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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.

1. The Law - "Beer Please Not Politics" / Music For No Man's Land (Des Moines)
2. The Slats - "Turbo" / Car (Cedar Rapids)
3. The Sly Strangers - "Heat Ray" / Iowa Compilation Volume 1 (Iowa City)
4. thisworldisnotkind - "Joy" / Death (Iowa City)
5. toolongdidntread - "So.Much.Foam" / Molt (Sioux City)
6. Sludgeplow - "Smile" / Survival is Killing, Another Useless Compilation (Cedar Rapids)
7. Burnout - "Superfuzz" / Thundertits (Iowa City)
8. Dylan Shiv and the Shanks - "Bleed" / Combat Punx (Independence)
9. Finally Some Action - "Thanks for the Ride" / Mode 7 (Keokuk)
10. Captain Three Leg - "Dear Death" / Dear Death (Ottumwa)
11. Purplish - "Dreaming" / Dreaming (Spencer)
12. Total Passover - "American Provincial" / Live at People's (Ames)
13. Casey Joe Collins - "Hungry Hollow" / The Life and Times of Casey Joe Collins (Des Moines)
14. Kerosene Circuit - "Put the Circuit" / Kerosene Circuit (Dubuque)
15. Moveable Feast -"End of the World" / Iowa Compilation Volume 1 (Des Moines)

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BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM  KFMG - Des Moines
Wednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux City
Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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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.

1. Captain Three Leg - "A Captain's Christmas" (Ottumwa)
2. Fate - "Heaven is Black" / Time I Never Had (Independence)
3. Dryad - "Hadal" / The Abyssal Plain (Iowa City)
4. Dryad - "Pompeii Worm" / The Abyssal Plain (Iowa City)
5. Nethervoid - "Empty Field Eloquence" / In the Swarms of Godless Wrath (Dubuque)
6. Envenom Ascension - "Thirty Pieces of Silver" / Murkland (Iowa City)
7. Sept of Memnon - "Ego-död (As The Temple Burns)" / As The Temple Burns EP (Davenport)

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BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM  KFMG - Des Moines
Wednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux City
Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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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.

1. Kiwi Pizza - "Mary Ann" (Cedar Falls)
2. Run Dog - "The Big Room" / The Big Room (Waverly)
3. Drink Quicklies - "Tommy Two Necks" / Acceptable Receptacle (Des Moines)
4. Jordan Sellergren - "Stupid T-Shirt" / Banner Year (Iowa City)
5. The Beat Strings - "Before the Light" / Love Lust Wonder (Marshalltown)
6. Dylan Sires - "Around You" / Long Over (Waterloo)

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BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM  KFMG - Des Moines
Wednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux City
Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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First off, thank you to everyone who came out this past Monday for the first dungeon synth show in Des Moines featuring Tyrant of Gorgon, Amon Lanc and Holy Vestige. 50+ people plus Iowa Public Radio came out and did some coverage for us. Tonight we are still in our ordinary format and we got some thrashy goodness for you.

1. Idolist - "Garden of Fear" / Idolist (Marshalltown)
2. Druids - "Dark Columns" / Spirit Compass (Des Moines)
3. Phantom Lightkeeper - "Fire Spirit" / Shore Ghosts (Cedar Rapids)
4. Dose - "Pellet Gun Shy" / Dose (Des Moines)
5. Captain Three Leg - "Creeper" / 4-Way Split (Ottumwa)
6. G.L.U.E. - "Deathwish" / pray for us now in the hour of our death (Sioux City)
7. Rue Morgue - "Tending to the Links" / Rue Morgue (Des Moines)
8. Vitam Eternam - "Prelude - the Gathering" / Blackened Dreams of Nocturn (Ottumwa)
9. Chemical Buffet - "Liquid Trilogy" / The Paperhead Tapes 1994-1996 (Des Moines)
10. True Commando - "Humiliated Son of God" / Riot Jungle II (Iowa City)
11. Holy Vestige - "Black Rainbow" / Holy Vestige (Marshalltown)
12. Basketball Divorce Court - "My Hidden Feelings are Crying Out in Pain" / What is a Man? (Iowa City)
13. James and the Jelly Biscuits - "Hurry up Santa" (Ottumwa)
14. Mainstreet Blake - "Astral Weeks" (Waterloo)
15. Scrid - "Oralice" / The Island of Misfit Toys (Iowa City)

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BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM  KFMG - Des Moines
Wednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux City
Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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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.

