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. 19h ago

    Iowa Basement Tapes #402 07-02-2026 Revisiting All Six Iowa Compilations

    Night Listeners - Tonight we explore one of my favorite compilation series, The Iowa Compilation Volumes 1-6. I have played Vol 1 and 2 multiple times on this show but anything after that has been sparse. This series was the launching point for many music fans in Iowa. Super important to the state's history. The Tape-Beatles - "Ads Become the News" / It's Another Iowa Compilation... Uncharted Territories (Iowa City) House of Large Sizes - "One and Half a Half on a Hill" / The Iowa Compilation Vol. 1 (Cedar Falls) Clockwerk Orange - "You Can't Go Home" / Iowa Compilation Vol 5. A Few Works After Drink (?) The Masque - "House on the Hill" / Iowa Compilation Vol. 3 Third Times a Charm (Ames) Otis - "Cranston" / Iowa Compilation Vol. 5 A Few Works After Drink (Davenport) Full Fathom Five - "Why Their Faces are so Worn" / The Iowa Compilation Vol. 1 (Iowa City) Sludgeplow - "Domination" / Iowa Compilation Vol . 4 Golden Memories and Other Disasters (Cedar Rapids) The Punishment Club - "Getting too Round" / It's Another Iowa Compilation... Uncharted Territories (Des Moines) Junk Poet - "Low" / Iowa Compilation Vol. 6 (Des Moines) Cursing Birds - "Popey Sally" / The Iowa Compilation Vol. 1 (Iowa City) Movable Feast - "End of the World" / It's Another Iowa Compilation... Uncharted Territories (Des Moines) Squidboy - "Ulmer" / Iowa Compilation Vol 5. A Few Works After Drink (Des Moines) The Hollowmen - "Never Ending Ceiling / The Iowa Compilation Vol. 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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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. Jun 26

    Iowa Basement Tapes #401 06-25-2026

    Night Listeners- I am on my second week down in the French Caribbean. Last week I recorded from Turks & Caicos. Since then I have been to Guadeloupe and now I am in Dominica. It's tropical and rains every half hour.  We got a new tune from Phantom Lightkeeper, Justin Beahm's doom surf rock project that had its debut album last year with its follow up coming out in August. Davenport Junior Theater - "Summer Fun" (Quad Cities) Joretta Oaks - 'High School" / Ichirus Falls (Ottumwa) Phantom Lightkeeper - "Hidden Mother" / Four Days at the Precipice (Cedar Rapids) Splayed Innards - "Abe Lincoln Get His Chance" / Splayed Innards (Iowa City) The Afterdarks - "No Good" / Rock N Roll is Dead (Quad Cities) In Loving Memory - "A Gentler Sun" / A Gentler Sun (Des Moines) Atomic Opera - "Kamikaze" / Demo 1985 (Des Moines) Why Bother? - "Still Remain - Sleep Paralysis" / Case Studies (Mason City) Holy Vestige - " Skeleton Key" / Holy Vestige (Marshalltown) Winterwraith - "Dark Elves of the Soulless Winter" / Magic from an Ancient Time (Waterloo) Tapwater Shrimp - "Toodaloo" / Just Demo (Sioux City) Preacher Gone to Texas - "Sorrows for the Wounded" / Choice Vs Chance (Quad Cities) NIAN - "Trust Me" / 5 Song Demo (Marshalltown) Skin of Earth - "Ghengis Kong" / The Des Moines 4 Track Compilation (Des Moines) Ten Grand - "Now You Got What I Got" / This is the Way to Rule (Iowa City) 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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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

  3. Jun 19

    Iowa Basement Tapes #400 06-18-2026

    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. The Tanks - "24 Hour Revenge Fantasy" / Epic Load (Iowa City) The Pee Pees - "American Tourister" / How We Do It In Ghetto Land (Cedar Rapids) Die Mutts - " Old Videos" / Die Mutts (Des Moines) Captain Three Leg - "Esteban" / Split with Short Order (Ottumwa) Captain Three Leg - "Hardcore Instruction" / Split with Short Order (Ottumwa) Traffic Death - "The Wild" / Don't Be A Projectile (Des Moines) Deep Fried Embryo - "Donnie of the Dead" / Split with Bloody Rectum (McGregor) When Bitter Spring Sleeps - "Astral Blood" / Star Thrown (Cedar Rapids) Sexy Cash - "Theatre of War" (Sioux City) Nightrazor - "Just One More Breath" (Des Moines) Chemical Buffet - "Are They Recording?" / 30 Years Of Obscurity 1993 -2023 Vol 1 (Des Moines) Tomb Wizard - "Moonless" / The Lich Chamber (Waterloo) MUSICIAN - "Cuckoo Kachoo" / As Trees Meet The Ridgeline (Des Moines) CR Dicks - "Black Girlfriend" / Dick Moves (Cedar Rapids) Ill Omen - "The Cynic Soul Ripper" (Cedar Rapids) The Ballet - "The UAW Hall" / We Were Wild Buffalo (Quad Cities) Brazil - "Eyelights" / Love Lost Their Job Today (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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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. Jun 5

    Iowa Basement Tapes #399 06-04-2026 GUEST: Iowa Metal Underground

    Night Listeners -  Byron and Woodrow from Iowa Metal Underground on the show talking about the upcoming IMU Fest happening August 14th and 15th in Cedar Rapids. They also go into the upcoming releases from Festering Productions.   Ill Omen - "Reconfigured Remains" (Cedar Rapids) Ophidian Memory - "Resurrected Primordials" / Serephim (Des Moines) Toxic Hell - "Brutal Bastions" / Toxic Hell (Cedar Rapids) 12 Gauge Autopsy - "Toe-Tag" / All Pigs Get Slaughtered (Quad Cities) Phantom Threat - "The Debutante" (Quad Cities) Frontal Assault - "Plague of the Mind" / Plague of the Mind (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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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

