Iowa Basement Tapes

Kristian Day
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One hour radio program of Iowa's history in the DIY music scene hosted by Kristian Day. The show can also be heard on: Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines Fridays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City Fridays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWIC - Decorah Podcast archives go live Thursdays at 10PM CST. #trustkristianday #madeiniowa

  1. 5D AGO

    Iowa Basement Tapes #385 02-12-2026 GUEST: Jason of Deep Fried Embryo

    Night Listeners - We have been talking about this interview for almost a year. Jason of Deep Fried Embryo is on the show. We recorded this episode in his town of McGregor, Iowa located deep in the Driftless region. Deep Fried Embryo is about to celebrate twenty years this April. We talk about house shows in Harpers Ferry, Milwaukee Metal Fest and the history of Iowa's oldest noisecore band. Deep Fried Embryo - "Donnie of the Dead" / split with Bloody Rectum (McGregor)Detachment - "Severed from Flesh" / Suspended in Stone (Cedar Rapids)Sadistic Kids - "Tore Up" / Curiosity Killed Those Kids (Cedar Rapids)Black Market Fetus - "Stagnation" / Discography (Des Moines)BOAR - "logitech" / Forever (Dubuque)Mummifier - "Curse of the Pharaoh" / Basic Mummification Procedure (Ottumwa)  Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: Instagram Follow 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e

    1h 1m

  2. FEB 6

    Iowa Basement Tapes #384 02-05-2026

    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. Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: Instagram Follow 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e

    59 min

  3. JAN 30

    Iowa Basement Tapes #383 01-29-2026

    Night Listeners - We go a little hard tonight breaking into Satan's Almighty Penis and raging to a Sex Funeral.    Genital Hercules - "Theme from Cheers" / Live from Gabes 5-22-2005 (Cedar Rapids)BBP - "Decompose Me" / BBP (Iowa City)Satan's Almighty Penis - "Sacrifyx" / Thy Foulness Cum (Cedar Rapids)Goldblums - "No Fun" / Heels (Des Moines)Citrus Boy - "Skunk n Chicks" / ...Not Nirvana  (Ottumwa)Ill Omen - "Tread" / March of Decay (Cedar Rapids)Nightrazor - "Jackhammer (Jesus Gonna Come)" (Des Moines)I Like You Go Home - "Black Forest Runway" / This is for Me to Know and You to Never Find Out (Dubuque)Sex Funeral - "Away" / Eradicator (Dubuque)Dredge - "Paths of Great Resistance" / Ashbreathers (Dubuque)Stick Dog - 'Betrayal" / Human (Iowa City)The Agrestix - "Psychotic and Insane" / On The Street (Davenport)Twin Wizad - "Ghostwriter" / Glacial Gods (Burlington) Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: Instagram Follow 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e

    1h 1m

  4. JAN 23

    Iowa Basement Tapes #382 01-22-2026

    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.   Captain Three Leg - "How Much Is That Meat?" / Split with Vanishing Cities (Ottumwa)Captain Three Leg - "Disturbing the Peace" / Split with Vanishing Cities (Ottumwa)Hott - "Never Wonder" / Guaranteed to Destroy (Iowa City)Fork Knife Spoon - "All Empires Fall" / All Empires Fall (Quad Cities)Meth and Goats - "Dope Tantrum" / Mini CDr Demo (Quad Cities)Mr. Blanding's Dreamhouse / A Day In the Air #13 (Iowa City)Lipstick Homicide - "What I am Searching For" / Out Utero (Iowa City)Musician - "Cuckkoo Kachoo" / Split with Into the Cove (Waterloo)Harm - "Steam Skin Vitriol" / Obduro Singultus (Cedar Rapids)The Organ - "Quality Time With Jesus" / A Day In the Air #13 (Quad Cities)Evil Geniuses - " Small Town Cops" / Let Us Never Speak of This Again (Des Moines)Conniption Fit - "Movin On" / A Day In the Air #13 (Ames)Roze -"Dead Men Get No Tales" / Shine A Light (Des Moines)Telekinetic Yeti - "Ancient Nug" / Primordial (Dubuque)When Bitter Spring Sleeps - "The Sky Has Not Always Been This Way"  / Coven of Wolves (Cedar Rapids) Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: Instagram Follow 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e