1. Younger - "Trash" / Night Milk (Iowa City)
2. Gunk Lung - "Car on Fire" / The Burner Split (Iowa City)
3. Moon Summoner - "4 Corners part 2" / 4 Corners (Des Moines)
4. The Autumn Project - "Four" / La Luna de Negra (Des Moines)
5. Full Fathom Five - "Why They Are So Worn" / Iowa Compilation Vol 1 (Des Moines)
6. Tom Wizard - "Lair of the Fell-Witch" / The Lich Chamber (Waterloo)
7. Holy Vestige - "Prey" / Holy Vestige (Marshalltown)
8. Vitam Eternam - "Enslaved by the Crepuscle's Call" / Blackened Dreams Nocturn (Ottumwa)
9. David Brooks - "Music Boy" / Iowa Compilation Vol 1 (Des Moines)
10. toolongdidntread - "Goat Bots Got Boats" / molt (Sioux City)
11. Nostromo - "Scruff" / Entropy (Dubuque)
12. Meskwaki Bingo - "High On Life" / Fountain of Youth Vol II (Iowa City)
13. Mr. Blanding's Dreamhouse - "Second Grade" / Fountain of Youth Vol II (Iowa City)
14. Epileptic Cheetah - "Nowhere USA" / GTOF (Cedar Rapids)

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BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM  KFMG - Des Moines
Wednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux City
Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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Happy Thanksgiving! I tried to make a themed show tonight and I don't know how well I did but the highlight is the new holiday EP from Captain Three Leg called "Thrashgiving". Plus new Tomb Wizard and we revisit some classics including Moveable Feast, Slughive (early band of Joel Anderson of Ten Grand), Ritual of Agony and  The Hollowmen.

1. Moveable Feast - "The End of the World" / Live at the Laughing Iguana 1989 (Des Moines)
2. Meth and Goats - "She Murdered Everything in Sight" / Split with Ten Grand (Quad Cities)
3. Running Man - "Numbskulls" / Running Man (Quad Cities)
4. Rue Morgue - "Man, I Stuck my arm in the blender" / Demo (Des Moines)
5. Why Bother - "Helen's Father (Has No Heart) / Case Studies (Mason City)
6. Captain Three Leg - "Thrashgiving" / Thrashgiving (Ottumwa)
7. Slughive - "If it works..." / Slughive (Cedar Falls)
8. Fate - "Without You (Part 3) / Another Day Alone in My Thoughts (Cedar Falls)
9. Tomb Wizard - "Their Scales Shine" / Dark Draconic Ambience Vol. 2 (Waterloo)
10. Dylan Shiv and the Shanks - "Combat Punx" / Combat Punx (Independence)
11. Swing by Seven - "I'd Rather Be In Modesto" / Swing by Seven (Sioux City)
12. Ritual of Agony - "Pariah" / Half Past Dead (Des Moines)
13. House of Large Sizes - "One and a Half on a Hill" / Iowa Compilation Vol 1 (Cedar Falls)
14. The Hollowmen - "Never Ending Ceiling" / Iowa Compilation Vol 1 (Des Moines)

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BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM  KFMG - Des Moines
Wednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux City
Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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I love this November heatwave that we are having here in Des Moines. We got show filled new and "new to me" including Keith Rich of Druid's personal archives. We got KGB, Radio Moscow, Holy Vestige (new Bo Becker project), some dungeon synth project called Plague Relic. I also found a weird ska band called An Afternoon Snatching which sounds like its from 15 years ago.

1. The Dogs - "Freakin on the Street" / Teen Slime (Decorah)
2. KGB - "Professor Jimmy James / 5 Song Demo (Des Moines)
3. Radio Moscow - "I Just want to make love to you" (Des Moies)
4. Why Bother - "I Take Back" / Case Studies (Mason City)
5. Phantom Lightkeeper - "Sundance (For Link)" / Shore Ghosts (Cedar Rapids)
6. Luxury - "Green Hearts" / Green Hearts 7" (Des Moines)
7. Holy Vestige - "The Nithing" / Holy Vestige (Marshalltown)
8. Box Boy - "Porch Swing" / Death of Your Culture (Iowa City)
9. Plague Relic - "Suicide of the Bard" / Plague Relic (?)
10. Deivore - "Infatuated with Clouds" / Pervade Effluvia (Tipton)
11. Idolist - "Action Potential" / Idolist (Marshalltown)
12. Greg Wheeler & The Poly Mall Cops - "Fernweh' / Slimephone Surveillance (Des Moines)
13. An Afternoon Snatching - "Save it for Another Day" / Well, It's Definitely Not Meatloaf (?)
14. Mike V and the Rats - "The War" / Mike V and the Rats (Des Moines)
15. Nian - "Someone's Gone" / 5 Song Demo (Marshalltown)
16. Dose - "Moral Swing" / Dose (Des Moines)
17. Fate - "Where am I Going" / Alone Again with my Thoughts (Cedar Falls)

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BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM  KFMG - Des Moines
Wednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux City
Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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My favorite pizza metal auteur Woodrow Hall of Frontal Assault joins us tonight to talk about the band's upcoming split with Takacs along with their supporting tour with Ill Omen.

