A new Internet radio station from Hometown Sounds, once a DJ night at the Argonaut on H Street NE, came online last night. The new site, which rotates genres but sticks to locally made music, is the creation of Paul Vodra.

If you regularly tune into to an Internet radio station while working at your computer (and we most certainly do), you’ll likely not be able to find any music on your favorite station tomorrow. The regularly scheduled programming of tens of thousands of Internet radio stations will come to a halt tomorrow as part of a national Day of Silence organized by SaveNetRadio.org, a coalition of artists, labels, listeners, and webcasters. Web radio stations are…

Monopoly may be coming early to the budding satellite radio industry as XM Radio and Sirius attempt a marriage of convenience (with just a hint of desperation). A joint statement from the companies calls the move an “all-stock merger of equals.” Word on the street is that the companies would likely keep much of their offices both in New York (Sirius) and Washington (XM), but certainly some layoffs and job consolidation would follow. There have…