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Iowa Basement Tapes

Iowa Basement Tapes

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

Available Episodes 10

Night Listeners -

We got an interview with Patrick Gilligan from the dread filled hills of Dubuque, Iowa. We talk about his history with his original solo noise project I Like You Go Home and his most recent one-man hardcore drum n synth band If I Could Just Get Some Sleep.

  1. If I Could Just Get Some Sleep - "Run" / If I Could Just Get Some Sleep (Dubuque)
  2. Closet Witch - "Rule by Bacon" / Complete Discography (Quad Cities)
  3. Dredge - "The Crumbling" / Ashbreathers (Dubuque)
  4. The Tanks - "3D Glasses" / Pull The Trigger, Bear (Dubuque/Iowa City)
  5. Modern Life is War - "Media" / Fever Hunting (Marshalltown)
  6. Kerosene Circuit - "Try as I May" / Kerosene Circuit (Dubuque)

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

Night Listeners-

Welcome to November and I guess welcome to America. It's our first music show in a few weeks and I tried to pick some tunes to match the vibe of the times. We got new tunes from Captain Three Leg, PSYOP and Pozar.

 

  1. Why Bother - "Down in the Vault" / Hey, At Least You're Me (Mason City)
  2. PSYOP - "State Violence" / Dare to Live (Iowa City)
  3. Closet Witch - "Date the Night" / Yeah Yeah Yeah its Closet Witch (Iowa City)
  4. Captain Three Leg - "Altar of Death" / Satan Murder Suicide (Ottumwa)
  5. Captain Three Leg - "Fatal Instructions" / Satan Murder Suicide (Ottumwa)
  6. Captain Three Leg - "My Pal Satan" / Satan Murder Suicide (Ottumwa)
  7. Captain Three Leg - "Biological Death" / Satan Murder Suicide (Ottumwa)
  8. Citrus Boy - "Federal Art Money Grant" / Conniption Fits (Ottumwa)
  9. Concrete Cannibal - "All things Heavy" / Songs for Friends (Sioux City)
  10. Gossip Cult - "Boy Divine" (Iowa City)
  11. Tomb Wizard - "Moonless" / The Lich Chamber (Waterloo)
  12. Canu Draig - "Lost in Caverns of Damp Moss" / In Capable Hands (Ames)
  13. Brick - "Six" / It's a Wonderful Life (Iowa City)
  14. Hot Sorry - "I Gotta Run" / Demo (Iowa City)
  15. Keepers of the Carpet - "Live Forever" / 15 Year Deluxe Version (Ames)
  16. Human Error - "Middle Class Crass" / Die (Iowa City)
  17. Hot Carl - "I want Girls" / It Hits the Sauce (Dubuque)
  18. Hot Carl - "Here with Me" / It Hits the Sauce (Dubuque)
  19. Pozar - "The Fear" / Frosty Moon (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

Night Listeners-

Happy Halloween from Iowa Basement Tapes! This is our first show on Halloween and we brought it. Tonight we have Pitch Black Manor from the Quad Cities. They were last on the show back in 2020 when they first reformed and a lot has happened since then. We got their spooky playlist for Halloween night and get deep into Quad City lore....

  1. Pitch Black Manor - "The Thing in the Woods" / Halloween Scene (Quad Cities)
  2. The One Night Standards - "Rocket" (Davenport)
  3. Wisteria Losenge - Shinier than Yours" (Bettendorf)
  4. Lament - "The Conversation Turns" (Des Moines)
  5. Sherman Hillside Stranglers - "Sundown" (Des Moines)
  6. Centaur Noir - "Quad City Nights" (Quad Cities)

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

Night Listeners -

Continuing our spooky season this month we have an interview with Phil Young and Greg Wheeler of  NIGHT STORIES. We get into their Iowa play list and tell the history of the project.

  1. Night Stories - "Nightmare on NES" (Des Moines)
  2. Glass Ox - "A Celebration of Death" / A Celebration of Death (Marshalltown)
  3. Druids - "Salvation - the Destructor" / Pray for Water (Des Moines)
  4. Haploid - "Ersatz, Serrated" / Villains Amis (Des Moines)
  5. Traffic Death - "The Wild" / Don't Be a Projectile (Des Moines)
  6. Moon Summoner - "4 Corners Pt." / 4 Corners (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 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

Night Listeners -
Spooky season continues here at Iowa Basement Tapes. We got new songs from Pitch Black Manor, Spider Translator, and Ill Omen. Heavy on the electronics tonight but I promise you will fall dizzy to their heathen signals.