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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 [email protected]. 

BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM  KFMG - Des Moines
Wednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux City
Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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Happy Halloween! I am sorry if this has been a light season, the top part of October was extremely busy for me in the film world. But I tried to pack last week and this week with some spooky tunes. Lots of rippers and even a few first time plays with Obeygrey, Cosmic Fraility, Nian, Mike V & the Rats and Gore God.

1. Night Stories - "Sam's Equinox" (Des Moines)
2. Pitch Black Manor - "The Sleepover Set" / The Sleepover Set (Quad Cities)
3. Greg Wheeler and the PolyMall Cops - "Animal" / Slimephone Surveillance (Des Moines)
4. In Loving Memory - "Great Day At The Dawns" / A Gentler Sun (Des Moines)
5. Mike V and The Rats - "Viewpoint" / Mike V and The Rats (Des Moines)
6. Nian - "White" / 5 Song Demo (Marshalltown)
7. If I Could Just Get Some Sleep - "The Inside" / Dead Nerves, Numb Hands (Dubuque)
8. True Commando - "Cross the Block (Paint the Target)" / Riot Jungle II (Iowa City)
9. Obeygrey - "Beluga" / Mind of Glass EP (Cedar Falls)
10. Cosmic Fraility - "Sitting in the Dark With You" / Untitled (Cedar Rapids)
11. Tomb Wizard - "Asleep in Twilight's Coffin" / Asleep in Twilights Coffin (Waterloo)
12. Idolist - "Prophet Descends" / Idolist (Marshalltown)
13. Druids - "Acid Realm" / Spirit Compass (Des Moines)
14. Fungal Mass - "Butchered" / Psychedelic Poison (Wilton)
15. Gore God - "Cauldron" / Gore God Demo 2 (Des Moines)
16. Deep Fried Embryo - "Cold Medicine" / split with Handicap (McGregor)
17. Vitam Eternam - "Enslaved by the Crepsucle's Call" / Blackened Dreams Nocturn (Ottumwa)

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BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM  KFMG - Des Moines
Wednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux City
Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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We are back with our regular music show featuring all sorts of spooky vibes and new releases from a handful of bands including Pitch Black Manor, Greg Wheeler and the Poly Mall Cops, Brutal Shift and the recording debut of Bat Problem.

1. Pitch Black Manor - "The Thing in the Woods" / The Halloween Scene (Quad Cities)
2. Greg Wheeler and the Poly Mall Cops - "Slimephone" / Slimephone Surveillance (Des Moines)
3. Bat Problem - "Bare Wires" (Des Moines)
4. Phantom Lightkeeper - "Idyllwild" / Shore Ghosts (Cedar Rapids)
5. Why Bother? - "Feeding the Birds" / Case Studies (Mason City)
6. The Afterdarks - "No Good" / Rock N Roll is Dead (Quad Cities)
7. Captain Three Leg - "Hotel Broslin" / 4-Way Split (Ottumwa)
8. Finally Some Action - "Put on the Mask" / Mode 7 (Keoukuk)
9. Brutal Shift - "Wings of Guilt" / Pain Has Brought Me More Peace Than God (Dubuque)
10. Nightrazor - "Nitropolis (jacket.remix)" (Des Moines)
11. Chemical Buffet - "Dark Journey" / The Paperhead Tapes 1994 - 1996 (Des Moines)
12. Fate - "We Belong To The Bight" / Another Day Alone with my Thoughts (Cedar Falls)
13. Milk Duct Tape - "Gojira" (Iowa City)
14. Surf Zombies - "Green Sticky" / It's... A Thing! (Cedar Rapids)
15. Honky Tonk Overlords - "Crop Circles" / Sci-Fi Fish Fry (Ottumwa)
16. G.L.U.E. - "Night Crawlers" / pray for us now in the hour of our death (Sioux City)
17. Son of the Morning - "The Rule of Three" / Son of the Morning (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 [email protected]. 

BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Thursdays at 9PM on 98.9FM  KFMG - Des Moines
Wednesdays at 11PM  on 90.3FM  KWIT - Sioux City
Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.7FM KOJI - Okoboji

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