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- Yesterday1h 1m
Iowa Basement Tapes #415 11-05-2026
Night Listeners -Welcome to November. I apologize for the lack of a proper Halloween episode. I am going into my second month on a feature working sixteen hour days. It's rough a trade. Anyways next week is our last week of filming. So working towards getting back into the swing of things. Tonight's show represents passing through the thin veil and into the dark season of winter. 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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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
- 2 weeks ago1h 1m
Iowa Basement Tapes #414 10-22-2026
Night Listeners -More spooky season for you grinders out there. We got an exclusive drop from Foxpelt out of Sioux City and we revisit some pagan classics.Night Stories - "Sam's Equinox" (Des Moines)Foxpelt - "Small Life" (Sioux City)Glass Ox - "Fear Riders" / Temptress (Marshalltown)Red Throb - "My Gun" / Bend Over Here Comes (Iowa City)Finally Some Action - "The Beyond" / Circuits of Time EP (Keokuk)Precious - "Roads Line with the Dead and Dying" / Innocence (Iowa City)Tomb Wizard - "Asleep in Twilights Coffin" / Asleep in Twilights Coffin (Waterloo)When Bitter Spring Sleeps - "Lost Admist this Moonlit Venture" / Star-Thrown (Cedar Rapids)Traffic Death - "Hopeless Culture" / Don't Be A Projectile (Des Moines)Greg Wheeler and the Poly Mall Cops - "Reception" / Slimephone Surveillance (Des Moines)Phantom Lightkeeper - "Fire Spirits" / Four Days at the Precipice (Cedar Rapids)The Horrors - "Every Inch of My Love" / The Horrors (Cedar Rapids)Son of the Morning - "The Rule of Three" / Son of the Morning (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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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 #413 10-14-2026
Night Listeners -Tonight we explore the Always Here Compilation that features curated music by Iowa trans artists. We also check out the new Traffic Death split and an artifact find from Pella.The After Darks - "Black Cat" / Rock N Roll is Dead (Quad Cities)CCD-C - "Clean my Bones" / Champagne Jams (Iowa City)Patron Saints - "If the Spirit Moves You" / Patron Saints (Quad Cities)Bloodless Girls - "They Can't Kill Us Till They Kill Us" / Always Here Compilation (Ames)I Will - "Persist" / Persist (Iowa City)Keenan Crow - "Effigy" / Always Here Compilation (Des Moines)Mopium - "Mx. Wrong" / Always Here Compilation (Iowa City)Leah Rae - "Visions" / Always Here Compilation (?)Polyachi - "You're Gonna Die On This Hill" / Always Here Compilation (Cedar Rapids)Ill Omen - "Freedom from Death" / Cannot Be Controleled (Cedar Rapids)Traffic Death - "Early Hours" / Split with Deterioration (Des Moines)Frontal Assault - "Moral Erosion" / Plague of the Mind (Cedar Rapids)Mister Slate - "I Gotta Rock" / Gotta Rock (Pella) 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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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
- 4 weeks ago1h 1m
Iowa Basement Tapes #412 10-08-2026
Night Listeners -Week of two of spooky season. Finally the weather is perfect. I got some psychobilly from the Quad Cities. Some alien surf punk from Mason City. Outer space stoner metal from Dubuque. The Afterdarks - "No Good" / Rock N Roll is Dead (Quad Cities)Chunks - "Chunks" / No Where to Hide (Iowa City)Phantom Lightkeeper - "Abominable" / Four Days at the Precipice (Cedar Rapids)Ill Omen - "The Cynic... The Ripper" / Cannot Be Controlled (Cedar Rapids)Why Bother? - "You're So Easy" / Beyond Step One (Mason City)Catholic Werewolves - "Where do you think we are" / You're Gonna Miss Everything Cool and Die Angry (Quad Cities)Sundance - "Lobo" / God Entered My Body Like a Body the Same Size (Des Moines)The Hollowmen - "Treeline" / Live at Riff's 1985 (Des Moines)Plague Relic - "Priest of the Worm" / Plague Relic (Jefferson)Horny Genius - "Mother Horta" / Proper Sound Rewound (Iowa City)Wolves of War - An Ember Among Ashes" (Des Moines)TV Cop - "Jean Jacket" / The State Riff of Iowa (Ottumwa)Traffic Death - "Children of the Carton" / Backroads and Strange Encouters (Des Moines)Space Burial - "Radiation Savior" / 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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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
- Oct 2, 202659 min
Iowa Basement Tapes #411 10-01-2026 Hello Spooky Season
