by SHANE SINNOTT

Daytrotter (daytrotter.com), that website I wrote about here a long time ago that records quick live sessions with musicians travelling though Rock Island, IL, is still at it. One band per day, every day of the week, is their goal—meaning 28 free, downloadable songs. They scored one of their bigger, or at least more hyped, acts in a while when the Antlers dropped by at the end of October. The session is now up on the site at tinyurl.com/yg6utg2. Be sure to visit the archives as well—most of the bands you’ve heard in the past two years has passed through at some point.

Two gems are available over at the always amazing Root Blog this week—check out the audio section—and both require getting your drone/shoegaze on. First is a live performance by Terry Riley, one of the founding fathers of minimalism in music, at the Berkeley Art Museum this past Nov. 6. The second is a collection of demos and outtakes from Slowdive’s 1993 shoegaze masterpiece, Souvlaki. Links to both are at tinyurl.com/ykgzf5y.

Beck has released a 10-plus-minute tribute to the experimental composer Harry Partch on his website, beck.com. This, in turn, lets me talk about a funny online beef. As you may recall from reading this column, Radiohead released a tribute song to Harry Patch, the last surviving World War I veteran, a little while ago (get it at tinyurl.com/mw73lo). Then Matthew Friedberger, the guy from the always-great Fiery Furnaces, got confused and thought the song was about the composer, who he apparently thinks is really cool, and wrote, “Fuck you! You brand yourself by brazenly and arbitrarily associating yourself with things that you know people consider cool... How’s the song? Is it 48 notes to the octave? What does it have to do with Harry Patch?” Friedberger tried to backpedal, and has now released a statement—read it at tinyurl.com/yl49ala—in which he claims he was not confused about any song titles. He does, however, start it with, “Like most creative musicians, Matt Friedberger is not a fan of Radiohead and their various chart busters.”