Daytrotter.com turns Quad Cities into indie music hot spot
About 90 musical acts have stopped by a small recording studio about pizza parlor in Rock Island, Illinois over the past year to record a few songs. The live songs are then posted for free download on Daytrotter, an online music magazine.
Daytrotter is basically two guys: a recording engineer with a strong distaste for overdubs and digital recording, Pat Stolley; and a part-time Quad City Times sports reporter, Sean Moeller.
The site attracts bands like Cold War Kids, Bonnie Prince Billy, Whispertown 2000, and Vietnam. Daytrotter doesn't pay the bands, but artists retain the rights to their Daytrotter songs.