Night Listeners - The rain kinda sucks by spooky season is here! We are lifting out into October with style. I picked over a dozen eerie and weird tracks from Iowa's cauldron of spirits.Pitch Black Manor - "The Thing in the Woods" / The Halloween Scene (Quad Cities)Milk Duct Tape - "Gojira" (Iowa City)Greg Wheeler and the Poly Mall Cops - "You Make Me Spin" / Slimephone Surveilance (Des Moines)Phantom Lightkeeper - "Hidden Mother" / Four Days at the Precipice (Cedar Rapids)Sherman Hillside Stranglers - "Devil was a Dragracer" / Hellfire Fueled (Des Moines)Nu World Mutants - "Sweet By & By" / The World is our Bowling Ball (Burlington)Why Bother - "You're so Easy" / Beyond Step One (Mason City)Holy Vestige - "Long Walk" / Plead (Marshalltown)Fate - "You Belong to the Night" / Another Day Alone with my Thoughts (Cedar Falls)Bat Problem - "Dance" / Can't Pass By (Des Moines)Captain Three Leg - "After Death" / After Death (Ottumwa)When Bitter Spring Sleeps - "Haunted by the Death of Sanity" (Cedar Rapids)White Hott - "Bring Me the Night" / Angels in Leather (Des Moines)Wizard Bloody Wizard - "I Nosferatu" / Walpurgis (Muscatine) Tomb Wizard - "Asleep in Twilights Coffin" / Asleep in Twilights Coffin (Waterloo) 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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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
- Sep 18, 20261h 0m
Iowa Basement Tapes #410 09-17-2026
Night Listeners -You folks have been so sick to send me all sorts of new material. I even opened up the flood gates to play more bands from border towns.Ten Grand - "Sometimes You Say the Wrong Thing... When You're Stupid (Scary Movie 3)" / Split with Mike Lust (Iowa City)In Loving Memory - "Great Day at Dawn" / A Gentler Sun (Des Moines)Followed by Ghosts - "Manifest Destiny" / The Entire City was Silent (Iowa City)River City Rejects - "1891" / River City Rejects EP (Omaha)Kayak Jones - "Stigmata" / Drugs (Dubuque)God's Hand - "Remodeled" / Remodeled (Iowa City)Why Bother - "A.I. Lobotomy" / Beyond Step One (Mason City) Holy Vestige - "Plead" / Plead (Marshalltown)Ten Point Turn - "The Feeling" (Galena)Zero333 - "rock sounds" (Des Moines)He_Shan_Tshe- "Somebody-Somewhere" / He_Shan_Tshe (Des Moines)Melting Human Trash - "The Wild" / Melting Human Trash (Dubuque)Peter Dresses - "I Am True" (Iowa City)Phat Zac - "Women I can't Stand" (Ames)CHUNKS - "Tough Guy" / Nowhere To Hide (Iowa City)Liquified Decomposition - "Fed to the Furnace" / Bloated in the Pond (Dubuque)Patient Wolf - "Thinking about you" / Patient Wolf (Dubuque)The Hollowmen - "Swallow You Whole" / Pink Quartz Sun Blasting (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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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
- Sep 4, 202659 min
Iowa Basement Tapes #409 09-02-2026
Night Listeners-We have another evening of new material. Thank you to everyone that responded to my post on the IBT Instagram account. Everything tonight is either a new band or a new track minus our prodigal sons, Captain Three Leg. Also first time play from the ORIGINAL dungeon synth master Larry "the Wizard" Sievers.Sundance - "Bone" / God Entered My Body Like a Body the Same Size (Des Moines)CHUNKS - "Nowhere to Hide" / Nowhere to Hide (Iowa City)Pseudo Joy -"rippled" / デモテープ (cont.) (Iowa City)The Carousel - "Paths" / The Carousel (Des Moines)The Fundido Bros. - "Monolithic Hi-Fi" / Vol 3 (Cedar Rapids)Larry "the Wizard" Sievers - "In The King's Service" / Wizard of Avalon (Iowa City)postPOST - "the ninety two to two eighty" / Disk 1 of 1 (Cedar Falls)Sterling Bidler - "Embers" (Des Moines)Wizard Bloody Wizard - "I Nosferatu" / Walpurgis (Muscatine)Captain Three Leg - "Crippled Checkbook" / Split with Cop Bar (Ottumwa)Captain Three Leg - "The Stakeout" / The split with Bullshit Market (Ottumwa)Captain Three Leg - "Cemetery Planet" / The Birth of the Creatures to Conquer (Ottumwa)HE_SHAN_TSHE - "Bathed in Bliss" / HE_SHAN_TSHE (Des Moines)Fate - "You Were Never Real" (Cedar Falls) 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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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
- Aug 28, 20261h 0m
Iowa Basement Tapes #408 08-27-2026
Night Listeners - Sometimes a lot of time goes by and tons of bands release new albums, new projects start or I just completely miss out on a band who was short lived. Tonight's show is packed full of either new material or stuff I just completely missed out. Why Bother - "Come Undone" / Beyond Step One (Mason City) TV Cop - "Jean Jacket" / The State Riff of Iowa (Ottumwa) Slingshot - "Artichoke" / Artichoke - Jaine (Dubuque) Remiss - "I Can't See Color Anymore" / So It Goes (Oskaloosa) Negative 20° - "I Wish I Was a Riot Grrrl" / In the Pocket Live EP (Waterloo) Acended Master - "Wait and See" / Demo 26 (Iowa City) Husoul - "Calamity" / Project Dilemma (Des Moines) ARU - "Repurposed Dream Sequences" / Repurposed Dream Sequences (Des Moines) The Host Country - "The Rise" / Liminal Ways (Des Moines) Finally Some Action - "Secret Language" / Finally Some Action (Keokuk) Skinned Alive - "Magat Stomp" / Ice Carver (Des Moiens) Sin Miedo - "Sin Miedo" / Demo (Des Moines) Toxic Hell - "Carpet Bombed" / Toxic Hell (Cedar Rapids) Blaster - "I've Heard it Before" / Blaster (Quad Cities) Atombender - "US Hwy 30" / Wait of the World (Ames) 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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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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