Iowa Basement Tapes

Night Listeners - March is just about over and I am up in Dubuque walking around without a jacket... freedom from the winter's enslavement is near! Tonight I have some weird tunes and some new tunes. The new tunes include Druids from Des Moines and Cockroach Dominion from Cedar Rapids. The weird tunes include the A side from a 1969 tribute record to the late sports radio announcer Bill Sass from WMT AM radio Cedar Rapids (super random I know). 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 In Memory of Bills Sass - Side A (Cedar Rap...

Night Listeners - Tonight I am recording my show from the deepest part of Texas. I am in the city of Marfa. If you don't know about it you should give it a Google. I also spent some time at SXSW last week which was O.K. I am not party guy so I don't care about anything past the tacos. This week's playlist was carefully planned to not include as many Des Moines acts because I tend to focus on them a lot. Some first timers tonight: She Swings She Sways, Black Death Jet and Wet Hair. I am pretty sure Black Death Jet is only current band of the three. 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 ...

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 recorded this week's show in North Hollywood, California and it is rainy AF. I got tunes tonight from Alex Body, The Ruralists and Space Burial. It's a doom pop dance party if I do say so myself. 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 - "Rain" / No Class Project (Cedar Falls) The Tanks - "Natural Man Vs Unnatural Boy" / Iowa City Weird Scene Comp. (Iowa City) Red Throb - "My Gun" / Bend Over Here Comes... (Iowa City) Utopia Park - "Skulls" / Utopia Park (Fairfield) Alex Body - "The Light in the Mirror" / Iowa City Weird Scene Comp. (Iowa City) The Ruralists - "1,000 Pines" / Birth of Birds (Sioux City)...

Nigh Listeners - Our final February show of 2019 is upon us! This cold has got me super bummed so I am escaping to Los Angeles and will be producing the show in North Hollywood. I might even have some guests on too. Tonight I got some tunes from as far back as 1966 and as recent as January of this year. 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 - "Iowa" / Co-op Master (Cedar Falls) Brooks Strause - "Golden Dawn" / Acid Casual (Iowa City) Jaundiced - "In an Eager Way" / Jaundiced (Des Moines) Meth and Goats - "Art Corpse" / Meth and Goats Tour Demo (Quad Cities) Huxley Maxwell - "Ice-Nine" excerpt / Shadow 1996 (Des Moines) Riff Worm - "Lucid ...

Night Listeners Finally, the interview with Luke Belknap (Goldblums / Huxley Maxwell / Person Whale / The Beaches / Austrinaut / Vivacious Bean Dip) has happened. He joins us in the KFMG studios in Des Moines with my engineer/co-host studio manager Gary Monte. Belknap talks about all the projects he is in and some of the primitive recording techniques used on his records. He shares with us his playlist of Iowa weirdos (some we've played and some we haven't). I also found a psychedelic rock band out of Fort Dodge from 1972 called West Minist'r. 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 Hollowmen - "Spite" /  Pink Quartz Sun Blasting (Des Moines) West Minist'r - "My Life" /...

Night Listeners - Happy Valentines Day! I hope you all enjoyed my note from Harry Warden at the beginning of the show. Tonight I popped in a few loves songs from Captain Three Leg, Elizabeth Moen, and well let's call the track from Three Finger Better Betty a love song too (it's probably not a love song for another a human). First time jams tonight from TV Cop out of Ottumwa. They are straight out of the pop punk scene and they remind me a lot of 90s Alkaline Trio or Offspring. The Elizabeth Moen song "Best I Can Do" reminds me a lot of the music heard in the David Lynch film, Wild At Heart. I also got a song off of the second or third When Bitter Spring Sleeps record, Coven Of Wolves. The nature sounds you hear on the track were recorded at Wapsipinicon River Environmental Education Center which is over on the Scott County side of Iowa. Hear us every Thursday at 9PM on  98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines  &  KCOE - Coe College Cedar Rapids . You can now hear us eve...