I finally signed up for a Second Life account as it seems that the game is now making the news on a regular basis. There have been recent articles ranging from CNN, that wrote about one potential "new new" career as a Second Life lawyer, to Buddahead's real life/Second Life mashup concert last month at the Canal Room.

Suzanne Vega was the first major artist to perform in Second Life (see clip below) and Duran Duran performed in the game a few weeks later. Both of these performances took place at the end of last year.



Just over a month ago, Buddahead played a mashup concert at the Canal Room (in NYC) and a number of songs from the show have been posted to YouTube. I have included links to the first two songs that the band played below.





Below are the current game stats from Second Life's home page. This really looks like something both musicians and corporations need to explore further. I can easily imagine this becoming the next "MySpace" (or equivalent).

Total Residents: 7,256,167
Logged In Last 60 Days: 1,768,672
Online Now: 34,312
US$ Spent Last 24h: $1,703,488

Links:
Buddahead (link)
virtualive.tv (link)
SecondLife (link)