
Iowa Basement Tapes
Kristian Day · Kristian Day Media, LLC
Show overview
Iowa Basement Tapes has been publishing since 2018, and across the 8 years since has built a catalogue of 389 episodes, alongside 3 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 380 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 58 min and 1h 1m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Music show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 6 days ago, with 16 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Kristian Day Media, LLC.
From the publisher
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 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 Podcast archives go live Thursdays at 10PM CST. #trustkristianday #madeiniowa
Latest Episodes
View all 389 episodesIowa Basement Tapes #395 05-07-2026
Iowa Basement Tapes #394 04-23-2026 Ill Omen and the Return of the Des Moines 4-Track Compilation
Iowa Basement Tapes #393 04-16-2026
Iowa Basement Tapes #392 04-09-2026
Ep 391Iowa 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 [email protected]. 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
Ep 390Iowa 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 [email protected]. 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
Ep 389Iowa 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 [email protected]. 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
Ep 388Iowa Basement Tapes #388 03-05-2026
Night Listeners - We got a banger of a show tonight with some unearthed recordings from Fly Mexican Airlines and Mannequin Molesters. Plus a bunch weird electronic stuff that I know you crust dudes like. 7-Inch Wave - "Modern Plan" / Load Love Emulator (Ames) Otros Outros - "Free Punch" / Otros Outros (Iowa City) Dirty Sweats - "I Count the Tears" / If It Breaks I'm Fucked (Dubuque) Skabortionsists - "Skabortionists Theme" / Skabortionists (Waverly) Fly Mexican Airlines - "Your Mom Has a Nut Sack" / FMA (Davenport) The Vahnevants - "Say It" / Stoned Together (Des Moines) Moscow Puzzles - "Unknown Fixed Object" / Vast Space of the Interior (Iowa City) Pareidolia - "Red Auditorium" / Part 3 - 3D (Des Moines) Wet Hair - "The Garden Room" / In Vogue Spirit (Iowa City) Mannequin Molesters - "New Direction" / Boom Box Demos (Bettendorf) Mr. Softheart - "Laughing at the Future" / Magdalene in Crisis (Cedar Falls) redbear - "displaces" / pour vous (Marshalltown) Keepers of the Carpet - "Holy Moly!" /15 Year Deluxe Version (Ames) Skin of Earth - "Horsethief" / Skin of Earth (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 [email protected]. 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
Ep 387Iowa Basement Tapes #387 02-16-2026
Night Listeners - After two weeks of talking shows we are back to our regular show. We are packed with tunes from doom kings Lord Green, Melting Human Trash and Zenith. Plus new music from Brandon Loper AKA Tomb Wizard. Lord Green - "Flying" / Higher Than God (Davenport) Why Bother? - "Descension" / Hey, At Least You're Not Me (Mason City) G.L.U.E - "Colored Ghosts" / pray for us in the hour of our death (Sioux City) Anesthesia - "Disgrace" / Pain is Inevitable, Misery is Optional (Council Bluffs) Melting Human Trash - "Death Always Twins" / Weedian - Trip to Nebraska and Iowa (Dubuque) Ben Poppen - "Praise God From Whom All Blessing Flow" / Pastoral (Des Moines) Grave of Silent Dreams - "Only the Dead Know" / Demo (Waterloo) When Bitter Spring Sleeps - "To Lie Forever Dreaming Beneath the Meadowstone" (Cedar Rapids) Fate - "Where am I going?" / Another Day Alone in My Thoughts (Independence) Plastic #9 - "Out On Bail" / Fountain of Youth Vol II (Iowa City) Pull Aparts - "Bonestorms" / Fountain of Youth Vol II (Iowa City) Zenith - "Pitiful" / Weedian - Trip to Nebraska and Iowa (?) 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 [email protected]. 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
Ep 386Iowa Basement Tapes #386 02-19-2026 GUEST: Woodrow Hall
