{"id":104,"date":"2012-11-04T23:32:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T04:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/?p=104"},"modified":"2013-10-03T18:19:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T23:19:46","slug":"newza-2012-a-critical-and-commercial-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Newza 2012 a Critical and Commercial Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/?attachment_id=112\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112\" title=\"Holy Joe &amp; The Principles pull off back-to-back victories\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/JoesStageSM1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/JoesStageSM1.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/JoesStageSM1-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/JoesStageSM1-417x300.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Star&#8217;s Holy Joe and The Principles smoked their way through a steaming set of powerfully funky Meatloaf and Johnny Cash tunes to capture the 2012 Newzapalooza title before a rapturous crowd of 400. The glittering event &#8211; held at Leslieville&#8217;s storied Opera House &#8211; raised $7,000 for the Children&#8217;s Aid Foundation. To win the crown, Holy Joe had to out rock a tough field of bands from the Toronto Sun, CItyTV, Thomson Reuters, the Globe and Mail and the Canadian Press.<\/p>\n<p>Newxapalooza wishes to thank our special guests for the evening &#8211; MC Jaymz Bee and his good friends in Bonzai Suzuki (thank you, Bubz Magoo) &#8211; and our fabulous celebrity judges:<\/p>\n<p>Dave Martin (davemartinworld.com, @davemartinworld)<\/p>\n<p>Naomi Snieckus (http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1690652\/, @snieckus)<\/p>\n<p>Coun. Doug Ford (http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/councillors\/ford1.htm)<\/p>\n<p>A huge thanks as well goes out to all our sponsors and everyone who attended for making the show such a success. We hope to see you all again next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Star&#8217;s Holy Joe and The Principles smoked their way through a steaming set of powerfully funky Meatloaf and Johnny Cash tunes to capture the 2012 Newzapalooza title before a rapturous crowd of 400. The glittering event &#8211; held &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/?p=104\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newzapalooza.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}