Looking for new live music in Second Life? Take your friends on a visit to the island of Trax, home to dozens of small listening booths, each featuring streams of several songs from a Second Life musician. (There's also artist info and gig listings, and occasionally, a link for buying their music online.) In other words, it's pretty much like a 3D version of MySpace, except without annoying video ads and friend requests from webcam sex workers.
Direct SLURL teleport to Trax island at this link.
Launched in November on an Openspace sim, the owner, Bones Writer, recently moved to a full sim, and it's already attracted thousands of visitors. He charges each musician L$800 a month to rent a booth, but says that fee goes to cover the island costs-- "We're right on the cusp each month," he tells me, "give or take a Linden." A musician himself, Bone says they feature a "meet the artist" event every month; at the moment, the booths host 95 individual musicians, each with their own audio stream, with more to come soon. Thanks to Delinda Dyrssen for the heads up!
I am looking forward to seeing this.
Posted by: Geo Meek | Friday, March 12, 2010 at 08:20 PM