Iowa Basement Tapes

Night Listeners - Doomvember is here and I got some super stoner Iowa goodness with Into The Cove, Cockroach Dominion, CR Dicks, and Paul Cary. I don't know if that all correctly blends but I don't think it matters. 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. Hear us every Thursday at 9PM on  98.9FM KFMG – Des Moines  &  KCOE – Coe College Cedar Rapids . You can now hear us every Friday at 11PM on  90.3FM KWIT – Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI – Okoboji . If you miss the show please subscribe to the podcast archives:  https://apple.co/2MzdH5e #trustkristianday X-Ray Mary - "Devil in Boots" / Electroshock Therapy (Ottumwa) Greg Wheeler & The Polygamist Mall Cops - "Room" / Room (Des Moines) Stickdog - "Up Above the World" /  Stickdog...

Night Listeners - Recorded just 2 hours before I had to hop on a plane from Houston back to Iowa. A little buzzed from having birthday drinks in the bar of the Omni Hotel. Lots of great tunes. 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. Hear us every Thursday at 9PM on  98.9FM KFMG – Des Moines  &  KCOE – Coe College Cedar Rapids . You can now hear us every Friday at 11PM on  90.3FM KWIT – Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI – Okoboji . If you miss the show please subscribe to the podcast archives:  https://apple.co/2MzdH5e #trustkristianday Drednex - "Neurotic Boy" / No Class Project (Cedar Falls) Lord Green - "We Sleep" / Discography (Quad Cities) Wadge - "The Science of Dipshits" / The End of Ethnology (Ottumwa) Into the Cove - "Pilgrimage...

Night Listeners - It has been one year since Iowa Basement Tapes hit the airwaves. The first show aired July 5th 2018 at 9PM on 98.9 FM KFMG - Des Moines. I know most of you who listen to this show now probably won't be listening tonight as it is the 4th of July (by the way HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!). I do this show every week no matter what. If I am sick, if my cat passed away (both happened), or if the world burning away (global warming is real) there will always be a new show every week. Thank you for listening. 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. Hear us every Thursday at 9PM on  98.9FM KFMG – Des Moines  &  KCOE – Coe College Cedar Rapids . You can now hear us every Friday at 11PM on  90.3FM KWIT – Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI – Okoboji . If you miss the show please subscribe to the podcast archives:  https://apple.co/2MzdH5e...

Night Listeners - I have been on a Wych Elm kick this week. Picked up the two Milk Sickness records from Sump Pump and they absolutely rule. Tonight I premiere the new single When Bitter Spring Sleeps and some goodies from a collection of recordings from my good buddy Mark Heggen. 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. Hear us every Thursday at 9PM on  98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines  &  KCOE - Coe College Cedar Rapids . You can now hear us every Friday at 11PM on  90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji . If you miss the show please subscribe to the podcast archives:  https://apple.co/2MzdH5e #trustkristianday The Wych Elm - "Anthropologist" / Mother Bark Spit (Des Moines) Barron Von Otto Matic - "Revenge of the Showman" / Big Scale Cars (Des Moines) ATOY - "Chemical Boys" / Demo (Des Moines) When Bi...

Night Listeners - I am all over the place tonight with tunes from every part of the state: Sioux City, Des Moines, Waterloo, Waverly, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Clinton, Keokuk, and Dubuque. I was presented with an email earlier in the week from Bensmasher sharing with me some really interesting finds. One of the most interesting is a group from Clinton called Mississippi Belle. Two boat captains who made a record using a keyboard a drum machine. I love this stuff. 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. Hear us every Thursday at 9PM on  98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines  &  KCOE - Coe College Cedar Rapids . You can now hear us every Friday at 11PM on  90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji . If you miss the show please subscribe to the podcast archives:  https://apple.co/2MzdH5e #trustkristianday Finally Some Action - "Mo...

