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  • Iowa Basement Tapes #382 01-22-2026
    Jan 23 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 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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  • Iowa Basement Tapes #381 01-15-2026
    Jan 16 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.

    1. Schmoz - "Paul Bearer" / Tales EP (Sioux City)
    2. happy thoughts - "my arms are a sawdust factory" / stab stab revolution (Des Moines)
    3. River City Rejects - "1891" / River City Rejects (Omaha)
    4. Phantom Lightkeeper - "Hidden Mother" (Cedar Rapids)
    5. In Loving Memory - "Great Day That Dawns" / A Gentler Sun (Des Moines)
    6. Drednex - "Army, Inc" / Co-Op (Cedar Falls)
    7. Miasma - "I Need Some Pain Killers Pronto!" / Calligraphy in Blood (Cedar Rapids)
    8. Vitalith - "Sooner than Expected, Night Falls" / A Short Walk Home (Waterloo)
    9. When Bitter Spring Sleeps - "Haunted by the Death of Sanity" (Cedar Rapids)
    10. North to Alaska - "A Move to Vancouver" / Everything Right Now (Cedar Rapids)
    11. Zuul - "No Friend of Mine" / Zuul (Iowa City)
    12. Skin of Earth - "Auto Icon" / notebook (Des Moines)
    13. Running Man - "In the Shadows" / Running Man (Quad Cities)
    14. Anchoress - "rain on skin" / someone needs to light the way (Ames)

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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
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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  • Iowa Basement Tapes #380 01-01-2026 HAPPY NEW YEAR!
    Jan 2 2026
    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 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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  • Iowa Basement Tapes #379 12-25-2025 GUEST: Jayson Mudderman of Fate and Casket
    Dec 26 2025

    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.

    1. Captain Three Leg - "A Captain's Christmas" (Ottumwa)
    2. Fate - "Heaven is Black" / Time I Never Had (Independence)
    3. Dryad - "Hadal" / The Abyssal Plain (Iowa City)
    4. Dryad - "Pompeii Worm" / The Abyssal Plain (Iowa City)
    5. Nethervoid - "Empty Field Eloquence" / In the Swarms of Godless Wrath (Dubuque)
    6. Envenom Ascension - "Thirty Pieces of Silver" / Murkland (Iowa City)
    7. Sept of Memnon - "Ego-död (As The Temple Burns)" / As The Temple Burns EP (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
    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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  • Iowa Basement Tapes #378 12-18-2025 GUEST: Joel Sires
    Dec 19 2025

    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.

    1. Kiwi Pizza - "Mary Ann" (Cedar Falls)
    2. Run Dog - "The Big Room" / The Big Room (Waverly)
    3. Drink Quicklies - "Tommy Two Necks" / Acceptable Receptacle (Des Moines)
    4. Jordan Sellergren - "Stupid T-Shirt" / Banner Year (Iowa City)
    5. The Beat Strings - "Before the Light" / Love Lust Wonder (Marshalltown)
    6. Dylan Sires - "Around You" / Long Over (Waterloo)

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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
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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  • Iowa Basement Tapes #377 12-11-2025
    Dec 12 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.

    1. Idolist - "Garden of Fear" / Idolist (Marshalltown)
    2. Druids - "Dark Columns" / Spirit Compass (Des Moines)
    3. Phantom Lightkeeper - "Fire Spirit" / Shore Ghosts (Cedar Rapids)
    4. Dose - "Pellet Gun Shy" / Dose (Des Moines)
    5. Captain Three Leg - "Creeper" / 4-Way Split (Ottumwa)
    6. G.L.U.E. - "Deathwish" / pray for us now in the hour of our death (Sioux City)
    7. Rue Morgue - "Tending to the Links" / Rue Morgue (Des Moines)
    8. Vitam Eternam - "Prelude - the Gathering" / Blackened Dreams of Nocturn (Ottumwa)
    9. Chemical Buffet - "Liquid Trilogy" / The Paperhead Tapes 1994-1996 (Des Moines)
    10. True Commando - "Humiliated Son of God" / Riot Jungle II (Iowa City)
    11. Holy Vestige - "Black Rainbow" / Holy Vestige (Marshalltown)
    12. Basketball Divorce Court - "My Hidden Feelings are Crying Out in Pain" / What is a Man? (Iowa City)
    13. James and the Jelly Biscuits - "Hurry up Santa" (Ottumwa)
    14. Mainstreet Blake - "Astral Weeks" (Waterloo)
    15. Scrid - "Oralice" / The Island of Misfit Toys (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
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
    Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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  • Iowa Basement Tapes #376 12-4-2025
    Dec 5 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.

