Who says the greatest band in the world couldn't be an MC and a DJ? Started in 2000, but in it's current line-up since 2006, the pirate signal answers that question and so much more. Born and raised in Denver Colorado, featuring Yonnas as MC/Producer and DJ A-What as turntablist, the band was a originally started as an underground mix tape exchange by Ben Serruto, but became a full-blown band when Yonnas entered the group and asserted that they make the greatest album of all time. That album, Norma(l) Hugh Manchild's American Revolution(s) (2004) (referred to as The Norma(l) Album), may not have accomplished that goal, but it was not for lack of ambition. Sprawling, challenging and fiercely explosive, the album served as more of one long melodrama than a collection of songs, many of the messages and lyrics lost in the outright aggression and complex arrangements. "What we learned from that album is what not to do."

In 2006, the founding member, Ben quit the group to pursue a solo music career just as DJ A-What was beginning his tenure as man on the decks for the band. Quickly regrouping The Pirate Signal released an EP "The Name of This Band is The Pirate Signal", featuring hit singles on the college radio circuit, "Go!", "I Can't Wait," "An Emergence of Black Heroes", "You Will Get Dirty", "It Might Just Go Down," and "All I Know is.....It Was an Accident", that's right, six, count 'em six, songs getting regular rotation on college radio throughout the country, out of eight, that ain't so bad. The project was so so strong that locally, it garnered them Best Hip Hip in Colorado 2007, 2008 and 2009 from the Westword, the local Village Voice Media Publication, beating out 30h!3 and Flobots for the honor the first year... Read More

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