Night Listeners - Happy 40th episode! Tonight's a return to form for Iowa Basement Tapes and I haven't been this excited since to share some tunes since those early shows back on 98.9FM KFMG. Lots of first time plays tonight including Trouble Lights, Stewardesses, Road Soda, Hairless Monk, Catholic Werewolves, Erik Johnson, The Spider Magnets, and Hoyer Hoper. All I can say is welcome to party town... Iowa Basement Tapes now has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out  iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com  and download any of the releases for free. Hear us every Thursday at 9PM on  98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines  &  KCOE - Coe College Cedar Rapids . You can now hear us every Friday at 11PM on  90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji . If you miss the show please subscribe to the podcast archives:  https://apple.co/2MzdH5e #trustkristianday Trouble Lights - "Safe With Me" / The Endless Prom (Fairfield) Office - "Wizard ...

Night Listeners - My long overdue conversation with Trey Reis is finally here. Trey started the Warm Gospel label several years ago and it now has nearly seventy releases. Nearly everything I play on tonight's show comes from a Warm Gospel release. Plus some new synth pop from Keokuk's Finally Some Action. A big shout out to my boy Justin Beahm for giving me some incite on them. Be sure to check out the Justin Beahm Radio Hour on Apple podcasts. Iowa Basement Tapes now has its own archive of Iowa music. Be sure to check out  iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com  and download any of the releases for free. Hear us every Thursday at 9PM on  98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines  &  KCOE - Coe College Cedar Rapids . You can now hear us every Friday at 11PM on  90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji . If you miss the show please subscribe to the podcast archives:  https://apple.co/2MzdH5e #trustkristianday Finally Some Action - "Neon" / Finally ...

Night Listeners - I am recording the show this week from Bryan, Texas. I'm sharing a hotel room with Dylan Sires and as I sit producing this weeks content he is blasting through the forward of a new book. So he will not actually be joining me on this weeks episode. I got new material from Artificial Stars in Sioux City. They have a tight alternative/pop sound going for them that I think everyone will love. I also got some first time plays tonight from Tuff Jerks out of Fairfield, 3 Finger Better out of Des Moines, and more material by the shortlived funk skunk band, The Grifters. Hear us every Thursday at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines & KCOE - Coe College Cedar Rapids . You can now hear us every Friday at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji . If you miss the show please subscribe to the podcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e Captain Three Leg - "The Clap" / Split with DSM (Ottumwa) 3 Finger Betty - "They Live We Sleep...

Night Listeners - It's a no wave new year here at Iowa Basement Tapes. I promise next week I will bring back some groovy happiness but first I got some new tunes (new to me at least) from Lucy Bucket from Cedar Rapids, a new demo from the CR Dicks (get it while you can), and some juicy electronic stew from Polybond. Listen to the show live every Thursday at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines and KCOE Coe College Student Radio . #Trustkristianday Lucy Bucket - "Lucky" / Cedar Rapids (Cedar Rapids) Karent Meat and the Vahnevants - "I Thot We Were OK" / Karent Meats the Vahnevants (Des Moines) CR Dicks - "Demo1" / Demo1 (Cedar Rapids) Polybond - "Mushroom Antenna" / Mushroom (?) Zuul - "Out With the Old" / Zuul II (Iowa City) Twins - "Everything Blue" / Square America (Cedar Falls) Dorks - "Rosey" / Iowa Compilation Vol. 5: A Few Works After Drinks (?) P. Morrow - "Swallowed Harvest" ...

Night Listeners, This week I am in the KFMG studios with studio manger Gary Monte interviewing filmmaker Jack Meggers about his life in Mason City during the grunge era of the 90s. We play his band Ming's Daughter as well as fellow northern Iowa bands Todd's Neat Futons and Sorry Excuse. Jack left Iowa for fifteen years and returned in 2014 where he was reintroduced to Iowa's music scene. He brings on a handful of tracks that have inspired in creatively since returning to the state. Listen to us on 98.9 KFMG - LP Des Moines and KCOE - Coe College Cedar Rapids . Catch up on the archives via iTunes . Waverly - "Stop This" / Fledging (Iowa City) The Bends - "3AT" / Live at Gabes 04-30-2003 (Cedar Rapids) The Roughhousers - "Feed You're Standing On" / Woodchip Soul (Iowa City) Ming's Daughter - "Marathon Prophet" / Demo (Mason City) Todds Neat Futons - "?" / Demo (Belmond) Sorry Excuse - "?" / Dem...