Night Listeners -Woodrow Hall is back with us talking all sorts of news from Frontal Assault, Festering Productions and the Iowa Metal Underground. We also talk about Black Sabbath for nearly six minutes.Frontal Assault - "Under Attack" (Cedar Rapids)Oroborus - "Caranal Apathy" / Oroborus (Des Moines)Starved - "Throes of Suffering" (Cedar Rapids)The Value of Human Life - "Visitors" / Visitors (Cedar Valley)12 Gauge Autopsy - "Carousel of Flesh" (Quad Cities)Diezeleater - "No Couth" / Couthless Aggression (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 [email protected]. 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
Ep 385Iowa Basement Tapes #385 02-12-2026 GUEST: Jason of Deep Fried Embryo
Night Listeners -We have been talking about this interview for almost a year. Jason of Deep Fried Embryo is on the show. We recorded this episode in his town of McGregor, Iowa located deep in the Driftless region. Deep Fried Embryo is about to celebrate twenty years this April. We talk about house shows in Harpers Ferry, Milwaukee Metal Fest and the history of Iowa's oldest noisecore band.Deep Fried Embryo - "Donnie of the Dead" / split with Bloody Rectum (McGregor)Detachment - "Severed from Flesh" / Suspended in Stone (Cedar Rapids)Sadistic Kids - "Tore Up" / Curiosity Killed Those Kids (Cedar Rapids)Black Market Fetus - "Stagnation" / Discography (Des Moines)BOAR - "logitech" / Forever (Dubuque)Mummifier - "Curse of the Pharaoh" / Basic Mummification Procedure (Ottumwa) 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 [email protected]. 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
Ep 384Iowa Basement Tapes #384 02-05-2026
Night Listeners -We got a bunch of Ed Nehring tunes tonight because the Savage Little Suckers are playing this Saturday at Gabes in Iowa City! So we got Red Throb and Savage Little Suckers in the mix. Plus some unheard (on this show) VidaBlue and Brazil tunes. We also got an old direct-to-tape William Elliot Whitmore demo. 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 [email protected]. 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
Ep 383Iowa Basement Tapes #383 01-29-2026
Night Listeners -We go a little hard tonight breaking into Satan's Almighty Penis and raging to a Sex Funeral. Genital Hercules - "Theme from Cheers" / Live from Gabes 5-22-2005 (Cedar Rapids)BBP - "Decompose Me" / BBP (Iowa City)Satan's Almighty Penis - "Sacrifyx" / Thy Foulness Cum (Cedar Rapids)Goldblums - "No Fun" / Heels (Des Moines)Citrus Boy - "Skunk n Chicks" / ...Not Nirvana (Ottumwa)Ill Omen - "Tread" / March of Decay (Cedar Rapids)Nightrazor - "Jackhammer (Jesus Gonna Come)" (Des Moines)I Like You Go Home - "Black Forest Runway" / This is for Me to Know and You to Never Find Out (Dubuque)Sex Funeral - "Away" / Eradicator (Dubuque)Dredge - "Paths of Great Resistance" / Ashbreathers (Dubuque)Stick Dog - 'Betrayal" / Human (Iowa City)The Agrestix - "Psychotic and Insane" / On The Street (Davenport)Twin Wizad - "Ghostwriter" / Glacial Gods (Burlington) 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 [email protected]. 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
Ep 382Iowa Basement Tapes #382 01-22-2026
Night Listeners -We are back with new material from Lipstick Homicide, Hott and a long lost ska band called Evil Geniuses. We are also trying out some video segments on Instagram so gives us a follow at @iowabasementtapes. Captain Three Leg - "How Much Is That Meat?" / Split with Vanishing Cities (Ottumwa)Captain Three Leg - "Disturbing the Peace" / Split with Vanishing Cities (Ottumwa)Hott - "Never Wonder" / Guaranteed to Destroy (Iowa City)Fork Knife Spoon - "All Empires Fall" / All Empires Fall (Quad Cities)Meth and Goats - "Dope Tantrum" / Mini CDr Demo (Quad Cities)Mr. Blanding's Dreamhouse / A Day In the Air #13 (Iowa City)Lipstick Homicide - "What I am Searching For" / Out Utero (Iowa City)Musician - "Cuckkoo Kachoo" / Split with Into the Cove (Waterloo)Harm - "Steam Skin Vitriol" / Obduro Singultus (Cedar Rapids)The Organ - "Quality Time With Jesus" / A Day In the Air #13 (Quad Cities)Evil Geniuses - " Small Town Cops" / Let Us Never Speak of This Again (Des Moines)Conniption Fit - "Movin On" / A Day In the Air #13 (Ames)Roze -"Dead Men Get No Tales" / Shine A Light (Des Moines)Telekinetic Yeti - "Ancient Nug" / Primordial (Dubuque)When Bitter Spring Sleeps - "The Sky Has Not Always Been This Way" / Coven of Wolves (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 [email protected]. 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
