The Rockin' Hops

The Rockin’ Hops are an uptempo 3 piece band blending musical elements of rockabilly, punk, and roots rock n’ roll.

The band dates back to the early aughts when Nick Schloesser (guitar/vocals) and Dave Harm (bass/vocals) picked up from the ashes of a defunct punk rock band and wrote a few rockabilly songs and performed them along with some covers at local open mic nights at various bars in the La Crosse, WI area.

Things picked up steam for the duo in 2019 when they were able to recruit recovering guitarist Ross “the atomic clock” Wuttke (percussion, animal sounds, vocals) on drums. From there The Rockin’ Hops was born. Their sound can loosely be described as The Clash meets Johnny Cash and consists of some hoppin’ originals about real life (skateboarding, bicycling, bar hopping) along with traditional rockabilly style covers and covers of songs that aren’t typically thought of as rockabilly, yet The Rockin’ Hops are able to give them their own “rockabilly-esque” treatment.