Iowa Basement Tapes

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The podcast archives are coming back! Iowa Basement Tapes has been airing weekly on airwaves but I haven't been getting them uploaded. So As a Thanksgiving treat I am getting them all…

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Zach Walther joins us tonight on my first night back in the good ol DSM. We talk Orville Sash, Animal Mothers, and his days living in the Haunted Basement. This is a really fun conver…

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I am over halfway done with this rough train ride called filmmaking. I am excited to get back home. Excited to let you know that Zach Walther will be coming on the show early in Sept…

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I am starting my 21 day stay in Iowa City on feature film shoot so I am packing in a lot of eastern Iowa tunes over the next few weeks. Lots of Brazil, Deerslayer, and goodies from t…

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Week 2 of me hanging in Iowa City. I'm on a grueling schedule with a six day week working on a split schedule that is killing my vibes. But I am digging out a lot of eastern Iowa tun…

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I am recording in Farmington, New Mexico. The most northern tip where I am about an hour away from Mesa Verde in southern Colorado.

Iowa Basement Tapes has its own archive of Iowa mus…

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July is coming to a close and I am about to hop a plane back to New Mexico. Tonight I bring you tunes from Person Whale, Drednex, Skyscraper, and some other dodgy bands. I don't have …

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Tonight I am recording in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This show breaks new grounds with bands from three new cities: Shadrack Chameleon from Humboldt, Zini from Lamoni (yes you read correc…

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I'm recording from sunny lukewarm Los Angeles. Tonight I bring you some tracks from the All Iowa Noise Insurgency cassette compilation. These are the more mellow/drone pieces from S…

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It has been one year since Iowa Basement Tapes hit the airwaves. The first show aired July 5th 2018 at 9PM on 98.9 FM KFMG - Des Moines. I know most of you who listen to this show no…

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We have a really heavy show tonight. It's probably the most talking we have ever done on this show and it is also our loudest show to date. My guest Nate Phillips (Traffic Death / ex…

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Summer solstice is here and I have lots of new tunes this week including Fairhaven, a ska band from Davenport, The Mighty Accelerator from Ottumwa, and Sharing Mass Graves from Cedar …

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50 weeks this show has been on the air and I have never missed a show since it began. It's a milestone show so I am playing some of my favorites since the beginning including CR Dick…

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May is coming to an end and summer is almost here. I have a lot of guests whom I have been waiting to get on the show but they all have kids so summer might be the only time to do it…

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I have been on a Wych Elm kick this week. Picked up the two Milk Sickness records from Sump Pump and they absolutely rule. Tonight I premiere the new single When Bitter Spring Sleeps…

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You probably noticed about 3-4 week delay with me getting old shows up. Commercial season picked back up and I have been on back to back shows. Anyways enough about my life. Tonight…

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I feel like I have avoided playing tunes from Ames because I have always thought that the music from that city was extremely self indulgent. But I have come to love that about Ames. …

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Tonight studio manager Gary and I sit down with Jeff Morgan formally of Squidboy and currently the bass player for the band No Good Deed. He brings us his Iowa playlist plus we get to…

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Tonight I mixed a lot of new with some old (and some really old). New material from Druids and Finally Some Action and a long lost release from the Cedar Rapids progressive stoner ro…

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I am all over the place tonight with tunes from every part of the state: Sioux City, Des Moines, Waterloo, Waverly, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Clinton, Keokuk, and Dubuque. I was prese…