BINO BAMES RELEASES BOLD DEBUT SINGLE
Bino Bames doesn’t do soft launches. The 19-year-old multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and creative force crashes into 2025 with his debut single, ‘Cocktail Princess’
Raised in the neon shadows of the Vegas Strip, Bino is a half-Filipino, half-American outsider who channels the energy of icons who bled their truth into every creation – Syd Barrett, Elliott Smith, Daniel Johnston, Radiohead, Velvet Underground, Mac Miller, Andy Warhol, Spike Jones, Kurt Cobain, Led Zeppelin – fusing their unfiltered spirit into a raw and otherworldly sound that’s entirely his own.
Bino’s debut single, ‘Cocktail Princess’ is a woozy, genre-warped odyssey for love’s beautiful wrecks. It follows his standout live performance at Abbie McCarthy’s Good Karma Club @ The Lexington – a full throttle introduction to an undeniable force: visceral, unpredictable and impossible to ignore.
More than a musician – Bino is a polymath, blurring the lines between music, art, and fashion. A true DIY visionary, he crafts every aspect of his creative world: playing keys, drums, guitar, and bass; producing his own demos; designing his artwork; conceptualizing his music videos; and curating his distinct visual identity.
The accompanying music video for ‘Cocktail Princess’ is a testament to this. Filmed and directed by Bino himself on the streets of Las Vegas using his VX1000 camcorder, it pays homage to the motorbikes, skateparks, and late-night city rides that shaped his youth, a skillset honed from years of documenting his skateboarding and motorcycle tricks.
His fashion presence is equally noteworthy. Recently dressed by SONGZIO and Undercover for Milan and Paris Fashion Week 2024, Bino also turned heads front row at London Fashion Week 2025 for Mark Fast, cementing his status as a tastemaker beyond just music.
Born Gino James Rayos, Bino Bames is a product of contrast -raised amidst the flashing chaos of Las Vegas. ‘I’m like, third-generation Las Vegas,’ he says. ‘It’s rare people are actually from there. Growing up there gave me a huge appreciation for showmanship, but it also showed me how to survive. Billion-dollar casinos surrounded by poverty and addiction-that contrast defines who I am. If I could survive Vegas, I can survive anything.’
Leaving home at 15, Bino escaped what he describes as ‘a place that was going to swallow me whole.’ What followed was a nomadic existence as he drifted through New York, LA, and Portland, existing on borrowed couches and borrowed time. Every late-night conversation, every underground show, every rain-slicked alleyway shaped his music before he even realised it.
After years grinding in the underground, Bino linked up with producers Invisible Men and Darryl Reid (Lil Peep, Charli XCX), to craft his forthcoming debut EP, Gathers No Moss – a raw collision of grit, artistry, and unfiltered emotion, teetering between folk outsider intimacy and alt-rock anarchy, and built for sleepless nights and restless souls.
This isn’t an artist waiting for permission. He’s not here to fit in. He’s here to tear it all down and build something new. 2025 belongs to Bino Bames.
LISTEN TO/ SHARE BINO BAMES’ ‘COCKTAIL PRINCESS’ HERE