Iowa Basement Tapes

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Back to form with some first time plays! We got Nostromo, If I could Just Get Some Sleep, and Otis (we may have played Otis). February is going to be a busy month. We got at least tw…

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The universe can only stand in our way for so long. Tonight we finally have Haploid with us at the KFMG studios in downtown Des Moines. We talk about their origins from growing insid…

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Here are on this iceberg I have been cooking up this packed show with the return of some old friends including Traffic Death, Sonic Disruption Theory, Captain Three Leg, Karen Meat a…

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We were supposed have Haploid on this week but we had that damn blizzard. Later this month its happening!  Tonight we got bangers from Megapunch, Strong Like Bear, Preacher Gone to T…

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Here is our first show of 2024 and we come in hot with The Brix and their cocaine fueled pop punk. We also got first time plays from Centaur Noir, Bryon Dudley, Burn the Ailment, and…

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Here it is! Our last show for 2023 which is mind boggling. I am sure I say that every year. 2024 takes will take Iowa Basement Tapes into it's sixth year on the air which is wild to…

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We are back to our normal music show and we debut an unheard track from unheard of band called Black Death. This band features members from Shamrock Shakes. We also bring back Waverl…

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Tonight we have a wonderful treat with a second guest this month! Aaron Longoria of Early Girl is on the show. One of my favorite discoveries of 2023 and a listener favorite. We play…

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I have been teasing this interview for almost two months! Curt Howard of Chemical Buffet is our guest. Chemical Buffet was a project I discovered just from doing this show. Chuck Hof…

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That rumble you hear is my voice melting away into the either. We have a packed show tonight because I am losing my voice. First time plays from Good Habits, Lshapedpool, Stateparks,…

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Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all are stuffed to the gills and ready jam some tunes with me for an hour. On the menu tonight I have some warm hippie love from Goldblums, punk rock …

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Welcome to Thrash City II! As with the last Thrash City episodes we are strictly in head banger alley. 

1. Lord Green - "Flying" / Discography (Quad Cities)
2. Telekinetic Yeti - "Cult of Y…

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We are now in the 2nd Thursday of ordinary time. Our opening banger, Death Killer Overdrive covering "Life is a Highway", slipped through the cracks. We also got a first time play wit…

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It is the first Thursday of ordinary time here at Iowa Basement Tapes (a little Catholic humor... I'm not Catholic). We are twerking some eastern Iowa hardcore tonight with Take Cont…

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Happy Halloween everyone! Tonight we play all the rockabilly and psychobilly along with everything in between! First time plays from Zed (psychobilly from Bettendorf). Plus some extr…

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We have a return to form tonight! First of we have some first time plays with Mr. Meat and the Vegans and Sean Tyler. I dig out some classics from Milk Duct Tape, Red Throb, and Unis…

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It is criminal to think that it has taken five years to have Ben Smasher on this show. I can say honestly that Iowa Basement Tapes would not exist if it wasn't for him and his origin…

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Tonight we have one of the funnest shows that we have done in a long time. Greg Wheeler and Phil Young the duo that make up the season spooky synth band NIGHT STORIES are with us. We…

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I present the sludge tonight in honor of broadcasting from roach motel in Waterloo/Evansdale. Our last show for September and we are stomping it into the autumn ashes of hollow earth.

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I think I have packed the most bands in one show ever. Eighteen bands in one hour! Featuring a track off the new Double Dice tape, new Nebuleth,  new Ill Omen (feat Frontal Assault),…