Episodes

  • Iowa Basement Tapes #360 07-17-2025
    Jul 18 2025

    Night Listeners -

    I am recording this show from Augsburg, Germany. I am digging into some stuff from what I would like to call "The Time of the Void" this was between 2004 - 2009 which was the era when I really had no clue what was going on in the Iowa music scene. We got Suburban Scum, Grubby Earnie, Conniption Fit and Shiloh Church. Plus a handful of stuff from the Brains and Pencils - A DIY Compilation from Iowa City tape.

    1. Ice Hockey - "I Can Feel It In the Air Tonight (live)" (Quad Cities)
    2. Distorted Fantasy - "Smoking the Dead" / Distorted Fantasy (Sioux City)
    3. Earl Howitzer - "From a Cat's Point of View" / From a Cat's Point of View (Iowa City)
    4. Suburban Scum - "Kill Yourself" / Nuke the Midwest (Des Moines)
    5. The Agrestix - "Boot Boys" / On The Street (Davenport)
    6. Haunted Reason - "Forgotten Ways" / Still Born (Council Bluffs / Ames)
    7. Canary In The Mine - "Splitting Atoms Singe the Camel's Hair" / Brains and Pencils - A DIY Compilation from Iowa City (Iowa City)
    8. Edward Gray - "Just Born" / Brains and Pencils - A DIY Compilation from Iowa City (Iowa City)
    9. Grubby Ernie - "Oi! Tonight" / AGGRO-Culture Compilation Vol. 1 (Ames)
    10. Conniption Fit - "Since" / AGGRO-Culture Compilation Vol. 1 (Shell Rock)
    11. Shiloh Church - "Punx and Monks" / AGGRO-Culture Compilation Vol. 1 (Des Moines)
    12. Phantom Lightkeeper - "Siren" / Doom Surf (Marion)
    13. Blaster - "Big Black Cat" / Demo 2023 (Iowa City)
    14. Human Error - "Out in the Streets" / Die (Iowa City)
    15. Greg Wheeler and the Poly-Mall Cops - "Slowly Erasing You" / Manic Fever (Des Moines)
    16. Safety Second - "Things Change" / AGGRO-Culture Compilation Vol. 1 (Marshaltown)

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    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
    Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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    59 mins
  • Iowa Basement Tapes #359 07-10-2025
    Jul 11 2025

    Night Listeners -

    I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. We are back with a packed show of boppers and thrashers. Continuing to the roll of Justin Beahm's new doom surf project, Phantom Lightkeeper and we revisit some old friends like Flesh and Blood, Chemical Buffet and Mold.

    1. 7inch Wave - "1.44MB Floppy Disc" (Ames)
    2. Abscess - "Discourteous" / Political Vomit (Perry)
    3. Flesh and Blood - "Mad Bomber" / Scary Noises (Des Moines)
    4. Dick Hubert - "Rope a Ghost" (Dubuque)
    5. Phantom Lightkeeper - "Red Tied" (Marion)
    6. Glass Ox - "Grit" / Celebration of Death (Marshalltown)
    7. NIGHTRAZOR - "Nitropolis (jacket mix)" (Des Moines)
    8. Chemical Buffet - "jYEA" / Chemical Buffet's Version (Des Moines)
    9. Nebuleth - "Memories of My Homeworld" / Allfather Machine (Cedar Rapids)
    10. The Wych Elm - "Vanessa (excerpt) / Milk Sickness I (Des Moines)
    11. Organz! - "Down the Road" / Terribles Est Locus Iste - Burned Alive Records Year One (Quad Cities)
    12. Mold - "Danger UBX" / Mold (Iowa City)
    13. Easy Fruit - "Hybernation" / Easy Fruit (Des Moines)
    14. Bottledog - "Ballet O'Beans" / Another Product (Iowa City)

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    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
    Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Iowa Basement Tapes #358 07-03-2025 GUEST: Joel Anderson of Ten Grand
    Jul 4 2025

    Night Listeners -

    We are celebrating six years on the air with the legendary Joel Anderson of Ten Grand, USAUSA, Dope Walkers and Slughive. This show has been in the works for months and it was worth the wait.

    1. Ten Grand - "Respect Me" / This Is The Way To Rule (Iowa City)
    2. House of Large Sizes - "I Think I Know That" / Idiots Out Wandering Around (Cedar Rapids)
    3. William Eliot Whitmore - "Gravel Road" / Ashes to Dust (Keokuk)
    4. Burmese - "Revved Up like a Douche" / Burmese is Dead (Iowa City)
    5. The Pee Pees - "College Town" / How We Do It In Ghetto Land (Iowa City)
    6. Meth and Goats - "Dope Tantrum" / Split with Ten Grand (Davenport)

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    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
    Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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

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    1 hr
  • KFMG Morning Show with Gary Monte GUEST: Kristian Day of Iowa Basement Tapes
    Jul 3 2025

    Night Listeners-

    Meant to post this the morning before the anniversary show but I misplaced the thumb drive that this show on it. Iowa Basement Tapes started on 98.9 KFMG here in Des Moines. We have had the same time slot since since 2018: 9PM Thursdays. We have since syndicated out west with Siouxland Public Media on KWIT in Sioux City and KOJI in Okoboji.

    Station Manager Gary has been occasional co-host over the years and was the first person to believe in what this show could be. Thank you to all of you who have supported this show over the years. I don't see a time in the future that this show will ever stop. I might stop because I am only mortal. But somethings become bigger than ourselves.

