Daytrotter.com

I found a new addiction today in Daytrotter.com.
Based in Can You Dig It?'s Motherland, the Quad Cities, U.S.A, specifically located on the Illinois half in the Rock Island quadrant, Daytrotter is the best music site I've seen in a long time.
Somehow, they are able to recruit musicians to stop by their studio ("The Horseshack") and record live songs, then they give you the recordings for free.
As of today, they've done this 541 times, starting March 23, 2006, with the group Somebody Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, and have since recorded everybody from Bon Iver, Vampire Weekend and Rogue Wave to The Ting Tings, Spoon (covering "Peace Like a River" by Paul Simon), Aimee Mann and Black Kids.
If you like your independent rock 'n' roll, there'll be plenty for you to enjoy, but I found it because they posted a great session with R&B maestro Raphael Saadiq yesterday.
Their "About" page describes it best:
"We’re going to give you something that you truly have never heard. We are not giving you songs from someone you love’s record album, thereby stealing from someone you love. We’re giving you exclusive, re-worked, alternate versions of old songs and unreleased tracks by some of your favorite bands and by a lot of your next favorite bands...
"They use borrowed instruments, play with their touring mates, utilize an often unkempt toilet, eat some food and then cram back into their vans for the last half of the drive. What they leave behind is a pile of ashes, sometimes a forgotten stocking hat and four absolutely collectible songs that often impart on whomever listens to them the true intensity that these musicians put into their art, sometimes with more clarity than they do when they have months to tinker with overdubs and experiments. These songs are them as they are on that particular day, on that particular tour – dirty and alive."

They also do fun little portraits of each artist, like the one above.