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We now have the most important episode of Iowa Basement Tapes for 2025 thus far! The legend Bob Bucko Jr is on the show. If you don't know who Bob is, you probably don't listen to music. Long time performer, owner of the Personal Archives record label and co-owner of the Ruix Records in Dubuque, Iowa. Follow him on Instagram.

1. Bob Bucko Jr. - "Youse Blues" / What if my Water (Dubuque)
2. Liberty Leg - Can’t Stop / Country Doctor 7” (Iowa City)
3. The Slats - "Exit the Green Gable" / The Great Plains of San Francisco (Cedar Rapids)
4. Heaven Drugs - "Skull Thrower" / Floating Dinosaur split (Des Moines)
5. Cervine - "Gnawing" / Liminal Entity (Dubuque)
6. The Multiple Cat - "His Master’s Voice" / The Return of (Davenport)

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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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We got a fun show tonight revisiting The Iowa Compilation Vol 5. plus new tunes from Zuul, TV Cop and Purplish. First time play from Vitalith. If you are in Cedar Rapids this weekend please be sure to check out  the Cold Shock metal fest at CSPS on Saturday featuring Toxic Hell, Liquid Decomposition, False Providence, Phantom Threat, Pursuit and Ruin Dweller.

1. Mugwump - "Get Out" / Iowa Compilation Vol. 5 (Cedar Falls)
2. Purplish - "Son of a Gun" (Spencer)
3. TV Cop - "Rigged" / 4 Way Split (Ottumwa)
4. Iowa Beef Experience - "Bad Wishes Come True" / Iowa Compilation Vol. 5 (Iowa City)
5. Zuul - "No Friend of Mine" / Zuul (Iowa City)
6. Vitalith -"Setting Out" / A Short Walk Home (Waterloo)
7. Tomb Wizard - "Lord of Rot" / The Lich Chamber (Waterloo)
8. Bob Bucko JR - "Heavenly Routine" / I Did What I Could With What I Had (Dubuque)
9. G.L.U.E. - "Deathwish" / Pray for us Now in the Hour of our Death (Sioux City)
10. Idolist - "Souls" / Idolist (Des Moines/Marshalltown)
11. Gunk Lung - "Joaquin Phoenix Suns" / Support System (Iowa City)
12. Mainstreet Blake - "Pool Party" / Sorta VHS (Waterloo)
13. Why Bother - "Chasing the Skull" / Hey, At Least You're Not Me (Mason City)
14. Kerosene Circuit - "Road Test" / Kerosene Circuit (Dubuque)

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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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Our first show for 2025! I packed it in tonight with a lot of material that we haven't played in awhile including Sludgeplow, Finally Some Action and Ten Grand.

1. Ten Grand - "Get Out of My Dojo" / This is the Way to Rule (Iowa City)
2. Slut River - "A Ratt" / S-R (Iowa City)
3. The Obsolete Andrew Joseph Caffrey - "No Strings" / The Obsolete Andrew Joseph Caffrey (Cedar Rapids)
4. Billy Crystal Meth - "Mr. Saturday Night" / Mother's Day / The Buzzard Of Doom Will Peck Your Eyes Out (Ottumwa)
5. Sludge Plow - "Instinct" / Hash (Cedar Rapids)
6. Mr. Nasti - "Innovation" / Mr. Nasti (Fairfield)
7. Chemical Buffet - "Stay Forever... and Ever and Ever" / Smoking Mirrors (Des Moines)
8. Centaur Noir - "Cameo" / Memories II (Quad Cities)
9. Nightrazor - "shenzen steel" / Bleeding Edge of Night (Des Moines)
10. Contakta - "NTS" / Bodyheat (Des Moines)
11. North of Grand - "I 80" / Cut You Down (Des Moines)
12. The Least Worst - "The Women of Goodwill" / First Worst (Ottumwa)
13. C.H.U.D. - "Joey Lawerence Theme Song" / Straight Edge Apocalypse Hardcore Murder (Des Moines)
14. Big Sky -"Fond But Not In Love Pt 3: Vesuvius /  Fond But Not In Love EP (Waterloo)
15. Finally Some Action - "Stay Asleep" / Stay Asleep (Keokuk)

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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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Our last show for 2024! I tried to stay true to form tonight with what Iowa Basement Tapes is all about. July of 2025 will mark our seventh year on air/internet. We really packed in the interviews this past year plus the Des Moines area voted me "Best Radio Voice that Turns You On" in the Cityvew Magazine Best of Des Moines polls.

