Premiere: Jim Bianco – Say My Name
Jim Bianco is back with a firey new anthem “Say My Name” that will have your body rocking and feet moving to the catchy tune! While it’s got a message, it WILL get the party started.
About the song Bianco says, ” ‘Say My Name’ could be the soundtrack for the apocalypse. Spawned in reaction to the suffering, political demagoguery and fear presented in our media, it’s part sports anthem, part maniacal rant, sung from the first-person perspective of a lunatic narcissist who desperately craves the attention of the world as he sets it on fire. ”
About Jim Bianco
Jim Bianco is a founding member of the Hotel Café scene, the venue in Los Angeles credited with the renaissance of the LA singer/songwriter movement. With Hotel Café as his jumping-off point, Bianco went on to tour the country and the world with performers such as The Milk Carton Kids, Imogen Heap, Shelby Lynne, Squeeze, Concrete Blonde, Butch Walker, Greg Laswell, Joshua Radin and many more.
Though unconventional, his music has garnered the attention and support from the likes of NPR’s “All Things Considered’, HBO’s True Blood, TNT, AMC’s “The Walking Dead”, NBC’s “Grey’s Anatomy”, and the Getty Museum, to name a few.
In 2013, Bianco’s record COOKIE CUTTER was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” with Audie Cornish. Jim performed a song for Audie that he wrote specifically for her based on a questionnaire she had filled out. Here’s a link to the interview. The full Cookie Cutter album can be heard here.
In 2015, Bianco created FORNIQUETTE, a 12-piece brothel band comprised of bawdy horns, gypsy accordion, surf guitar and several of LA’s top burlesque performers. The music defies genre and the live show resembles a circus. Clips from the live performance are here.
Here’s a link to the full FORNIQUETTE record.
In November of 2016, AMC chose a song Jim’s song “EASY STREET” for an epic scene in season 7 of THE WALKING DEAD. This was a track Jim produced for a side project called “The Collapsable Hearts Club”. The placement triggered an explosive reaction worldwide, trending on Twitter, garnering over twelve million Youtube hits, hitting #6 on ITUNES singles and reaching #1 on the Spotify Viral charts.
In July of 2018, during the height of the child separation policy, the Portland branch of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) blasted EASY STREET for 20 hours at OccupyICE protestors (reenacting the scene from the Walking Dead). Bianco was forced to send a cease and desist to the Department of Homeland Security.
The entirety of this story will be featured on NPR’s “Snap Judgement” sometime in July 2019.
About the Author
Dr. Jerry Doby Editor-in-Chief of The Hype Magazine, Media and SEO Consultant, Journalist, Ph.D. and retired combat vet. 2023 recipient of The President's Lifetime Achievement Award. Partner at THM Media Group. Member of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, the United States Press Agency and ForbesBLK.
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