Subject: Yonnas Abraham

• Review: Westword Music Showcase @ DC10 - 6/16/07

  June 18, 2007

• The Pirate Signal added as support for 3OH!3 tour

  September 23, 2008

• The Pirate Signal invades Sundance. Takes no prisoners.

  Goodness gracious. Our man Yonnas Abraham has got his hustle down cold. Just received word that the Pirate Signal has been tapped as the house band in some fabuloso mansion during the Sundance film festival in Park City, which kicks off next week in Park City, Utah. Broseph is going to be throwing down at after hours fiestas being thrown by -- brace yourselves; this is truly bananas -- 50 Cent, Ed Hardy and Justin Timberlake. I know, right? Of course, with every upside, there's a downside. In th

  January 8, 2009

• Pirate Signal continuing to make moves

  From the sounds of it, the Pirate Signal has been working overtime. Fresh on the heels of wowing crowds at this year's Sundance film festival, preceded by a string of dates supporting 3OH!3 last fall, the act is headlining a stellar bill at the Marquis Theater this Saturday, March 14, that also features ManeRok, Air Dubai and Dante. We've also heard that Yonnas Abraham will be making a special appearance at the Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band show the night before at the Bluebird, where he'll p

  March 10, 2009

• Over the Weekend: The Pirate Signal at the Marquis Theater

  Photo by Chad FahnestockDJ Beretta, D. Allie, Dante, Air Dubai, Mane Rok and the Pirate SignalMarch 13, 2009Marquis TheaterBetter Than: Puking up green beer outside Scruffy Murphy'sEntering the Marquis Theater on Larimer Street on Saturday night was like stepping into a warm, dry bungalow after being drenched by freezing rain. In this case, however, the warm, dry bungalow was the eclectic, soulful mixing of DJ Beretta -- which provided the ideal ramp-up into a night of exceptional live hip-hop -

  March 16, 2009

• The F-Troop

  June 21, 2007

• A useless apology to the Pirate Signal

  Chad Fahnestock A brief story: Our Best of Denver issue came out this week, and among the winners was the Pirate Signal, for their hip-hop mixtape Of Gods and Gangsters, Vol. 1. So as the lowly web editor, I included their photo in a slideshow I put together of the arts and entertainment winners. How thoughtful of me, right? Yeah. Well. As more than one hip-hop fan has noticed, I included a picture of the wrong damn MC, swapping in a photo of Mane Rok for the above shot of the Signal's Yonnas A

  March 26, 2009

• Letters from the week of April 2

  April 2, 2009

• Road Kill

  Outrageous gas prices threaten to slow down touring acts.

  June 26, 2008

• Moving Pictures: Casselman's Bar & Venue, MBV, Autumn Film, Primasonic, Maris the Great, Adai, To Be Eaten and Dualistics

  'Twas yet another sensational weekend for music in the MHC. Kicked the weekend off by having a few drinks at Casselman's Bar & Venue on Walnut, the latest addition to the Ballpark neighborhood -- or as owner Matt Casselman prefers, "NoDo." The place has tons of potential thanks to an attached thousand-person capacity concert hall. From there, we packed our earplugs and headed to My Bloody Valentine at the Fillmore, which, unsurprisingly, was a veritable who's who of the scene. We caught up w

  April 27, 2009

• A band-by-band guide to the 2009 Westword Music Showcase

  June 11, 2009

• Meet the Pirate Signal, one of Denver's most compelling hip-hop acts

  June 11, 2009

• Westword Music Showcase: How I saw thirty bands in five hours and lived to tell about it

  Photo by Bert Ross For this year's Saturday's Westword Music Showcase, I told myself I was going to take it easy. No running around like an idiot, trying to see as many acts as possible. Instead, I would move at a leisurely pace, sampling and savoring instead of trying to gorge myself on as much music as I could stuff into my ears. But try as I might, I couldn't make myself do it. With so many artists representing so many different styles performing in such close proximity to each other, I simp

  June 15, 2009

• Mile Hi-Fidelity playlist - 06.10.09

  With all the Showcase hoopla last week, a few of our normal features slipped through the cracks, including this one, wherein I provide you with a rundown of the radio show and then offer up the playlist for your consumption. A week removed, honestly, I can't really remember too much about the show other the fact that Andy commented how much he really dug the playlist that night, and that we had Yonnas Abraham from the Pirate Signal on the air and he pretty much killed it with his incisive wit an

  June 17, 2009

• Q&A with DJ A-What from the Pirate Signal

  Because of his outsized persona, Yonnas Abraham is the face that most people generally associate with the Pirate Signal. If you look over dude's shoulder, though, there's another cat that cuts an equally impressive figure in his own right on the ones and twos. That distinguished chap's name? Alejandro Martinez, or DJ A-What, as he's better known in hip-hop circles. We finally had the chance to chop it up with the turntable technician in an effort to find out what, ahem, makes him tick. Turns out

  June 19, 2009

• Monolith 2009, Day Two: The Mars Volta, Chromeo, MSTRKRFT, Phoenix and more

  Monotonix set off the SoCo stage.​ Elsewhere: See reviews and photos from Day One. We're back on the Rocks for what, so far anyway, is looking to be a much more pleasant day than Saturday. In case you missed yesterday's festivities, it was viciously cold and wet, and not at all conducive to enjoying music. Today: Sunny and warm, at least so far. We'll be here all day, posting reviews and photos as they come in. It starts right now:

  September 13, 2009

• Introducing: Blackhearts

  ​Just a bit ago, Blackhearts, the thus far super secret collaboration between Yonnas Abraham of the Pirate Signal, F.O.E. and Karma, made its online debut with a track called "Bloodlines of That Gangsta Shhh." According to Abraham, the still burgeoning outfit will expand to include collaborations with other artists such as Catch Lungs, Whygee, Naeem Oba, Haven, 800, Sunkenstate, ManeRok, DJ Cavem, Swaun Blaze, Isis, Acezi, Bianca Mckahn, Deca and Adam Halferty of Young Coyotes and Brandon fro

  October 30, 2009

• Animals At Risk remixes the Swayback

  Matt Fecher isn't letting the grass grow under his feet. Although his hands are clearly already full with helping curate the Monolith Festival, Fecher, who DJs under the name Hot to Death, is constantly moving in a number of different creative directions at once it seems, from launching and hosting the sporadic yet increasingly popular New Music Mondays at the Larimer Lounge, to embarking on various collaborations, such as Animals At Risk, the name finally given to the electro-clash project fe

  November 3, 2009