1. Abscess - "Trash Bag Murders" / Political Vomit (Perry)
2. Acoustic Guillotine - "Hurry Up and Finish Dying" / 1st 7" (Iowa City)
3. Animals on LSD - "Missionary" / Warhorn (Des Moines)
4. Beyond Peace - "Doughboys" / Beyond Peace (Iowa City)
5. 149 Dead Marines - "No Safety Dance" / Basement Demo 1984 (Iowa City)
6. Hot Carl - "(You Make Me Want to be) Castrated" / It Hits the Sauce (Dubuque)
7. Boner Kill - "I Don't Care" / Boner Kill Demo (Cedar Falls)
8. Bovinophobic Bile Puddle - "Decompose Me" / BBP (Iowa City)
9. Is World - "Either Or" / Turning EP (Quad Cities)
10. Young Indiana - "Edge-ucation" / Hardcore (Dubuque)
11. Zenith - "Crumbling Inward" / anti-extinction EP (?)
12. Joel Sires - "The Late Great Jessie Gates" / Dog Years (Cedar Falls)
13. Preacher Gone to Texas - "Integral" / Motion to Melody (Quad Cities)
14. Rational Anthem - "Thinkin' About Ya" / Emotionally Unavailable (Iowa City)
15. Joretta Oaks - "High School" / Icarus Falls (Ottumwa)
16. Jonestown 4 - "When You Look at Me" / Jonestown 4 (Iowa City)
17. The Savage Young Taterbug - "Shoes" / EP - Nitetrotter Sessions (Iowa City)
18. The Ballet - "The UAW Hall" / We Were Wild Buffalo (Quad Cities)

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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
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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Happy holidays from Iowa Basement Tapes! Lots of first time plays and maybe even some weird choices. It's been a good year here at the show and I hear some things brewing for next year that are pretty exciting.

1. Captain Three Leg - "A Christmas Greeting" / A Captain's Christmas (Ottumwa)
2. Captain Three Leg - "A Partridge With H​.​I​.​V. (Festering Puke)" / A Captain's Christmas (Ottumwa)
3. Captain Three Leg - "Jingle Bells" / A Captain's Christmas (Ottumwa)
4. Animal Mothers - "Solar Priestess" / Kill Em, Y'all (Des Moines)
5. Nickel Smelter - "Padded Room" / Padded Room + 2 (Iowa City)
6. Otis - "S-Man" / S-Man (Iowa City)
7. Tommy Santee Klaws - "Tract House" / A Table for Me (Iowa City)
8. Iodlist - "Warmth" / Lord of Heavenly Dwelling (Marshaltown)
9. G.L.U.E. - "Burn In Down" / Pray for Us Now Until the Hour of Our Death (Sioux City)
10. Groom Lake Locusts - "A1" / Demo (For Madison)
11. E H I - "All Alone" / Under the Rails (Des Moines)
12. Grogshow - "Lapsing with the Drain Pipe" / The Mysterious Fall Tape (Iowa City)
13. Ivy Gate - "Bardolo" / Ivy Gate (Mason City)
14. Foul Tip - "Bro Zone" / Split with Pancho (Iowa City)
15. Pancho - "Tap Your  City" / Split with Foul Tip (Iowa City)
16. Redbear - "Plaza Heights" / pour vous (Marshaltown)
17. Everlasting Light - "Heavy Sanctuary" / Rehearsal Demo (Quad Cities)

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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
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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Tonight we have Brandon L. of Enchanted Silver Records. The dungeon synth warlord behind Tomb Wizard, Moss Troll and Tyrant of Gorgon. We explore the world of black metal and it's cryptid offspring that is dungeon synth. He has only been in Iowa for four years so the playlist tonight is a mix of his own picks plus some tunes I wanted to introduce him to.

1. Tomb Wizard - "Dragged Through Umbral Pathways" / Asleep in Twilight's Coffin (Waterloo)
2. Precious - "Take Away the Pain My Lord, I Devote Myself to Thee // Ruined Temple in the Hills" / He Has abandoned Us  (Iowa City)
3. Dryad - "Brine Pool Aberration" / The Abyssal Plain  (Iowa City)
4. Telekinetic Yeti - "Ancient Nug" / Primordial (Dubuque)
5. Glass Ox - "Fear Riders" / Temptress (Marshalltown)
6. When Bitter Spring Sleeps - "Eternity Speaks" / 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 [email protected]. 

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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We have a bunch of first time plays tonight from everywhere. I really tried to hit as much from Sioux City, Mason City, Marshalltown and the Quad Cities as I could but so much of what we plays is from DSM or IC. Big shoutout to Kelly Plumber for the Dredex live track!