  5. May 29

    Iowa Basement Tapes #398 05-28-2026

    Night Listeners- We are back with a banger of show. Nothing new this week except some serious rippers from east to west. The Agrestix - "Follow Me to Hell" / Welcome to Hell (Davenport) Bovinophobic Bile Puddle - "Decompose Me" / BBP (Iowa City) The Tanks - "Dandruff Geniuses" / Skipping Pills (Iowa City) If I Could Just Get Some Sleep - "Do It" / Dead Nerves, Numb Hands (Dubuque) Running Man - "Second Skin" / Running Man (Quad Cities) Swing by Seven - "The First Taste" / Tora Tora Torrence (Sioux City) Precious - "I Pray, I Fast, I Await Your Guidance - Months of Isolation" / He Has Abandoned Us (Iowa City) Tomb Wizard - "Asleep in Twilight's Coffin" / Asleep in Twilight's Coffin (Waterloo) Why Bother? - "Weird World" / A Year of Mutations (Mason City) The Siouxer Rats - "Dr. Zaius" / Rat-tle and Shake with the Siouxer Rats (Sioux City) Traffic Death - "Don't Be a Projectile" / Don't Be a Projectile (Des Moines) Fungal Mass -"Butchered" / Psychedelic Poison (Wilton) Miasma - "Make Your Mark Claim Your Land and Keep It" / Calligraphy in Blood (Cedar Rapids) Flesh and Blood - "Touch of Doom" / Scary Noises (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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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

  6. May 22

    Iowa Basement Tapes #397 05-21-2026 GUEST: Station Manager Gary Monte

    Night Listeners- Tonight I have a very special guest, the KFMG station manager, Gary Monte. If it wasn't for Gary, Iowa Basement Tapes would never had happened. I am the type of person who needs motivation sometimes and he got the show green lit for the radio back in 2018. On June 30th, 2026, he will be retiring. We play his Iowa playlist and talk about his history with Iowa radio. House of Large Sizes - "Heat Miser" / Heat Miser (Cedar Falls) House of Large Sizes - "North  Cedar" / My Ass-Kicking Life (Cedar Falls) Tripmaster Monkey - "Valium" / Goodbye Race (Quad Cities) Brother Trucker - "Friday Night Fight" (Des Moines) Blue Band, Bob Dorr, Molly Nova - "Baby Please Don't Go" / Deal Again (Cedar Falls) Horny Geniuses - "Mother Horta" / Proper Sound Rewound (Iowa City) 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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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. May 15

    Iowa Basement Tapes #396 05-14-2026

    Night Listeners - Packed show with lots of new bands (or at least new to me). A big shout out to the Nu World Mutants for sending me a copy of their new record. It absolutely rules and we drop one of the songs tonight. The Lime Wires -"Mirror Facing Mirrors" (Mason City) Nu World Mutants - "(No More Planes to) Karachi" / The World is Our Bowling Ball (Burlington) Clifford Hoyt - "The Chandelier Falls...Again" / Split A.M. (Dubuque) Pink Flag - "Signal Fire" / In Chains EP (Des Moines) Catholic Werewolves - "Cowrkr" / You're Gonna Miss Everything and Die Angry (Davenport) Ophidian Memory - "Hunger of Your Deceased Deity" (Des Moines) Chemical Buffet - "Praise be to Zardoz" / Far-Out Scraps (Des Moines) Mim Jiller - "Bleu Cheese" / Sove Longs EP (Iowa City) Chrash - "Good Old Fashion News" / 2017 The Music (Quad Cities) Safety Second -"Don't Know" / Sick Tired (Marshalltown) happy thoughts - "my arms are a sawdust factory" / stab stab revolution (Des Moines) Followed by Ghosts - "Clear Blue Sky" / The Entire City was Silent (?) Space Burial - "User Friendly" / Meeting the Natives (Dubuque) 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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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. May 8

    Iowa Basement Tapes #395 05-07-2026

    Night Listeners - Tonight's show is PACKED with all sorts of new material. Six bands/projects making their show debut. New tune from God's Hand, thisworlsisnotkind and Frontal Assault.  Sexy Cash - "Do You Want To Dance?" (Sioux City) Foxpelt - "Foxpelt Conniption" (Sioux City) Bat Problem - "Dance" / Can't Pass By (Des Moines) Lipstick Homicide - "Good Times" / The Stone of Opportunity (Iowa City) God's Hand - "Police Lorry" / Police Lorry 7" (Iowa City) Lotus Light - "Sour Blue" / The Passing of Time (Dubuque) Mike Allen - "Remarkable Unremarkable" / MN (?) Winterwraith - "Magic from an Ancient Time" / Magic from an Ancient Time (Waterloo) Archeress - "VI - (I Wake Up) / ♏︎ (?) thisworldisnotkind - "I Think we are going to have to kill this guy, Steven" / grief (Iowa City) Stars Hollow - "Casper" / Kind of Hoping (Des Moines) Psyop - "Outskirts" / (Iowa City) Why Bother - "Speck's Lament" / You Are Part Of The Experiment (Mason City) Frontal Assault - "Working Man" / Plague of the Mind (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 MoinesFridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa CityWednesdays 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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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

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  • Creator
    Kristian Day
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    396
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Kristian Day Media, LLC
  • Show Website
    Iowa Basement Tapes

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