    PS I realize it's ACTUALLY the show's 7th anniversary and not the 6th. But I already deep into saying it was our 6th and just rolled with it.

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    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
    Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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

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    26 mins
  • Iowa Basement Tapes #357 06-26-2025
    Jun 27 2025

    1. The Skamikazies - "8000 Watts" / Behold (Quad Cities)
    2. Burmese - "Railway of Death" / Burmese is Dead (Iowa City)
    3. Seas of Miranda - "Hanging out with Boat Bunker 25" / In Still Motion (Iowa City)
    4. Only Ten Between Us - "PPie" / Only Ten Between Us (Iowa City)
    5. Swing by Seven - "I'd Rather Be In Modesto" / Swing By Seven (Iowa City)
    6. Eclipse of Eden - "Disprice" / Eclipse of Eden (Iowa City)
    7. If I Could Just Get Some Sleep - "Choose" / 010715 (Dubuque)
    8. Fate - "Where Am I Going? / Another Day Alone in My Thoughts (Cedar Falls)
    9. Finally Some Action - "Stay Asleep" / Stay Asleep (Keokuk)
    10. Phantom Lightkeeper - "Funeral At Sea" / Doom Surf (Marion)
    11. the Vida Blue - "87 Yankees" / Enough (Iowa City)
    12. Organz -Hott Lixx and High Kixx" / The Cuts! (Quad Cities)
    13. The Huns - "Fugitives from Love" / Rednecks Under the Moonlight (Iowa City)
    14. Blist Her - "Lines" / Lines (Burlington)

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    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
    Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

    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 #356 06-19-2025
    Jun 20 2025

    Night Listeners -

    June heatwave is hitting us hard. I walk outside and I can just feel the air keeping your flesh sweating. Anyways, sorry this show took a minute to archive.

    1. The Vida Blue - "Broken Jaw Factory" / Enough (Iowa City)
    2. Love Spell - "Farewell" / Royale (Amana)
    3. Darling - "Graveyard Girl" / Ends in Fantasy (Quad Cities)
    4. The Windmill Failure - "Firehouse Five" / Toasted Sushi Nori (Iowa City)
    5. Seas of Miranda - "Knockdown" / In Still Motion (Iowa City)
    6. Make Them Endure - "I've Been Thinking About Crime"
    7. Nuclear Biologist Rocket Surgeons - "Teoria Delle Stringhe" / Better Music Through Research (Cedar Rapids)
    8. Necrotic Theurgist - "Damnation Asunder Live" (Iowa City)
    9. White Death - "Chi dara fine al gran dolore" (?)
    10. The Occasions - "Tree Fort" / The Occasions (Iowa City)

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    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
    Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

    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 #355 06-12-2025
    Jun 13 2025
    Night Listeners -I got a powerhouse of rippers tonight with some loud ones from Joretta Oaks, In Loving Memory, Idolist, Miasma and Rational Anthem!Plus new music from Deivore and Captain Three Leg.Joretta Oaks - "High School" / Ichirus Falls (Ottumwa)In Loving Memory - "In My Name" / A Gentler Sun (Des Moines)Idolist - "Garden of Fear" / Idolist (Marshalltown)Miasma - "Where You Going City Boy?" / Calligraphy in Blood (Cedar Rapids)Rational Anthem - "Stay Together For The Chicks" / It's Only Permanent (Iowa City)Younger - "Mouth Stuff" / Night Milk (Iowa City)Karen Meat - "Avoiding You" / Tell Me Who I am (Des Moines)Deivore - "01" / Abandoned Yourself (Iowa City)Tomb Wizard - "Piercing the Geist with Frozen Spears" / Melancholic, Medieval Spirits (Waterloo)Bellyard - "Storm" / Bellyard (Des Moines)Running Man - "Dead Heavens" / Running Man EP (Quad Cities)Captain Three Leg - Selections from Seamen Quest (Ottumwa)Emerge Again - "Track 1" / Bridges Worth Rebuilding (Cedar Rapids)Deerslayer - "24 Years Later" / DR660 Emo Dishwasher (Cedar Rapids)Fate - "Where Am I Going?" / Another Day Alone in my Thoughts (Cedar Falls)Ill Omen - "He Who Dwells in the Marshes" / March of Decay (Cedar Rapids) Follow me 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 MoinesSaturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - DecorahWednesdays 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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    1 hr
  • Iowa Basement Tapes #354 06-05-2025 GUEST: Diana Weishaar of Contakta, The Host Country & The L.I.F.E. Project
    Jun 6 2025

    Night Listeners -

    Tonight we have Diana Weishaar of Contakta, The Host Country, The L.I.F.E. Project and host of the In The Round podcast. We talk about growing up in Fairfield, going on tour with Breaking Benjamin and Bush and we dig into her Iowa playlist.

    1. Contakta - "Confession" / Bodyheat EP (Des Moines)
    2. Joel Sires - "This House" (Cedar Falls)
    3. Finally Some Action - "Sensor Recall" / Circuits of Time EP (Keokuk)
    4. Abbie Sawyer - "Raise My Wonder" (Des Moines)
    5. Salt Fox - "Oak Tree" (Cedar Falls)
    6. Crystal City - "Three-Dimensionality" / Three-Dimensionality (Iowa City)

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    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
    Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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

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    59 mins