1. G.L.U.E. - "Night Crawlers" / Pray For Us Now In The Hour Of Our Death (Sioux City)
2. Running Man - "In the Shadows" / Running Man (Quad Cities)
3. The Horde - "Odin's Blood" / The Blackened Reign (Quad Cities)
4. The Value of Human Life - "Swarmed" / The Cost of Human Values (Cedar Rapids)
5. The Twelve Cannons  - "What Makes a Man" / Volume Two (Iowa City)
6. Deathgaiden & The Introvert - "Ghost" / Ghost EP (Sioux City)
7. Preachers & Herb - "Strychnine Rules" / Superman's Trip Tonight (Des Moines)
8. The Done Wonders - "The Night Follows" / The Done Wonders (Marshalltown)
9. The Value of Human Life - "Red Witches" / The Cost of Human Values (Cedar Rapids)
10. Idolist - "Garden of Fear" / Idolist (Marshalltown)
11. Red Bear - "Displaces" / Pour Vous (Marshalltown)
12. Locomotive Gun - "Locomotive Gun" / Rock N Roll Vol 1 (Sioux City)
13. Psyop - "Communicate" / Dare to Live (Iowa City)
14. Drednex - "Radar Love" / Live (Cedar Falls)

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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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Happy Thanksgiving! We have an interview with Dubuque artist and filmmaker, Tim Connery. He was the frontman for Nethervoid and Seppuku. He has a solo ambient projected Holes Appearing on Breaching Static and we have been working together in the film world since 2018. We talk Dubuque lore and dive into his Iowa playlist.

1. Nethervoid - "The Nethers Nativity" / Sires of the Blistering Lights (Dubuque)
2. Ax - "Aniti-Christian Tyranny" / Empire (Iowa City)
3. Smothering Angels - "Catharis" / The Intricate Design of Subversion (Dubuque)
4. The Twelve Cannons - "I'm not a Gambling Man" / Volume Two (Iowa City)
5. Liquified Decomposition - "Playing God" / Filekeeper (Dubuque)
6. The Rodeo King

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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
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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It's the week before Thanksgiving and I packed the show nonsense. Only first time play is Bad News from Cedar Falls but we got a full show of hardcore, crust, black metal and jazz.

1. Genital Hercules - "Theme from Cheers" / Live 5-22-04 (Iowa City)
2. Acoustic Guillotine - "DM" / 1st 7" (Iowa City)
3. Big Box - "$5 Gummy Bear" / Demo (Iowa City)
4. Only Ten Between Us - "Stick Together" / Youth Posi Snack Attack (Iowa City)
5. Beef Wellington - "We Care" / Tender & Juicy (Cedar Rapids)
6. 7inchWave - "Break to Fast" / Demo (Ames)
7. Bad News - "Thing One, Thing Two" / We Get That A Lot (Cedar Falls)
8. Canu Draig - "Dusty Old Book with Crumbling Pages" / In Capable Hands (Ames)
9. Billy and the Black Spit - "Path to Pith" / Mother Nature's Gun (Des Moines)
10. Bouquet - "Southpaw" / Cardinal (Des Moines)
11. Animals on LSD - "Warhorn" / Warhorn (Des Moines)
12. BBP - "Burning Heaps of Rancid Carrion Litter the Fields of Iowa" / Moribund (Iowa City)
13. Abscess - "Trash Bag Murders" / Political Vomit (Perry)
14. CR Dicks - "Who's The Rooster" / Dick Moves (Cedar Rapids)
15. Dose - "Closed Blinds" / Dose (Des Moines)
16. Ax - "Dawn of Solitude" / Extirpation (Iowa City)

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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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We got an interview with Patrick Gilligan from the dread filled hills of Dubuque, Iowa. We talk about his history with his original solo noise project I Like You Go Home and his most recent one-man hardcore drum n synth band If I Could Just Get Some Sleep.

1. If I Could Just Get Some Sleep - "Run" / If I Could Just Get Some Sleep (Dubuque)
2. Closet Witch - "Rule by Bacon" / Complete Discography (Quad Cities)
3. Dredge - "The Crumbling" / Ashbreathers (Dubuque)
4. The Tanks - "3D Glasses" / Pull The Trigger, Bear (Dubuque/Iowa City)
5. Modern Life is War - "Media" / Fever Hunting (Marshalltown)
6. Kerosene Circuit - "Try as I May" / Kerosene Circuit (Dubuque)

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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
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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