Night Listeners - Happy Thanksgiving! If you are one of our listeners from KCOE in Cedar Rapids, we have a ton of tunes from your neck of the woods. Digging through the crates we got an old demo from ol' Will Whitmore of his tune "Gravel Road". This was ripped directly from the cassette that was mailed to Brad Adita for the Another Day In The Air compilations. I also got new newer tunes from Peanut Ricky, Huxley Maxwell, and Waverly. This playlist was crafted for those who are chilling in their food coma and just want everyone to leave them alone. Jack Meggers will be joining me next week to discuss Mason City's once-thriving alternative music scene. Listen to Iowa Basement Tapes live on 98.9 FM KFMG-LP Des Moines and on KCOE Coe College Student Radio. If you miss the show, be sure to subscribe to the archives on iTunes , Google Play, and Stitcher . -Kristian #TrustKristianDay Goldblums - "Black Comb" / Drug Window (Des Moines) William Elliot W...

Night Listeners - This week marks our first episode syndicating to KCOE , the student-run radio station at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. We will be airing from 7PM to 8PM on KCOE - Cedar Rapids & from 9PM to 10PM on KFMG - Des Moines. Tonight Deerslayer returns to Iowa Basements after a nearly two-month hiatus. I also got some Voodoo Gearshift , Bankshot , Acoustic Guillotine , and of course Captain Three Leg . For Full show notes please visit www.kristianday.com . - Kristian #trustkristianday

Night Listeners of 98.9FM KFMG - Dude, October is coming to an end! I hope everyone has been enjoying the Halloween season to the fullest potential. Tonight was our last show for October. The next time you hear my voice it will be November. I can't say much will change around here. I will still be playing the best in the heartland's alternative music but Iowa Basement Tapes is in the process of syndicating to other stations across the state of Iowa. It has been something that has always been in the works and I hope more music is discovered along the way. Tonight I spin tunes from Iowa City's Milk Duct Tape who does a cover of Blue Oyster Cult's "Godzilla", Sioux City Pete, Samuel Locke Ward, The Vahnevants and Sires. - Kristian Day #trustkristianday Milk Duct Tape - "Gojira" / Gojira (Iowa City) Sioux City Pete and The Beggers - "Farmlands" / Necro Blues (Sioux City) Person Whale - "Boogeyman" / Last Train Out Of Dogtow...

Night Listeners of 98.9 FM KFMG - We are halfway through October and I am in the mood for blues. My buddy Buffalo Bonker brought me a pile of Iowa blues tunes and I'm going to dig into them with Scarlet Runner from Gilbertville and The Graveyard Blues Band from Cedar Rapids (there is also rad avant-garde jazz band from Lansing, MI called Graveyards that everyone should check out). I also met a stone mason who talked to me about the Iowa metal and punk scene of the 80s. He talked a lot about Voodoo Gearshift which made me finally want to check them out. I also got Sioux City Pete with a song from Necro Blues (I had to omit the title). For full show notes please check out my blog at Kristian Day.com | On The Radio . - Kristian #trustkristianday

Night Listeners of 98.9 FM KFMG - Tonight I got stuck on a surf kick. The Afterdarks, Person Whale, and Steve Reverb & The Sound Tones all in the first 20 minutes. Person Whale has made its way into my heart. I love how sloppy the sound quality is and I wish more musicians would cut themselves some slack and let things sound a little more organic once and awhile. After much talk about my buddy Bensmasher (curator of 319dude.bandcamp.com ), I finally got one of his recordings into the mix. Before I ever met Ben in person, we chatted on AOL Instant Messanger. He told me he had a "hippy industrial" project called Harm. When we met in person at Relics Records he gave me a copy. This was around 2003 and I wish to this day that he had recorded more material. At one point I had a remixed version of "Ten Red Months" that was more guitar-based vs the long ambient version that is on the album. When he first shared with me the 319 Dude Bandcamp archive, I asked him why H...