Bumpin Uglies bring it home to The Recher

The Annapolis reggae-rock band that started at Maryland open mics closes out a fall run with a Sunday-night show in Towson on Nov. 8.

Bumpin Uglies started the way a lot of Maryland bands do. Brandon Hardesty played open mics around Annapolis with his first bass player, and by 2008 he and percussionist Zach Pfefferkorn had a band. Eighteen years later, they're still coming home. On Sunday, November 8, Bumpin Uglies play The Recher at 512 York Road in Towson. The venue lists doors at 6:30 p.m.

Our records have them playing the Baltimore market more than anywhere else, 23 shows, which makes sense for a band that called its 2022 record *Mid-Atlantic Dub*. Towson isn't Annapolis, but on a Sunday in November, it's close enough to count as a hometown night.

The Recher date comes at the tail of a busy fall. The band has been out on the Orange Crush Tour this fall. The night before Towson, they're at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park with Artikal Sound System and the Joey Harkum Band.

A band that named a record Mid-Atlantic Dub is playing its own backyard.

Joey Harkum is on our bill for Towson, too, and he fits. Harkum is a Maryland musician who guested on the band's 2024 album and has opened for them across the Northeast, including a solo slot on the Lyrics Over Everything Tour stop in Pawtucket in November 2024, per Etix.

That tour was named for *Lyrics Over Everything*, a 14-track record that the band's own promotion puts at the end of a decade of releases. We didn't find an announced new album for 2026, so expect a set drawn from that catalog. It's reggae-rock with punk energy and Hardesty's wordy, hook-heavy writing up front.

The lineup has turned over through the years. Hardesty is the one founding member still in the band, and the current group includes T.J. Haslett, Will Lopez, Ethan Lee Lichtenberger and Brent Schraffenberger, according to the band's Wikipedia entry. But the Maryland roots haven't moved. The band's own site is the place to check for anything new.

The Recher is a good room for this kind of show. It's a roughly 650-capacity theater right in the middle of Towson, big enough for a real crowd, small enough that the front of the room still feels like a party. A Sunday-night show means you'll be home at a decent hour too.

Bumpin Uglies play The Recher in Towson on Sunday, Nov. 8, with Joey Harkum. Doors 6:30 p.m.

Sources: The Recher: Bumpin Uglies (therechermd.com); The Stone Pony: Bumpin Uglies, Nov 7, 2026 (stoneponyonline.com); Etix: Bumpin Uglies with Tunnel Vision and Joey Harkum (Solo), The Met RI (etix.com); Old Rock House: Bumpin Uglies (Lyrics Over Everything) (oldrockhouse.com); Festival Squad: Brandon Hardesty talks Bumpin Uglies (festivalsquad.com); Wikipedia: Bumpin Uglies (en.wikipedia.org); Bumpin' Uglies official site (bumpinuglies.com)