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. 2D AGO

    Iowa Basement Tapes #389 03-12-2026 GUEST HOST: Ben Smasher

    Night Listeners - I am off to SXSW so Ben Smasher is taking the wheel. He literally pulled together a playlist that I would never dream of. Give him a follow on his respected IG Accounts: @bensmasher and @brainsmasher You a should also checkout his Youtube Channel: Brainsmasher666 These Days - "Only What You Need" (Iowa City) Al's Untouchables - "Stick Around" (Cedar Rapids) Brillo & The Firebirds - "Someplace to Hide" (Keokuk) Shy Strangers - "Skeletal Emotions" (Iowa City) Sender Receiver - "The Human Torch Was Denied a Bank Loan" (Knoxville) Moss Gatherer - "Dustin Hoffman" (Iowa City) Vulcan - "No Name" (Spencer) Penny Peach - "I Don't Wanna" (Iowa City) The Swingin' Teens - "White Trash" (Iowa City) West Minist'r - "Bright Lights Windy City" (Fort Dodge) Thisworldisnotkind - "Traitors" (Iowa City) The Dogs - "Horror House Blues" (Decorah) Wally Shoop & The Zombies - "Okoboji" (Spirit Lake) 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

  2. MAR 6

    Iowa Basement Tapes #388 03-05-2026

    Night Listeners - We got a banger of a show tonight with some unearthed recordings from Fly Mexican Airlines and Mannequin Molesters. Plus a bunch weird electronic stuff that I know you crust dudes like. 7-Inch Wave - "Modern Plan" / Load Love Emulator (Ames) Otros Outros - "Free Punch" / Otros Outros (Iowa City) Dirty Sweats - "I Count the Tears" / If It Breaks I'm F****d (Dubuque) Skabortionsists - "Skabortionists Theme" / Skabortionists (Waverly) Fly Mexican Airlines - "Your Mom Has a Nut Sack" / FMA (Davenport) The Vahnevants - "Say It" / Stoned Together (Des Moines) Moscow Puzzles - "Unknown Fixed Object" / Vast Space of the Interior (Iowa City) Pareidolia - "Red Auditorium" / Part 3 - 3D (Des Moines) Wet Hair - "The Garden Room" / In Vogue Spirit (Iowa City) Mannequin Molesters - "New Direction" / Boom Box Demos (Bettendorf) Mr. Softheart - "Laughing at the Future" / Magdalene in Crisis (Cedar Falls) redbear - "displaces" / pour vous (Marshalltown) Keepers of the Carpet - "Holy Moly!" /15 Year Deluxe Version (Ames) Skin of Earth - "Horsethief" / Skin of Earth (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

    59 min

  3. FEB 27

    Iowa Basement Tapes #387 02-16-2026

    Night Listeners - After two weeks of talking shows we are back to our regular show. We are packed with tunes from doom kings Lord Green, Melting Human Trash and Zenith. Plus new music from Brandon Loper AKA Tomb Wizard. Lord Green - "Flying" / Higher Than God (Davenport) Why Bother? - "Descension" / Hey, At Least You're Not Me (Mason City) G.L.U.E - "Colored Ghosts" / pray for us in the hour of our death (Sioux City) Anesthesia - "Disgrace" / Pain is Inevitable, Misery is Optional (Council Bluffs) Melting Human Trash - "Death Always Twins" / Weedian - Trip to Nebraska and Iowa (Dubuque) Ben Poppen - "Praise God From Whom All Blessing Flow" / Pastoral (Des Moines) Grave of Silent Dreams - "Only the Dead Know" / Demo (Waterloo) When Bitter Spring Sleeps - "To Lie Forever Dreaming Beneath the Meadowstone" (Cedar Rapids) Fate - "Where am I going?" / Another Day Alone in My Thoughts (Independence) Plastic #9 - "Out On Bail" / Fountain of Youth Vol II (Iowa City) Pull Aparts - "Bonestorms" / Fountain of Youth Vol II (Iowa City) Zenith - "Pitiful" / Weedian - Trip to Nebraska and Iowa (?) 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

  4. FEB 20

    Iowa Basement Tapes #386 02-19-2026 GUEST: Woodrow Hall

    Night Listeners - Woodrow Hall is back with us talking all sorts of news from Frontal Assault, Festering Productions and the Iowa Metal Underground. We also talk about Black Sabbath for nearly six minutes. Frontal Assault - "Under Attack" (Cedar Rapids)Oroborus - "Caranal Apathy" / Oroborus (Des Moines)Starved - "Throes of Suffering" (Cedar Rapids)The Value of Human Life - "Visitors" / Visitors (Cedar Valley)12 Gauge Autopsy - "Carousel of Flesh" (Quad Cities)Diezeleater - "No Couth" / Couthless Aggression (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

    1 hr

  5. FEB 13

    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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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
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About

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

Information

  • Creator
    Kristian Day
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    383
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Kristian Day Media, LLC
  • Show Website
    Iowa Basement Tapes

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