Kevin Bronson on September 6th, 2011

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Wednesday is “Buddy Holly Day” in Los Angeles, and on the anniversary of the four-eyed phenom’s 75th birthday he will get a (long-overdue) star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with an invitation-only concert that night at the Music Box featuring an A-list lineup of performers including Paul Anka, Lyle Lovett, Chris Isaak, Michelle Branch, Raul Malo, Stevie Nicks, Graham Nash and Boz Scaggs. So the shamelessly retro rock of the Hopelessly Devoted has arrived just in time – or 50-some years late, depending on your point of view. The L.A. band is a side project of local Britpoppers the Idyllists, and frontman Ian Webber and mates Eitaro Sako, Derek McGill and Sam Gallagher have the ’50s down pat. Their new album “Introducing the Hopelessly Devoted” is the stuff of poodle skirts and sock hops, a crisply played, heartfelt homage to the pop and rockabilly that inspired decades of tunes that followed. Let’s dance.

||| Download: “Radio Radio”

||| Also: Check out the album “Listen to Me: Buddy Holly,” a compilation tribute featuring Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks, Imelda May, Chris Isaak, Lyle Lovett and more.

||| Live: The Hopelessly Devoted headline the Troubadour on Thursday night, supported by Fearmia and Tori Roze and the Hot Mess.

||| Watch: After the jump, check out the video for “Watch That Girl”: