Iowa Basement Tapes – Details, episodes & analysis

Night Listeners -

Last show for the dog days of summer so we are frying eggs on the cement tonight. Debut play from The Least Worst out of Ottumwa, hardcore classics from Rue Morgue and Breakdance PLUS a shoegaze dream from Blist Her.

1. The Least Worst - "Machetes Ready" / First Worst (Ottumwa)
2. The Law - "Hole in My Heart" / King Size Cigarette (Des Moines)
3. Skamikazies - "8000 Watts" / Behold (Quad Cities)
4. The Brown Note - "Set Sail" / Better Than Music (Cedar Rapids)
5. The Ballet - "A Song to Bring Ya Home" / We Were Wild Buffalo (Quad Cities)
6. The Obsolete Andrew Joseph Caffrey - "My Blue Eyed Baby (is a Black Eyed Baby Now" / The Obsolete Andrew Joseph Caffrey (Cedar Rapids)
7. Centaur Noir - "Life is a Mystery" / Memoirs II (Quad Cities)
8. Blist Her - "TV Guide to Life" (Burlington)
9. Voorhees - "Dreams" (Keokuk)
10. Verb the Noun - "Bepis" / Verb the Noun (Sioux City)
11. Wax Cannon - "Thanks for Registering Your Vehicle" /  Life-sized Animals Walking Around (Iowa City)
12. Breakdance - "Bruce Bruce" / Mistaken Grave (Des Moines)
13. Rue Morgue - "Elect Archie Brooks" / Demo (Des Moines)
14. Safety Second - "Persuasion" / Four Elements (Marshalltown)
15. Twin Wizard - "Apothecary" / Glacial Gods (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
Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
Wednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux City
Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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Night Listeners-

PACKED PACKED PACKED show tonight. First time plays from Soup Riot!, The Blendours, and Chrash. We are also slowing entering spooky season so I sneak in a track from X-Ray Mary.

1. Soup Riot! - "Slippery Slope" / Kick Me! (Iowa City)
2. Slut River - "Off Whie" / Off White (Iowa City)
3. The Blendours - "Cut My Hair" / Department of Meteors (Des Moines)
4. X-Ray Mary - "Skull of Elvis" / Manzilla (Ottumwa)
5. Xerox - "Sunken In" / Xerox EP (Iowa City)
6. Sorry Excuse - "I love you" (Mason City)
7. Unisex - "Ceiling Fan Massacre" / Hold Your Breath and then Some (Ottumwa)
8. Underlords of the Overworld - " Laundromat of Madness" / Underlords of the Overworld  (Des Moines)
9. Centaur Noir - "Scenery" / Good Loving Humans (Quad Cities)
10. Melty Smiler feat. Extravision - "Road Unravels" (Des Moines)
11. Blist Her - "Lines (Vaporgaze .01)" / Lines The Vapor Mixes (Burlington)
12. E H I - "Haze" / A Fear of Staircases (Des Moines)
13. Strong Like Bear - "Infested" / In the Future Only the Rich will Live Forever (Ames)
14. Lemming - "Hey Spacey" / AIMS Sampler (Ames)
15. Supersonic Piss - "Choke Yourself Awake" / Tibs Picks - Iowa City Weirdo Scene Comp (Iowa City)
16. Chrash - "Billionaire Breeding Ground" / 2017 The Music (Quad Cities)
17. Megapunch - "Big Woods" / Skyward (Dubuque)
18. Michael Duede - "Core Killer" / Restrict (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
Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
Wednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux City
Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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Night Listeners -

The days are long and hot. The humidity is making mullet on my head. Tonight brand new stuff from BBP and Everything Had Teeth! We also revisit the Cupboards Zine Issue 3 Comp.

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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
Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
Wednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux City
Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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Night Listeners -

You may have noticed all the new uploads to the Bandcamp Archive from mid-90s Iowa City. Mike Epting of Slimtones has generously shared all sorts of material with us and this week he is on the show talking about his years in the Iowa music scene.

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 and every Friday at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT – Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI – Okoboji. If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e Find me on twitter @kristianmday #trustkristianday

1. Slimtones - "Yellow Green" / Demo  (Iowa City)
2. Boxboy - "Porch Swing" / Death of Your Culture Compilation (Iowa City)
3. Randy Ike - "War Room" / Midwest Bear - Worshiping Support Group (Iowa City)
4. Slimtones - "Out of Count Range" / Herd Mentality Compilation (Iowa City)
5. Bixby - "Like You But Fatter" / No Sweat Exercise (Iowa City)
6. Ambush #5 - "Lullabye" / Minstrel Recordings (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
Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
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

Night Listeners -

Druids sit in live at the KFMG studios in downtown Des Moines. We talk about their new record Shadow Work, their history as a band, and we play their Iowa playlist. Check out their record release party on July 29th at Woolys with The Curse of Hail,  Gorge, and D.O.S.E.

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 and every Friday at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT – Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI – Okoboji. If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e Find me on twitter @kristianmday #trustkristianday

1. Druids - "Ide's Koan" / Shadow Work (Des Moines)
2. Greg Wheeler & The Poly Mall Cops - "Cross You Out" / Room (Des Moines)
3. Traffic Death - "Consumed by Fire" / Dead End (Des Moines)
4. Blood Spell - "Mountain" / Blood Spell (Des Moines)
5. Glass Ox - "Rogue Sons" (Des Moines)
6. Druids - "Dance of Skulls" / Shadow Work (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
Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
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

Night Listeners -

Lots of Sioux City love tonight including jams by Swing by Seven, Tapwater Shrimp, and Distorted Fantasy. Plus first time plays by Ice Hockey (Quad Cities), Ben Driscoll (Cedar Rapids), Big Sky (Waterloo), and Take Control (Cedar Falls).

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 and every Friday at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT – Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI – Okoboji. If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e Find me on twitter @kristianmday #trustkristianday

1. Ice Hockey - "Collapse" / A Brief History Of Time (Quad Cities)
2. Ben Driscoll - "Unseen Danger" / Unseen Danger (Cedar Rapids)
3. Big Sky - "Part One: Longing" / Barely Awake (Waterloo)
4. Swing by Seven - "I'd Rather Be In Modesto" / Swing By Seven (Sioux City)
5. Tapwater Shrimp - "Knife Game" / Knife Game EP (Sioux City)
6. Mike Vallely & The Complete Disaster - "Too Much Talk" / The Best Of The Best (Des Moines)
7. Penny Peach - "Bangs" / Brain Gamez (Iowa City)
8. Distorted Fantasy - "Forgotten Dawn" / 7 8-16 Fooj (-) Negative (Sioux City)
9. Take Control - "Tides" / Tides (Cedar Falls)
10. Captain Three Leg - "Passive Aggressor" / Split with Beartrap (Ottumwa)
11. Captain Three Leg - "Backwards Crusade" / Split with Beartrap (Ottumwa)
12. Captain Three Leg - "Console Junkie" / Split with Beartrap (Ottumwa)
13. Captain Three Leg - "Group Home Stormfront" / Split with Beartrap (Ottumwa)
14. Grand Old Lady - "1 Slow, 2 Fast, 3 Furious" / Fart Solo (Ottumwa)
15. When Bitter Spring Sleeps - "Lost Admist This Moonlight Venture" / Star Thrown (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
Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
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

Night Listeners -

Four years have officially gone by and I am still here playing the loudest music on public radio. Tonight tons of new material including Shamrock Shakes from Ames, Bixby from Iowa City, and Mike Vallely & The Complete Disaster from Des Moines. Even Barron Christian opens us up with a special message.

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 and every Friday at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT – Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI – Okoboji. If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e Find me on twitter @kristianmday #trustkristianday

1. Mike Vallely & The Complete Disaster - "The Best of the Best"  / The Best of the Best EP (Des Moines)
2. Emmy Strut - "No Taming the Wild" / Demo (Davenport)
3. Shamrock Shakes - "Back Hoe" / House of Jep EP (Ames)
4. Step Child - "The Dream" / The Prayer (Marshalltown)
5. Joretta Oaks - "High School" / Ichirus Falls (Ottumwa)
6. Shikimo - "Oracle" / Seasons (?)
7. Finally Some Action - "Geist" / Finally Some Action (Keokuk)
8. Bixby - "Fifth Eye" / No Sweat Exercise (Iowa City)
9. Ten Grand - "Hands of the Merch" / The Way To Rule (Iowa City)
10. Wolves in the Attic - "Last Call" / The Des Moines 4-Track Compilation (Des Moines)
11. Bouquet - "Tired Swing" / Cardinal (?)
12. Sioux City Pete & The Beggers - "John the Revelator" / Necro Blues (Sioux 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
Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
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

Night Listeners -

Last show for June! Next week is our 4 year anniversary. Wild to think. Tonight we jam some crust from Pent-Up Aggression, Spork, The Law, and Welfare Skate. Also a classic recording of Roze performing "Rubber Legs" from the cassette Liberty Angel.

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 and every Friday at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT – Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI – Okoboji. If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e Find me on twitter @kristianmday #trustkristianday

1. Davenport Junior Theatre - "Summer Fun" (Davenport)
2. Moveable Feast - "The End of the World - Live at the Laughing Iguana 1989" (Des Moines)
3. Pent-Up Aggression - "Badge of Harassment" / Defining the Problem (Des Moines)
4. Spork - "Electrigrabe" / Demo + 3 (Waterloo)
5. Ritual of Agony - "Mother Earth" / Half Past Dead (Des Moines)
6. The Law - "Beer Please, Not Politics" / Instant Party Demo (Des Moines)
7. Solid Attitude - "Slow Surf" / Die Bart! Die! (Iowa City)
8. Omens - "Ruin" / Demo (Des Moines)
9. Ax - "Infestation of Immorality" / Empire (Iowa City)
10. Lemmings - "Hey Spacey" / AIMS - Ames Independent Music Sampler (Ames)
11. Welfare Skate - "Hy-Vee Lifer" / C​.​H​.​S​.​G​.​I​.​T. Demo (Des Moines)
12. Captain Three Leg - "Temporary Technology" / 31 Uplifting Songs (Ottumwa)
13. Captain Three Leg - "Inflatable but Dateable" / 31 Uplifting Songs (Ottumwa)
14. Captain Three Leg - "From Demon to Demon" / 31 Uplifting Songs (Ottumwa)
15. Captain Three Leg - "Pets or Meat" / 31 Uplifting Songs (Ottumwa)
16. Captain Three Leg - "Sperm and Bullets" / 31 Uplifting Songs (Ottumwa)
17. The Blue Capybaras - "Rainy Halloween" / Squirrel Energy Now! (Iowa City)
18. Roze - "Rubber Legs" / Liberty Angel  (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
Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
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

Night Listeners -

I am broadcasting from Los Angeles the city of angels and human urine (or maybe it's the trees?). Tonight I bring you new material from Guilty of Treason, Moss Troll, and White Death.

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 and every Friday at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT – Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI – Okoboji. If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e Find me on twitter @kristianmday #trustkristianday

1. Goldblums - "Breathe The Dark" / Pay Window (Des Moines)
2. Mr. Bomb - "Devil's Best Friend" / Demo (Sioux City)
3. Plack Blague - "Heavy Leather!" / Heavy Leather! (Lincoln)
4. Bigby Woods - "Cliche" / Here Goes Nothing (Des Moines)
5. Guilty of Treason - "I, Versipellis"  (Waterloo)
6. Desalin - "Blood" / Cold New World (Cedar Rapids)
7. Moss Troll - "Oaken Stump Soup" / The Weeping Everglades (?)
8. Cursed Existence - "No Alpha" / Stiffed single (Des Moines)
9. White Death - "Kholopij Gorodok" / II (?)
10. Nightrazor - "nitropolis" / Bleeding Edge of Night (Des Moines)
11. The Multiple Cat - "The Boring Game" / Intricate Maps (Quad Cities)
12. The Main Sequence - "The Star of Courage" / The Main Sequence (Iowa City)
13. The Sleepover - "Suspect Device" / Pajamas in Public (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
Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
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

Night Listeners -

Lots of new music from: The Sleepover, Modern Life is War, Nebuleth and Mr. Softheart. This is a lot for one show my friends.

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 and every Friday at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT – Sioux City & 90.7FM KOJI – Okoboji. If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e Find me on twitter @kristianmday #trustkristianday

1. The Sleepover - "Me and the Boys" (Des Moines)
2. a is jump - "I Got Out" / Weird Nostalgia (Cedar Falls)
3. It Really Is - "Carnival of Time" / dis-con-ect live (Sioux City)
4. Goldblums - "Seven" / Goldblums (Des Moines)
5. Modern Life is War - "I Wanna Be Your Dog" / Tribulation Worksongs, Vol 3 (Marshalltown)
6. Mr. Softheart - "Caravaggio" / Caravaggio (Cedar Falls)
7. The River Monks - "Of The Land" / Home is The House (Des Moines)
8. Purplish - "Glisten" / so far down (Burlngton)
9. Nebuleth - "Formless Indifferent Emissions" / Split with Allfather (Cedar Rapids)
10. Zenith - "Crumbling Inward" / anti-extiction EP (Des Moines)
11. Druids - "Horus, Part 2" / Pray for Water (Des Moines)
12. Zap Tura - "Please" / Adaptasia (Des Moines)
13. Groom Lake Locusts - "B4" / Demo (Fort Madison)

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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
Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWLC - Decorah
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