The music website also put the Quad-Cities on the map, according to Kyle Carter, executive director of Downtown Davenport Partnership.

"People all over the globe know about Rock Island and Davenport because of Daytrotter," Carter said. "Daytrotter is still going, and this gives Sean the freedom to do whatever he wants, so we really get the best of both worlds with that."

Benjamin Crabb, who formerly worked at Ragged Records, already has taken over for Moeller’s booking duties at Daytrotter.

Sagan calls Moeller an “outstanding curator of musical talent — one of the very best out there.” He said Crabb is “pretty high up there, too.”

“Daytrotter has been left in good hands,” Sagan said. “The Daytrotter model will continue on and continue to grow.”

That model is something Moeller said he simply grew out of.

"I had ambitions that went beyond the structure of Daytrotter. You want something to be a certain way, and it can't ever be that way," he said. "I sort of had to choose — do I keep doing this thing because I made it and created it, because it's my baby? Or do I take a very scary step and decide that I just want to be happy?