  1. Son of the Morning - "The Wild Hunt" / Son of the Morning (Des Moines)
  2. Night Stories - "Sam's Equinox" (Des Moines)
  3. Pitch Black Manor - "The Halloween Scene" / The Halloween Scene (Quad Cities)
  4. The Horrors - "Jack the Ripper" / The Horrors (Cedar Rapids)
  5. Nightrazor - "Oxide" / Bleeding Edge of the Night (Des Moines)
  6. X-Ray Mary - "Two Legged Devil" / Basement Tapes Vol 1 (Ottumwa)
  7. Nebuleth - "Semblence of Lucidity" / Relected from the Future (Cedar Rapids)
  8. Spider Translator - "Teenage Nightmare" / Wash it All in Gray (Des Moines)
  9. Surf Zombies - "Rogue Wave" / Return of the Skeleton (Des Moines)
  10. Mr. Softheart - "It Happened Like this" / Songs for Subdued Space (Cedar Falls)
  11. Ill Omen - "Prove You Are Worth Saving" (Cedar Rapids)
  12. Pozar - "Cold Wind" / Cold Wind (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

Night Listeners-

I have played the electronic tunes of Michael Duede since before the pandemic. Why I haven't had him on the show yet is beyond me. We talk about his work in electronic music, the giallo film score he did last year and he shares with us his Iowa playlist.

  1. Michael Duede - "Heavy Fork" / Ten Stories to Make You Frown (Des Moines)
  2. Haploid - "Rejectamenta" / Villans Amiss (Des Moines)
  3. Michael Duede - "Main Theme" / To Witness Death (Des Moines)
  4. Michael Duede - "Gong" / To Witness Death (Des Moines)
  5. Miss Christine - "Google University" (Iowa City)
  6. Men in Lead Masks - "It's Just there to Look Nice" / Soak Zone (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 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

Night Listeners -

We are guns blazing on the first episode of October featuring tunes by Pitch Black Manor, Snake Transmitter, Finally Some Action, and The Poly-Mall Cops. We also have the a first time from the Siouxer Rats! Sioux Cities surf driven punk band lead by Richie Vomit. I have been wanting to play this band since we started the show in 2018 and now we finally have some recorded tunes from them.

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

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

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.

  1. The Horrors - "Every Inch of my Love" / The Horrors (Cedar Rapids)
  2. House of Large Sizes - "What if there is a Fire" / One Big Cake (Cedar Falls)
  3. Moveable Feast - "End of the World" / Another Iowa Compilation (Des Moines)
  4. The Least Worst - "Apology Tour" / First Worst (Ottumwa)
  5. Die Mutts - "Old Videos" / Die Mutts! (Des Moines)
  6. The Hollowmen - "Never Ending Ceiling" / Another Iowa Compilation (Des Moines)
  7. Ill Omen feat. Frontal Assault - "Born to Die" / Born to Dies (Cedar Rapids)
  8. Deerslayer - "Music Table 2" / Music Table (Cedar Rapids)
  9. Finally Some Action - "Circuits of Time" / Circuits of Time (Keokuk)
  10. Captain Three Leg - "Esteban" / split with Short Order (Ottumwa)
  11. Captain Three Leg - "Hardcore Instruction" / split with Short Order (Ottumwa)
  12. Captain Three Leg - "Bedroom Brown" / split with Short Order (Ottumwa)
  13. Captain Three Leg - "Bang & Whimper" / split with Short Order (Ottumwa)
  14. Captain Three Leg - "Kid Prison" / split with Short Order (Ottumwa)
  15. Captain Three Leg - "Record Detectives" / split with Short Order (Ottumwa)
  16. Druids - "The Beginning of Fire" / Pray for Water (Des Moines)
  17. Traffic Death - "Hopeless Culture" / Don't Be a Projectile (Des Moines)
  18. Pozar - "The Storm" / Eclipse of Truth (Cedar Rapids)
  19. Moon Summoner - "Part 2" / Four Corners (Des Moines)
  20. 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 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

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