Ep 381Iowa Basement Tapes #381 01-15-2026
Night Listeners -We are back! Sorry about last week I was down in Texas on a documentary shoot with my hands completely tied up. But I brought a killer show for you all tonight. Lots of first time plays and new music from Phantom Lightkeeper and When Bitter Spring Sleeps.Schmoz - "Paul Bearer" / Tales EP (Sioux City)happy thoughts - "my arms are a sawdust factory" / stab stab revolution (Des Moines)River City Rejects - "1891" / River City Rejects (Omaha)Phantom Lightkeeper - "Hidden Mother" (Cedar Rapids)In Loving Memory - "Great Day That Dawns" / A Gentler Sun (Des Moines)Drednex - "Army, Inc" / Co-Op (Cedar Falls)Miasma - "I Need Some Pain Killers Pronto!" / Calligraphy in Blood (Cedar Rapids)Vitalith - "Sooner than Expected, Night Falls" / A Short Walk Home (Waterloo)When Bitter Spring Sleeps - "Haunted by the Death of Sanity" (Cedar Rapids)North to Alaska - "A Move to Vancouver" / Everything Right Now (Cedar Rapids)Zuul - "No Friend of Mine" / Zuul (Iowa City)Skin of Earth - "Auto Icon" / notebook (Des Moines)Running Man - "In the Shadows" / Running Man (Quad Cities)Anchoress - "rain on skin" / someone needs to light the way (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 [email protected]. 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
Ep 380Iowa Basement Tapes #380 01-01-2026 HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Night Listeners -Happy New Year from Iowa Basement Tapes! As you know we started an Instagram account just a week ago and we already have nearly 400 followers. THANK YOU! Tonight's show is packed with some early Des Moines punk rock and some new music from the shoegaze act Purplish. 2026 is going to be a great year.The Law - "Beer Please Not Politics" / Music For No Man's Land (Des Moines)The Slats - "Turbo" / Car (Cedar Rapids)The Sly Strangers - "Heat Ray" / Iowa Compilation Volume 1 (Iowa City)thisworldisnotkind - "Joy" / Death (Iowa City)toolongdidntread - "So.Much.Foam" / Molt (Sioux City)Sludgeplow - "Smile" / Survival is Killing, Another Useless Compilation (Cedar Rapids)Burnout - "Superfuzz" / Thundertits (Iowa City)Dylan Shiv and the Shanks - "Bleed" / Combat Punx (Independence)Finally Some Action - "Thanks for the Ride" / Mode 7 (Keokuk)Captain Three Leg - "Dear Death" / Dear Death (Ottumwa)Purplish - "Dreaming" / Dreaming (Spencer)Total Passover - "American Provincial" / Live at People's (Ames)Casey Joe Collins - "Hungry Hollow" / The Life and Times of Casey Joe Collins (Des Moines)Kerosene Circuit - "Put the Circuit" / Kerosene Circuit (Dubuque)Moveable Feast -"End of the World" / Iowa Compilation Volume 1 (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 [email protected]. 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
Ep 379Iowa Basement Tapes #379 12-25-2025 GUEST: Jayson Mudderman of Fate and Casket
Night Listeners -Merry Christmas and tonight we are celebrating Christmas the only way Iowa Basement Tapes knows how to do, we are going to play black metal. We have a guest tonight, Jayson Mudderman of Fate and Casket. We play his Iowa playlist of black metal oddities and we have a special holiday message from Captain Three Leg. Be sure to also check out the new Iowa Basement Tapes Instagram.Captain Three Leg - "A Captain's Christmas" (Ottumwa)Fate - "Heaven is Black" / Time I Never Had (Independence)Dryad - "Hadal" / The Abyssal Plain (Iowa City)Dryad - "Pompeii Worm" / The Abyssal Plain (Iowa City)Nethervoid - "Empty Field Eloquence" / In the Swarms of Godless Wrath (Dubuque)Envenom Ascension - "Thirty Pieces of Silver" / Murkland (Iowa City)Sept of Memnon - "Ego-död (As The Temple Burns)" / As The Temple Burns EP (Davenport) 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 [email protected]. 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