    1. Younger - "Trash" / Night Milk (Iowa City)
    2. Gunk Lung - "Car on Fire" / The Burner Split (Iowa City)
    3. Moon Summoner - "4 Corners part 2" / 4 Corners (Des Moines)
    4. The Autumn Project - "Four" / La Luna de Negra (Des Moines)
    5. Full Fathom Five - "Why They Are So Worn" / Iowa Compilation Vol 1 (Des Moines)
    6. Tom Wizard - "Lair of the Fell-Witch" / The Lich Chamber (Waterloo)
    7. Holy Vestige - "Prey" / Holy Vestige (Marshalltown)
    8. Vitam Eternam - "Enslaved by the Crepuscle's Call" / Blackened Dreams Nocturn (Ottumwa)
    9. David Brooks - "Music Boy" / Iowa Compilation Vol 1 (Des Moines)
    10. toolongdidntread - "Goat Bots Got Boats" / molt (Sioux City)
    11. Nostromo - "Scruff" / Entropy (Dubuque)
    12. Meskwaki Bingo - "High On Life" / Fountain of Youth Vol II (Iowa City)
    13. Mr. Blanding's Dreamhouse - "Second Grade" / Fountain of Youth Vol II (Iowa City)
    14. Epileptic Cheetah - "Nowhere USA" / GTOF (Cedar Rapids)

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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
    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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  • Iowa Basement Tapes #375 11-27-2025 Happy Thanksgiving
    Nov 28 2025

    Night Listeners-

    Happy Thanksgiving! I tried to make a themed show tonight and I don't know how well I did but the highlight is the new holiday EP from Captain Three Leg called "Thrashgiving". Plus new Tomb Wizard and we revisit some classics including Moveable Feast, Slughive (early band of Joel Anderson of Ten Grand), Ritual of Agony and The Hollowmen.

    1. Moveable Feast - "The End of the World" / Live at the Laughing Iguana 1989 (Des Moines)
    2. Meth and Goats - "She Murdered Everything in Sight" / Split with Ten Grand (Quad Cities)
    3. Running Man - "Numbskulls" / Running Man (Quad Cities)
    4. Rue Morgue - "Man, I Stuck my arm in the blender" / Demo (Des Moines)
    5. Why Bother - "Helen's Father (Has No Heart) / Case Studies (Mason City)
    6. Captain Three Leg - "Thrashgiving" / Thrashgiving (Ottumwa)
    7. Slughive - "If it works..." / Slughive (Cedar Falls)
    8. Fate - "Without You (Part 3) / Another Day Alone in My Thoughts (Cedar Falls)
    9. Tomb Wizard - "Their Scales Shine" / Dark Draconic Ambience Vol. 2 (Waterloo)
    10. Dylan Shiv and the Shanks - "Combat Punx" / Combat Punx (Independence)
    11. Swing by Seven - "I'd Rather Be In Modesto" / Swing by Seven (Sioux City)
    12. Ritual of Agony - "Pariah" / Half Past Dead (Des Moines)
    13. House of Large Sizes - "One and a Half on a Hill" / Iowa Compilation Vol 1 (Cedar Falls)
    14. The Hollowmen - "Never Ending Ceiling" / Iowa Compilation Vol 1 (Des Moines)

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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
    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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