Happy long weekend! Keep it tuned to OZFM for our No Talk, Just Rock Labour Day Weekend, playing the best new rock and the greatest rock of all time. And on Monday, we’re playing the tunes YOU want to hear – email us! Let us know what YOU think is the greatest rock of all time, and the best new rock, and the best rock from Newfoundland… then stay tuned all Monday long to hear us play ‘em one after another, all day and all night with limited commercial interruptions. Have a great long weekend, everybody – stay safe, don’t drink & drive, and keep it on the Rock of the Rock, Newfoundland’s OZFM.

The “Rockin’ the Upper East Side” music festival has, we are sad to report, been CANCELLED. No Goo for you! The music festival, a presentation of David Carver Entertainment and originally scheduled for Sunday, Sep 5 at Glacier Concert Park in Mount Pearl, was to feature Goo Goo Dolls, The Fray, Lifehouse, Ke$ha and more. If you bought tickets at any of the participating retail locations across Newfoundland, you can return your tickets to the point of purchase to receive your refund. If you bought tickets online using a credit card, refunds should be automatic. Watch this article for more details coming soon.

Congratulations to all of our Crash Karma winners! Lucky listeners won tickets to Crash Karma concerts in Marystown (Fri 8/27) and St. John’s (Sat 8/28), and Grand Prize winners at both shows got to go backstage – and bring 3 of their friends – to hang with the band. Big thanks to the Crash Karma band & crew, and staff at both venues, for being terrific hosts. The band also visited the OZFM studio and chatted with Capt. Mark Roberts – we’ll post audio here for you soon! Click here for pics from the St. John’s show at Club One, Saturday night, Aug 28.

Listen to OZFM and you could win free concert tickets to CRASH KARMA, live in Marystown (at the Lil Dory, Friday Aug 27) and in St. John’s (at Club One, Saturday Aug 28)… plus a number of lucky OZFM listeners will MEET THE BAND backstage, and walk away with autographed Crash Karma CDs. Tickets are still available for both shows, but we hear they’re selling out quickly. Get ‘em while you can, and listen to OZFM for your chance (twice daily!) to win a whole bunch of Crash Karma goodness. And look for the OZFM Summer Cruiser Team at both shows!

KROME are one of the hottest new groups to explode onto the Canadian rock scene, and OZFM listeners already know and love their singles “Turn It Up” and the new “TMZ”… (visit MySpace and KROME.ca for more KROME info and music)… Now, KROME and OZFM, in association with Cordova Bay Entertainment and Long & McQuade present the Custom KROME Guitar Giveaway! Listen to OZFM for the KROME sounder, then call (709) 273-2255 for your chance to win tickets to see KROME in St. John’s at the RockHouse on George Street, Sept 11. All KROME ticket winners qualify for the big Grand Prize: a Fender Squier Bullet Strat electric guitar, custom airbrushed with the KROME and OZFM logos (courtesy of Excalibur Airbrushing); a 1-on-1 guitar lesson with KROME’s Shawn Meehan; four free guitar lessons at the St. John’s Long & McQuade Music Education Centre; the new KROME CD and more! Keep listening to OZ for your chance to win.

OZFM listeners were given a fairly easy challenge with a huge Grand Prize… simply reveal the Secret Phone Number one digit at a time. Callers from all over the province competed for 4 full weeks (plus a day) and finally, after a very exciting contest with two games daily, OZFM listener John Furneaux successfully guessed the final number. Everybody who revealed numbers won an exclusive Eastcom/OZFM Rock Phone plus $50 Eastcom Bucks, and the big GRAND PRIZE DRAW (live on the Dawn Patrol, Aug 17) saw lucky listener Travis Jones walk away with a veritable boat-load of goodies from Eastcom – including a Samsung 40″ LCD TV, Samsung notebook computer, Samsung cell phone with basic service for a year, a Clearsounds amplified cordless phone, and much more! Congratulations to everyone who played, and big thanks to everyone at Eastcom!

Lamb’s Rum is an official sponsor of the 2010 George Street Festival, happening Jul 29–Aug 3 in St. John’s, Newfoundland!

WIN the most pimp-out shed on the Rock, with Lamb’s Pimp My Shed! Visit the new Lamb’s Spiced Rum page at Facebook for full prize details and contest rules.

You can also win Lamb’s Rum prize packs from the OZFM Summer Cruiser Team! Listen to OZFM for more details!

Come join us at the 192nd annual rowing of the Royal St. John’s Regatta, and help fill the OZFM Rock Star Coach with food for needy families in Newfoundland and Labrador! Bring non-perishable food items with you to the races, and drop them off at the OZFM bus (it’s hard to miss!)… all donations go to the Community Food Sharing Association. Thank you!

Thanks to all who made the 2010 George Street Festival a huge, unbelievably fun success. Big thanks especially to Bud Light, Lamb’s Rum, the George Street Association, NTV, The Newfoundland Herald, and of course your Rock of the Rock, OZFM.

The 2010 George Street Festival is 6 awesome nights of live music (including Our Lady Peace, Blue Rodeo, Rex Goudie, The Novaks plus MUCH more) and on-the-street summertime revelry! We wait a long time in Newfoundland & Labrador for summer to arrive, and there will be no bigger celebration this year than the 2010 George Street Festival.

Our Lady Peace, The Novaks, and Kujo ROCKED the jam-packed street last night! Night 2 (tonight!) is Bud Light Classic Rock Night, with Canadian rock legends April Wine. Arrive early for the Masterless Men (5:30pm), Mill Road (7pm), and Damian Follett & The Jersey Brotherhood (8pm). April Wine take the stage at 9:30. Get your tickets at georgestreetlive.ca, ticketbreak.com, or at NLC Liquor Stores in St. John’s.