http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/arts/music/new-years-eve-entertainment-in-new-york.html 2014-12-26 00:21:31 New Year's Eve Entertainment in New York From electronic dance music to smooth jazz to rough comedy, New York is readying a cityscape of parties for New Year’s Eve. === For tens of thousands of people in New York, the first steps of the new year will be taken on a dance floor. Some want to celebrate the year just past, some to blot it out; some anticipate the coming year, some hope to stave off the dread. On New Year’s Eve the city’s clubs, restaurants, bars and concert halls welcome them all for the annual night of (mostly) premium prices and ritual excess. Electronic dance music has taken over Madison Square Garden, where jam bands like Phish long claimed New Year’s Eve; the newer arena in town, Barclays Center, reaches back generationally to Elton John. Across the city other options abound: mostly party music with an occasional, stubborn bit of counterprogramming. Here culture writers of The New York Times survey the choices before and after midnight. THE BAD PLUS SANDRA BERNHARD IS #BLESSED THE BIRDLAND BIG BAND, FEATURING JANE MONHEIT BORGORE DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER (Ben Ratliff) LEE BURRIDGE, ANDHIM, MATTHEW DEKAY, BEDOUIN, MIKE KHOURY CHARLES BUSCH AND LAURA BENANTI !!!, PRINCE RAMA COCO & THE VANITY VIXENS DEER TICK DISCLOSURE, CLAUDE VONSTROKE, DUSKY, TEN WALLS, KYLE HALL, ISAAC TICHAUER THE DISCO BISCUITS ERASURE (Anderson) MARTIN GARRIX GLASSLANDS GALLERY CRAIG HARRIS THE LOSTON HARRIS TRIO THE HOLD STEADY HOLY GHOST! ELTON JOHN AND HIS BAND DJ KOZE & SVEN WEISEMANN WYNTON MARSALIS QUINTET MARILYN MAYE MURDERFIST’S NEW YEAR MYKKI BLANCO, MEREDITH GRAVES, DUBBEL DUTCH (Caramanica) NEW YEAR’S EVE AT THE COMEDY CELLAR NEW YEAR’S EVE AT THE STAND NEW YEAR’S EVE SPECTACULAR AT CAROLINES ON BROADWAY OBITS RAINER MARIA AND MOSS ICON RING IN THE SWING: A NEW YEAR’S EVE DANCE PARTY CHRISTIAN SCOTT SKRILLEX/DIPLO/ASAP FERG JOHN ZORN ET AL.