Marla Hooch is 4 Brooklyn girls wearing booty shorts playing post-riot girl dance punk, guaranteed to make onlookers dance their asses off in a sweaty, drunken frenzy.
Influences include Ac/Dc, Lil' Kim, Bikini Kill, and Joan Jett.
As featured in Vice Magazine, Mass Appeal, GO-NYC Magazine, and The Portland Mercury, Marla Hooch has played festivals including Ladyfest South, and Culture Shock Fest. The girls have played the NYC local scene in venues such as The Knitting Factory, Piano's, SIN-E, Galapagos, CBGB's, Cake Shop, and have toured the Pacific Northwest and the South in the past year.
Marla Hooch's website: marlahooch.com!
PRESS REVIEWS
Hooch It!
They may wear costumes, but these girls aren't fooling around. Lock the wink wink of Ween, the abandon of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the sex of Peaches, and the catchiness of the fucking Shangri-Las into a room and have Joan Jett's cover of 'Bad Reputation' blasting, and you begin to understand what a Hooch show is like. If you like to get drunk, sweaty, and laid, Marla Hooch is pretty much your wet dream.
Christen Thomas
Vice Magazine
Punk A La Maurer
In his future tense chapbook 'Don't Take Your Life', … Clorox Girls leadman Justin Maurer mentions that his little sister, Jenny, once had a habit of absconding with girls he liked and doin' it with 'em. That was before she started an all-girl, queer dance punk band Marla Hooch, in which she delivers suggestively bending, drawn-out guitar leads during songs like 'Show Me How (to Talk Dirty)'. Hooch also features that blown-amp bass sound characteristic of Brooklyn bands that get your feet moving. I have a feeling that half of my friends who currently have a crush on Justin might soon shift their collective swoon to a new Maurer.
Jason Simms
Portland Mercury
I Feel Something Funny Down There
About 45 minutes after snuggling up with my 2nd complimentary Maker’s Mark, somewhere in between the end of the show I was supposed to review and the beginning of the rest of my life…it happened. “Um, Hi. We’re Marla Hooch. Are you ready? 1-2-3-4!†So if you like feeling funny down there, or funny at all, get to a Hooch show ASAP.
Thomas Oliver
Telegram & Gazette
