Rolling Stone Magazine releases their most anticipated concerts and shows of 2008. What do you think?

Well, I can’t say I’m terribly impressed with this summer’s offerings. I know I’m HUGELY dissappointed that Rocklahoma didn’t make the list. Here’s the run-down of summer concerts, and my own thoughts on the matter.

Jimmy Buffett
Through October 25th
Tickets $30-$226
So who actually pays over $200 per ticket to clam bake and listen to beach songs?

Coldplay
June 29th-Fall 2008
Tickets $50-$85

The Cure
Through June 21st
Tickets $35-$135
Opener 65daysofstatic
I love Cure… can’t bash the ones you love. It would be wrong.

Eagles
Through August 2nd
Tickets 50-$190
A perfect demonstration of a shift in a genres sound actually changing a band’s classification from rock to country without the band changing at all.

Melissa Etheridge
June 15th-September 9th
Tickets $35-$108
Maybe I can find that hot lipstick lez I hooked up with at Lilith back in 98?

Foo Fighters
July 9th-August 9th
Tickets $25-$50
Worth twice the ticket price and then some!

Gnarls Barkley
Dates TBA
Tickets TBA
Is this supposed to be a play on dog names? I thought Snoop already covered that territory?

Jack Johnson
June 13th-August 24th
Tickets $24-$50
Openers Rogue Wave, Mason Jennings
Where’s my ticket? I could use a nap!

Jonas Brothers
July 4th-August 31st
Tickets $21-$200
Openers Demi Lovato
OMG IMM SO AXCIETD I CUD PE!!11!!!1! OMG IMM SEPNDNG MAH LIEF SAVNGS ON THASE TIKETS SO KEVIN JONAS CAN REALIEZ IMM HIS FUTURA WIEF!1!!!!1 WTF LOL

Linkin Park
July 16th-August 23rd
Tickets $20-$80
I’m angry at my parents and want to drown… I wrote 30 songs about it that will make me rich! Oh shit… these guys already did that.

Maroon 5/Counting Crows
July 25th-October 4th
Tickets $21-$197
Openers Sara Bareilles
“This love has taken control of Mr Jones and me…” Fun times I’m sure.

Dave Matthews Band
May 30th-September 7th
Tickets $32-$75
Openers The Black Crowes, Paolo Nutini
I actually DID take a nap at a DMB concert once. It was quite relaxing. Like acupuncture… but not really.

John Mellencamp
July 8th-August 2nd
Tickets $17-$125
Opener Lucinda Williams
Didn’t he play that perverted redneck in “Lonestar State of Mind”? Man that movie was f’d up!

Mötley Crüe
July 1st-August 31st
Tickets $25-$100
Openers Buckcherry, Papa Roach
100% AWESOMENESS. And if you say otherwise I’ll gag you with Nikki Sixx’s banana hammock and let Tommy Lee rock out on your face!

New Kids on the Block
Through November 26th
Tickets $35-$200
Is this a joke? Really? I don’t think it’s funny. You know you really shouldn’t be mean to people like that. It can scar them for life.

Nine Inch Nails
July 25th-September 6th
Tickets $30-$62
Hmmm… Since I was able to legally download their last album totally free, I kind of feel obligated to pay for nine inch nails tickets. It’s only fair.

Panic at the Disco
Through June 14th
Tickets $24-$40
Openers Phantom Planet, Motion City Soundtrack
I just love boys in eyeliner. They make me feel all warm and fuzzy. Seriously. No… i mean it!

Paramore
Dates TBA
Tickets TBA
Opener Jack’s Mannequin
Didn’t Paramore break up about five minutes after they became famous? Then I guess they’re right on time for a reunion tour.

Pearl Jam
June 11th-30th
Tickets $42-$77
Openers Kings of Leon, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
I’m still alive and apparently so are they. I’d pay to see proof.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Through July 19th
Tickets $25-$125
Openers Sharon Little
Why does she always have that “he touched me in my privates” look in pictures with him?

The Raconteurs
Through June 13th
Tickets $25-$40
Openers The Black Lips
Wait, isn’t that the guy from White Stripes?

Radiohead
Through August 28th
Tickets $30-$75
Openers Grizzly Bears, Liars
Hmmm… They have low-emission LED lights in their stage show. How very green of them.

R.E.M.
May 23rd-June 1st
Tickets $24-$125
Openers Modest Mouse, the National
Fantastical assembly of talented artists.

RockStar Mayhem Festival
July 9th-August 19th
Tickets $7-$60
Lineup Slipknot, Disturbed, Dragonforce, Mastodon
Why don’t more tours take on names? Lilith Fair may have been gay, but at least you knew it when you heard the name. Rockstar mayhem… well, that pretty much sells the ticket for me!

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
July 27th-Late August
Tickets $40-$97
Boss? Yeah about 20 years ago. The only people into the “boss” are NYC cops and steel workers.

Steely Dan
June 8th-August 9th
Tickets $29-$200

Stone Temple Pilots
May 17th-October 26th
Tickets $19-$125
Openers Frank Black, Wolfmother
Same songs, different stages… of aging

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
May 30th-August 29th
Tickets $29-$150
Openers Steve Winwood
Tom Petty can break my heart any day.

Rod Stewart
July 30th-August 28th
Tickets $29-$250
Ohhhhh the rhythm of mah heart, is beating liiike a drum, with the words I love you rollin off my tongue…” Come on… you know you wanna sing along!

James Taylor
May 22nd-August 6th
Tickets $20-$126
He’s still alive?

Vans Warped Tour
June 20th-August 17th
Tickets $23-$37
Lineup Gym Class Heroes, Cobra Starship, Say Anything, Against Me!, Angels and Airwaves, Horrorpops
Then Ken says “Come on Barbie, let’s put on chucks and spray colors in our hair and pretend to be punks for a day!” right before he slips her the ruphie.

Kanye West
Through June 11th
Tickets $30-$175
Openers Rihanna, N.E.R.D., Lupe Fiasco
Anyone who uses “ho” as every other word is not an “artist”, it’s just a person with a high-paid stutter.

Wilco
Through June 14th
Tickets $24-$40
Openers Phantom Planet, Motion City Soundtrack
That’s the name a bread company out here. I don’t get it.

Also on tour this summer are Death Cab For Cutie, Mark Knopfler, John Mayer, George Michael, The Police, 311/Snoop Dogg, and Tom Waits. Check Ticketmaster’s easy to use search ticket pricing and availability.

As the country of Montenegro capitalizes on their .me domain country code, business owners should too!

Trademark-holders have until May 20 to register their company and product names under the new .me domain, which is being marketed as a generic top-level domain by the country of Montenegro. Applicants include Apple — which registered apple.me, ipod.me and itunes.me — as well as Microsoft, Skype and Digg.

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I find it hard to believe that companies are just now catching on to what the newest generation of net-life is all about. It’s about me. What I want as a consumer, what I think as an individual and what I feel like participating in. Internet in general has gone from a basic form of data delivery, to a mass information storage and retrieval system, to its’ current incarnation of user controlled communication in just a few decades. So it’s no surprise that somewhere in Montenegro someone figured out how to make millions off this growing internet atmosphere of personalization.

I expect that the recent publicity push will drive millions of businesses and individual users to register their .me addresses. I expect to see everything from do.me to doyoulove.me pop up over the next few months. I think a side-trend of this registration rush will be the amount of dirty words that get registered as a domain name for the sake of the adult industry.

Find out if your .me domain is still available at www.GoDaddy.com