Iowa Basement Tapes

Night Listeners - This is the final broadcast for 2018. We have a had a hell of a good year since we started back in July. Lots of great tunes and conversations with artists and fans alike. Tires - "8" / Tires (Des Moines) Waverly - "Do and Don't Leave" / Fledgling (Iowa City) Spidercake - "Skin Graft Jazz" / Spidercake  (Des Moines) Piss Exorcist - "Mouth Rot" / Piss Exorcist (Quad Cities) Elizabeth Moen - "Tripple Scoop" / A Million Miles (Iowa City) Peanut Ricky - "Bad Luck" / I Think I am Not OK (Iowa City) Sex Funeral - "B2" / Due For Electronic Percussion (Dubuque) Nicholas Naoti - "Side B" Excerpt / Watery Grave (Fairfield) P. Morrow - "Mountain" / At Least The Year (Grinnell) Captain Three Leg - "347" / 3516 (Ottumwa) When Bitter Spring Sleeps - "Eternity Speaks" / Star-Thrown (Cedar Rapids)

Night Listeners - Christmas is next week and I am chilling in the basement of Dylan Sires' Dad's house in Waterloo, Iowa. I bet no one saw that coming. Dylan is upstairs, I asked if he wanted to join me tonight for the show and he politely declined. I play a lot of chill music with a dash of noise with metal for dessert. Winter is a weird time for music. I hate going to shows because it's too cold and there is nothing worse than being a little tipsy when it is below freezing. However, I do love warm ambient music during this time of year. I remember being in high school and jamming Sigur Ros - ( ) during winter break when the snow covered the streets and Christmas lights illuminated my basement bedroom in my mom's house in Ely, Iowa. So for the next few weeks, I am going to be picking out lots of "warm" music. Please note: the no wave music I have chosen does not fall in this category. Listen every Thursday at 9PM on 98.9fm KFMG-LP Des Moines and at 7PM...

Night Listeners - Tonight is the conclusion of my interview with Adam Groves (The PeePees, Brazil, Wheel & the Fence, & Deerslayer). He talks about passing the guard and gets candid about the early days with William Elliot Whitmore. I play another handful of tunes from Cedar Rapids including all of Adam's bands plus a solo project from Adam Caffrey who is known for his work in The Horrors and CR Dicks. Tune in every Thursday from 7PM to 8PM on KCOE - Coe College Cedar Rapids & from 9PM to 10PM on 98.9FM KFMG-LP Des Moines. If you miss the broadcast you can check out the archives on iTunes:  https://apple.co/2MzdH5e Backdoor Betty - "Mom Gave Me An F" / Demo 2002 (Cedar Rapids) Jonestown 4 - "Love You To Death" / Jonestown 4 (Cedar Rapids) North to Alaska - "Song For Indecision" / Event. Reset (Cedar Rapids) The Obsolete Andrew Joseph Caffrey - "No String" / The Obsolete Andrew Joseph Caffrey (Cedar Rapids) DB ...

Night listeners - Tonight I played part one of my interview with former Cedar Rapids native Adam Groves. He played bass and sang in the PeePee's, Wheel and the Fence, and Brazil. He is also the artist behind one of my favorite musical acts, Deerslayer. He currently resides in Singapore so when I recorded him it was 11AM CST but it was 11PM Singapore time. The quality is a little rough at times as I was capturing it from my iphone. I did my best to clean it up but there is a lot of background noise. He talks about the Cedar Rapids music scene from 1996 through 2006. Lots of incite from his days with The PeePees, Brazil, and of course Deerslayer. - Kristian #trustkristianday Wheel and the Fence - "Emperor Moth" / Wheel and the Fence (Cedar Rapids) The PeePees - "American Tourister" / How We Do It In Ghetto Land (Cedar Rapids) Brazil - "Church" / Love Lost Her Job Today (Cedar Rapids) The Horrors - "Every Inch Of My Love" / Split wi...

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 is our first road trip show! 90% of this weeks episode was recorded while driving in a minivan to Madison, WI with Dylan Sires (of the band Sires). We blast through a lot of tunes originating from the Cedar Valley, something I haven't done in a while. Bare with us, the sound quality is questionable at times because... we are in a minivan. If you miss the live show on either KFMG Des Moines or KCOE Coe College, be sure to check out the archives on  iTunes . Kristian #trustkristianday Captain Three Leg - "Kool Aid & Crayons" /  Split with Mean Dave  (Ottumwa) Brooke Straus - "Pair of Dice" /  Acid Casual  (Iowa City) Twins - "Take That Gurl" /  Square America  (Waterloo) Miracles of God - "Don't Try" /  O What a Wonderful Day  (Iowa City) The Beat Strings - "In the Night" /  Fang In Rain  (Waterloo) Sioux City Pete & The Beggers - "Blues on the Northern Plains" /  8 Songs  (Si...