Ask HN: Would you use a "Pandora for local artists"?

This weekend, I hacked together a prototype of a web app I've been thinking about for a while - an online radio station that only plays local music. I live in Boston, and we've got an amazing (and huge) local music scene. I love discovering local music (there's not much that compares to the feeling of watching an unknown band absolutely kill a show in some basement in front of 20 people), but I haven't really found a way that's not clunky. I'm lazy - I just want to be played a bunch of local artists, and I want it to be easy to keep tabs on the ones I like (follow, buy tickets, etc).

I've been in bands since I was in elementary school, and there's always this point you get to where you've told everyone you possibly can about your new EP/track/show. Your growth sort of flatlines, and it's not easy to get it to accelerate again. The biggest problem is just getting your music in front of people that haven't heard it before - it's a logistics problem. Like it or hate it, you don't get anywhere if nobody hears it.

So I built Radius to fill these two needs simultaneously. Local artists get a new venue of exposure (a lot like "local hours" on college radio stations - remember radio?). People (like me) get a great, simple way to find and follow local bands. Win-win.

Anyways, I opened Radius up to artists in Boston last night and was really blown away by the number of signups. So with this post, I'm trying to test the other side of things. How many of your enjoy finding new local bands? Would you use something like this to do it? Are any of you artists yourself? Would you welcome a service where you could put a track in front of people in your city?

Would love to hear your thoughts/criticism/awesome ideas. Thanks in advance!

Cheers, Alonso from Radius

* If you like the concept and would like to help beta-test in a few days, there's a signup page at http://getradi.us If you're a musician and you'd like to feature a track, check out http://getradi.us/signup