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Bud Bronson & The Good Timers
- Rock
- Punk
- Alternative
- 📍Denver, CO
Since 2012, Bud Bronson & the Good Timers have forged a reputation as one of the Mile High City’s hardest working and most beloved bands.
As a prominent player in Denver’s garage and
party rock scene of the early 2010s, the band has since evolved their sound to entail all that comes with aging under the weight of a world that becomes exponentially heavier by the day.
The band’s energetic live shows and unpretentious, all-are-welcome mentality has earned them spots supporting some of modern rocks heroes including Parquet Courts, The Menzingers, Twin Peaks and fellow melodic punk shredders Diarrhea Planet.
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This band has always been about mythology. As young 20-somethings in the early 2010s, we dove headfirst into the cliches of youthful indulgence, championing the idea that maturity was a burden to be forever avoided. Flying the banner of eternal carelessness yielded to heartfelt reckoning on 2018's Between the Outfield and Outer Space, as we confronted our own willful ignorance amidst a country disappearing ever-deeper into a black hole of delusion.
Now in 2020, with the flames of dystopia rising higher by the day, the band's transformation has come full circle. Manifest Fantasy is a greatest hits collection of BBGT tropes -- the war between escapism and reality, the promise and emptiness of idealism, the false safety of the past versus fear of the future -- all delivered with the bone-crushing heaviness of modern-day American existence.
The EP kicks off with "Nightfall at Mount Denial", an explosive instrumental opener that would feel at home on Monday Night Football -- a nod to our country's insatiable appetite for spectacle, excess, and bloodsport.
"Life Is A Highway (To Hell)" oscillates between rage, hope, and despair, wedging classic rock mythology and the feel-good hits of yesteryear against the bleakness of our current
social landscape.
"Post-Rock USA" revisits BBGT in its youngest, most idealistic incarnation, making a larger statement about how promise gives way to disillusionment -- in everything from the stories we tell about ourselves to the myths about our world we must re-interpret as adults.
"Final Fantasy: Infinity" forsakes self-reflection and embraces the chaos, trading white-knuckled fear of the future for a full acceptance of the absurd and uncontrollable nature of human existence.
Is the apocalypse nigh? On "Manifest Fantasy", we take a journey through all the emotions that come with trying to answer such a fucked-up question. The jury is out, but we hope there's something here you can grab onto while you search for your own conclusion.

BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Bud Bronson & The Good Timers
- 📍Denver, CO
- Rock
- Punk
- Alternative
Since 2012, Bud Bronson & the Good Timers have forged a reputation as one of the Mile High City’s hardest working and most beloved bands.
As a prominent player in Denver’s garage and
party rock scene of the early 2010s, the band has since evolved their sound to entail all that comes with aging under the weight of a world that becomes exponentially heavier by the day.
The band’s energetic live shows and unpretentious, all-are-welcome mentality has earned them spots supporting some of modern rocks heroes including Parquet Courts, The Menzingers, Twin Peaks and fellow melodic punk shredders Diarrhea Planet.
read more
This band has always been about mythology. As young 20-somethings in the early 2010s, we dove headfirst into the cliches of youthful indulgence, championing the idea that maturity was a burden to be forever avoided. Flying the banner of eternal carelessness yielded to heartfelt reckoning on 2018's Between the Outfield and Outer Space, as we confronted our own willful ignorance amidst a country disappearing ever-deeper into a black hole of delusion.
Now in 2020, with the flames of dystopia rising higher by the day, the band's transformation has come full circle. Manifest Fantasy is a greatest hits collection of BBGT tropes -- the war between escapism and reality, the promise and emptiness of idealism, the false safety of the past versus fear of the future -- all delivered with the bone-crushing heaviness of modern-day American existence.
The EP kicks off with "Nightfall at Mount Denial", an explosive instrumental opener that would feel at home on Monday Night Football -- a nod to our country's insatiable appetite for spectacle, excess, and bloodsport.
"Life Is A Highway (To Hell)" oscillates between rage, hope, and despair, wedging classic rock mythology and the feel-good hits of yesteryear against the bleakness of our current
social landscape.
"Post-Rock USA" revisits BBGT in its youngest, most idealistic incarnation, making a larger statement about how promise gives way to disillusionment -- in everything from the stories we tell about ourselves to the myths about our world we must re-interpret as adults.
"Final Fantasy: Infinity" forsakes self-reflection and embraces the chaos, trading white-knuckled fear of the future for a full acceptance of the absurd and uncontrollable nature of human existence.
Is the apocalypse nigh? On "Manifest Fantasy", we take a journey through all the emotions that come with trying to answer such a fucked-up question. The jury is out, but we hope there's something here you can grab onto while you search for your own conclusion.
Reviews
“(Brave New) World Series” — premiering exclusively below from Denver punk group Bud Bronson & the Good Timers’ upcoming sophomore album — does involve baseball’s fall classic. But it’s not about balls, strikes or which teams might meet in a few weeks’ time.

“We receive a lot of pitches here at HIGH TIMES for a slew of entertainers, but it’s rare that we commit as easily and quickly as we did to premiering Bud Bronson & the Good Timers’ video for “Vapedemic” from their album, Fantasy Machine. Besides being described as a cross between “Thin Lizzy and Diarrhea Planet,” the Colorado-based rockers’ stripped-down sound is as much retro good-time feelin’ as it is a breath of fresh air.”
— Dabbie Reynolds, High Times

“The kind of triumphant power pop that feels like it’s coming from an honest place rather than being an affectation of style. That they have moved beyond obvious influences makes Bud Bronson & the Good Timers one of the most exciting rock-and-roll bands in Denver at this moment.”
— Tom Murphy, Westword

“Bud Bronson and the Good Timers might lack some of the sheer guitar firepower that Diarrhea Planet are known for, but the Denver band’s ability to live up to their name puts them right alongside the Nashville shredders in terms of pure entertainment. Singer/guitarist Brian Beer performs in a speak-sing style that calls to mind the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, especially in his ability to spin elaborate lyrics into nostalgic coming-of-age tales. The end result makes for classic barroom rock that is equal parts goofball and sincere.”
— Chipp Terwilliger, Portland Mercury
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