Iowa Basement Tapes

Night Listeners - Four hundred episodes. Some of you have gotten married, had kids and maybe a divorce or two. I have produced and recorded four hundred episodes of Iowa Basement Tapes. Tonight I play sort of a greatest hits tonight. Lots of classic bangers from across the state. A big thank you to all of our listeners both on the radio and the podcast.

Night Listeners - We got a bunch of Ed Nehring tunes tonight because the Savage Little Suckers are playing this Saturday at Gabes in Iowa City! So we got Red Throb and Savage Little Suckers in the mix. Plus some unheard (on this show) VidaBlue and Brazil tunes. We also got an old direct-to-tape William Elliot Whitmore demo.

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.

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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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

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.

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.