    1 hr

  5. JAN 16

    Iowa Basement Tapes #381 01-15-2026

    Night Listeners - We are back! Sorry about last week I was down in Texas on a documentary shoot with my hands completely tied up. But I brought a killer show for you all tonight. Lots of first time plays and new music from Phantom Lightkeeper and When Bitter Spring Sleeps. Schmoz - "Paul Bearer" / Tales EP (Sioux City)happy thoughts - "my arms are a sawdust factory" / stab stab revolution (Des Moines)River City Rejects - "1891" / River City Rejects (Omaha)Phantom Lightkeeper - "Hidden Mother" (Cedar Rapids)In Loving Memory - "Great Day That Dawns" / A Gentler Sun (Des Moines)Drednex - "Army, Inc" / Co-Op (Cedar Falls)Miasma - "I Need Some Pain Killers Pronto!" / Calligraphy in Blood (Cedar Rapids)Vitalith - "Sooner than Expected, Night Falls" / A Short Walk Home (Waterloo)When Bitter Spring Sleeps - "Haunted by the Death of Sanity" (Cedar Rapids)North to Alaska - "A Move to Vancouver" / Everything Right Now (Cedar Rapids)Zuul - "No Friend of Mine" / Zuul (Iowa City)Skin of Earth - "Auto Icon" / notebook (Des Moines)Running Man  - "In the Shadows" / Running Man (Quad Cities)Anchoress - "rain on skin" / someone needs to light the way (Ames) Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: Instagram Follow 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e

    1h 1m

  6. JAN 2

    Iowa Basement Tapes #380 01-01-2026 HAPPY NEW YEAR!

    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: Instagram Follow 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e

    1h 1m

  7. 12/26/2025

    Iowa Basement Tapes #379 12-25-2025 GUEST: Jayson Mudderman of Fate and Casket

    Night Listeners - Merry Christmas and tonight we are celebrating Christmas the only way Iowa Basement Tapes knows how to do, we are going to play black metal. We have a guest tonight, Jayson Mudderman of Fate and Casket. We play his Iowa playlist of black metal oddities and we have a special holiday message from Captain Three Leg. Be sure to also check out the new Iowa Basement Tapes Instagram. Captain Three Leg - "A Captain's Christmas" (Ottumwa)Fate - "Heaven is Black" / Time I Never Had (Independence)Dryad - "Hadal" / The Abyssal Plain (Iowa City)Dryad - "Pompeii Worm" / The Abyssal Plain (Iowa City)Nethervoid - "Empty Field Eloquence" / In the Swarms of Godless Wrath (Dubuque)Envenom Ascension - "Thirty Pieces of Silver" / Murkland (Iowa City)Sept of Memnon - "Ego-död (As The Temple Burns)" / As The Temple Burns EP (Davenport) Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: Instagram Follow 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e

    1h 1m

  8. 12/19/2025

    Iowa Basement Tapes #378 12-18-2025 GUEST: Joel Sires

    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. Kiwi Pizza - "Mary Ann" (Cedar Falls)Run Dog - "The Big Room" / The Big Room (Waverly)Drink Quicklies - "Tommy Two Necks" / Acceptable Receptacle (Des Moines)Jordan Sellergren - "Stupid T-Shirt" / Banner Year (Iowa City)The Beat Strings - "Before the Light" / Love Lust Wonder (Marshalltown)Dylan Sires - "Around You" / Long Over (Waterloo) Follow Iowa Basement Tapes on: Instagram Follow 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 MoinesWednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux CityWednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji If you miss the show please subscribe to the broadcast archives: https://apple.co/2MzdH5e

    1h 2m
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One hour radio program of Iowa's history in the DIY music scene hosted by Kristian Day. The show can also be heard on: Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM KFMG - Des Moines Fridays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City Fridays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji Saturdays at 8PM on 1240AM KWIC - Decorah Podcast archives go live Thursdays at 10PM CST. #trustkristianday #madeiniowa

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  • Creator
    Kristian Day
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    379
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Kristian Day Media, LLC
  • Show Website
    Iowa Basement Tapes