Edhochuli, which plays Hooch and Hive in Tampa, Florida on Dec. 12, 2024. Credit: Photo via Edhochuli/Bandcamp
Ed Hochuli refereed a lot of games during his 28-season run as an official for the National Football League, and while he retired in 2017, he gets to live on thanks to Pittsburgh psychedelic-rock quintet Edhochuli (stylized all-lowercase).

“Our former drummer Garett Mount, our guitar player Dave Rath and I got drunk and watched a Steelers game. We thought Steelers The Band was not a very good band name,” bassist John Ahn told New Noise Magazine about the moniker. “Ed Hochuli was the referee of the game. Since he looked nice, we chose him.”

Hochuli (and his son, also an NFL ref) are, indeed, fine-looking gentlemen, but so are the boys in the band who’ve added texture and theatrics to their once math-rock-centric sound.

Tickets to see Edhochuli play Hooch and Hive in Tampa on Thursday, Dec. 12 are still available and start $15.

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This article appears in Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...