Ep 378Iowa Basement Tapes #378 12-18-2025 GUEST: Joel Sires
Night Listeners-This has been in the works for four months and it's finally happened. Joel Sires joins us in conversation tonight telling tails and truths about The Teddy Boys, Twins and a plethora of other bands. He brings us a killer playlist of tunes that I have never played on the show before. Even if you don't believe in Santa, you can believe in Joel Sires.Kiwi Pizza - "Mary Ann" (Cedar Falls)Run Dog - "The Big Room" / The Big Room (Waverly)Drink Quicklies - "Tommy Two Necks" / Acceptable Receptacle (Des Moines)Jordan Sellergren - "Stupid T-Shirt" / Banner Year (Iowa City)The Beat Strings - "Before the Light" / Love Lust Wonder (Marshalltown)Dylan Sires - "Around You" / Long Over (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 [email protected]. 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
Ep 377Iowa Basement Tapes #377 12-11-2025
Night Listeners -First off, thank you to everyone who came out this past Monday for the first dungeon synth show in Des Moines featuring Tyrant of Gorgon, Amon Lanc and Holy Vestige. 50+ people plus Iowa Public Radio came out and did some coverage for us. Tonight we are still in our ordinary format and we got some thrashy goodness for you.Idolist - "Garden of Fear" / Idolist (Marshalltown)Druids - "Dark Columns" / Spirit Compass (Des Moines)Phantom Lightkeeper - "Fire Spirit" / Shore Ghosts (Cedar Rapids)Dose - "Pellet Gun Shy" / Dose (Des Moines)Captain Three Leg - "Creeper" / 4-Way Split (Ottumwa)G.L.U.E. - "Deathwish" / pray for us now in the hour of our death (Sioux City)Rue Morgue - "Tending to the Links" / Rue Morgue (Des Moines)Vitam Eternam - "Prelude - the Gathering" / Blackened Dreams of Nocturn (Ottumwa)Chemical Buffet - "Liquid Trilogy" / The Paperhead Tapes 1994-1996 (Des Moines)True Commando - "Humiliated Son of God" / Riot Jungle II (Iowa City)Holy Vestige - "Black Rainbow" / Holy Vestige (Marshalltown)Basketball Divorce Court - "My Hidden Feelings are Crying Out in Pain" / What is a Man? (Iowa City)James and the Jelly Biscuits - "Hurry up Santa" (Ottumwa)Mainstreet Blake - "Astral Weeks" (Waterloo)Scrid - "Oralice" / The Island of Misfit Toys (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 [email protected]. 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
Ep 376Iowa Basement Tapes #376 12-4-2025
Night Listeners -Winter is here. Lots of tunes to gets all through the polar vortex that will soon be upon us.I need to pitch one last time that the first dungeon synth show in Des Moines is happening Monday, December 8th at 7PM over at LOCALS 1433 Walnut St, Des Moines, IA 50309. We have Tyrant of Gorgon (Waterloo), Amon Lanc and Holy Vestige Marshalltown. Its a free show. Younger - "Trash" / Night Milk (Iowa City)Gunk Lung - "Car on Fire" / The Burner Split (Iowa City)Moon Summoner - "4 Corners part 2" / 4 Corners (Des Moines)The Autumn Project - "Four" / La Luna de Negra (Des Moines)Full Fathom Five - "Why They Are So Worn" / Iowa Compilation Vol 1 (Des Moines)Tom Wizard - "Lair of the Fell-Witch" / The Lich Chamber (Waterloo)Holy Vestige - "Prey" / Holy Vestige (Marshalltown)Vitam Eternam - "Enslaved by the Crepuscle's Call" / Blackened Dreams Nocturn (Ottumwa)David Brooks - "Music Boy" / Iowa Compilation Vol 1 (Des Moines)toolongdidntread - "Goat Bots Got Boats" / molt (Sioux City)Nostromo - "Scruff" / Entropy (Dubuque)Meskwaki Bingo - "High On Life" / Fountain of Youth Vol II (Iowa City)Mr. Blanding's Dreamhouse - "Second Grade" / Fountain of Youth Vol II (Iowa City)Epileptic Cheetah - "Nowhere USA" / GTOF (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 [email protected]. 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