Iowa Basement Tapes #380 01-01-2026 HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Night Listeners -

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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Fridays at 7PM on 89.7FM KRUI - Iowa City
Wednesdays at 11PM on 90.3FM KWIT - Sioux City
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