HOME BASE: New Jersey

STYLE: Buddy Holly tribute, transforming everything from ’50s rock ’n’ roll and doowop, to classic rock, to ’90s alternative hits.

LINEUP: Todd Meredith, guitar and vocals; Jeremy Renner, lead guitar; Jacob Callis, bass; Shawn Ryberg, drums.

FUN FACT: Meredith embodied Buddy Holly for the first time in 2007 when he took on the role in the internationally touring musical “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story.”

TWO’S TAKE: A quainter sort of “rave” culture thrives on LBI.