfield called The High Bidders. The Horrors - "Back in the Cut" / The Horrors (Cedar Rapids) The Sno-Mans - "Cheese Cake USA" / This is So Cool (Waterloo) State Parks - "Run Home" (Ames) The Siouxer Rats - "Out of Sight" / Rat-tle and Shake with the Siouxer Rats (Sioux City) Captain Three Leg - "Bloody Death" / Incident at Ape Canyon (Ottumwa) The High Bidders - "My Dead Friend Barbara's Art" (Des Moines) Contakta - "Moonglow" / Bodyheat (Des Moines) Michael Duede - "100 Pineapple" / Psychicshock (Des Moines) Vitalith - "Sooner than Expected, Night Falls" / A Short Walk Home (Waterloo) Chemical Buffet - "Enter the Vortex" / Chemical Buffet's Version (Des Moines) Moon Summoner - "4 Corners Part 3" / 4 Corners (Des Moines) Running Man - "Numbskulls" / Running Man EP (Quad Cities) Skamp - "Empurpling Irk" / In Muted Panic (Dubuque) Bellyard - "Storm" / Bellyard (Des Moines) Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: InstagramFollow 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 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - OkobojiIf you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e
- Mar 13, 202659 min
Iowa Basement Tapes #389 03-12-2026 GUEST HOST: Ben Smasher
Night Listeners - I am off to SXSW so Ben Smasher is taking the wheel. He literally pulled together a playlist that I would never dream of. Give him a follow on his respected IG Accounts: @bensmasher and @brainsmasher You a should also checkout his Youtube Channel: Brainsmasher666 These Days - "Only What You Need" (Iowa City) Al's Untouchables - "Stick Around" (Cedar Rapids) Brillo & The Firebirds - "Someplace to Hide" (Keokuk) Shy Strangers - "Skeletal Emotions" (Iowa City) Sender Receiver - "The Human Torch Was Denied a Bank Loan" (Knoxville) Moss Gatherer - "Dustin Hoffman" (Iowa City) Vulcan - "No Name" (Spencer) Penny Peach - "I Don't Wanna" (Iowa City) The Swingin' Teens - "White Trash" (Iowa City) West Minist'r - "Bright Lights Windy City" (Fort Dodge) Thisworldisnotkind - "Traitors" (Iowa City) The Dogs - "Horror House Blues" (Decorah) Wally Shoop & The Zombies - "Okoboji" (Spirit Lake) Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: InstagramFollow 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 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - OkobojiIf you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e
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One hour radio program of Iowa's history in the DIY music scene hosted by Kristian Day. The show can also be heard on:Thursdays 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 - DecorahPodcast archives go live Thursdays at 10PM CST. #trustkristianday #madeiniowa
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