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THE BAD PLUS The members of this acoustic power trio have recently diversified their output — hear Ethan Iverson, the group's erudite pianist, on the righteous new album "Tootie's Tempo," by the drummer Albert Heath — but that doesn't dilute their potency. The band, with Reid Anderson on bass and David King on drums, can be tender or vaulting; above all, its music bursts with openhearted possibility, a good fit for the threshold of a new year. At 9:30 and 11:30 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village, (212) 255-4037, villagevanguard.com; $150, including both sets and a $25 drink credit, with finger food and party favors. (Nate Chinen)
CHRIS BOTTI Perhaps it's his trumpet tone, suggestive of a shiny surface in soft focus, that has made Mr. Botti an instrumental pop star for our age; perhaps it's his approachable charm and the self-conscious ease with which he inhabits the role. Whatever the case, Mr. Botti knows how to bring a dash of informality to a formal occasion (and vice versa), and has made this residency into a tradition stretching back almost a decade. At 7 and 10 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 475-8592, bluenote.net; $85 to $145 for the first set; $95 to $175 for the second set; includes Champagne toast and party favors. (Chinen)
HENRY BUTLER WITH STEVEN BERNSTEIN AND THE HOT 9 Two-fisted New Orleans piano and old-school soul singing live on in the splashy, flashy music of Henry Butler. Whether he's riding a New Orleans second-line beat, or tossing in classical-piano flourishes, or splintering a soul song into avant-garde jazz, or radically reconstructing a Professor Longhair standard, his virtuosity is a force of nature. For this six-night engagement, which starts on New Year's Eve, he's collaborating with the trumpeter Steven Bernstein and the Hot 9, a gathering of New York City's avant-gutbucket elite, and they're likely to push one another hard. At 7:30 and 10:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232; $125 for the first show, $195 for the second. (Jon Pareles)
CAROLINES NEW YEAR'S EVE SPECTACULAR Wyl Sylvince, Vince August, Michael Che, Phil Hanley and Matteo Lane joke their way out of 2013 before a balldrop viewing. At 8 p.m., Carolines, 1626 Broadway, at 49th Street; price information at (212) 757-4100; carolines.com. (Megan Angelo)
DEADMAU5 The man with the mouse ears persists, even as dance music's rush toward pop's center has begun to leave him behind. At this show, expect the usual outfits — plenty of neon, and plenty of homemade mouse-themed clothing in homage to the star — and the usual music, the progressive house that moves rooms but not, generally, minds. At 9 p.m., Nassau Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale, N.Y., (516) 794-9300, nassaucoliseum.com; $30 to $175. (Caramanica)
MATTHEW DEKAY, AVATISM The New Year's Eve dance music at Output promises a maximum of minimalism: a 24-hour party, with sets from 20 D.J.s and teams. This lineup presents not the booming trance bangers and dive bomber bass attacks that have become mainstream electronic dance music, but the sparser, more subtle approaches of deep house and techno: pinpoint sounds and incremental changes, ticking percussion and woodpecker polyrhythms. Matthew Dekay, the Berlin-based D.J. who is headlining, often calls his music "dream house." Avatism, based in Milan, promises "live," whatever that means here; one of his songs observes, "There's different spaces, I don't know." Will anyone last the full 24 hours? If so, he or she will have heard a whole lot of sampled hi-hats on the offbeat. At 10 p.m., 74 Wythe Avenue, near North 12th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn; $30 to $75. (Pareles)
DIIV, RATKING This year DIIV hoisted Williamsburg's garage-rock torch. Swampy psych-rockers who initially called themselves Dive, in tribute to a Nirvana song, they channel their predecessors' ramshackle stage presence, watertight melodicism and frequently inscrutable lyrics. They're preparing their second album, to be unveiled tentatively in the spring; it follows the breakthrough "Oshin," released in 2012. They are joined by Ratking, a hip-hop crew often tagged as the East Coast's answer to Odd Future for its frenetically paced rhymes, dissonant effects and rapid beats; its debut EP, "Wiki93," was released last fall. With Potty Mouth, Nothing and more. At 8 p.m., Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway, at Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, ticketfly.com; $35 in advance; $40 day of show. (Anderson)
THE DISCO BISCUITS Camp Bisco, an annual summer festival in upstate New York, is in temporary session at this band's annual year-end gig in Manhattan. This eccentric funk-dance group from Philadelphia has recently leaned more heavily toward trance and electronic dance music elements onstage, but you can still expect noodling, open-ended instrumental solos and flurries of psychedelic visuals. At 11 p.m., the Theater at Madison Square Garden, (212) 465-6741, thegarden.com; $69. (Anderson)
THE FELA! BAND The Broadway production of "Fela!" has closed, but its ensemble — including Sahr Ngaujah, who played Fela — continues to perform the Afrobeat repertory of Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Fela merged Nigerian traditions with James Brown funk and late-1960's jazz; devised a deep and burly horn-section sound; stirred in some politics; and came up with songs that simmer and seethe with patient defiance. At 9:30 p.m., the Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Avenue, at Havemeyer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (347) 529-6696, bk.knittingfactory.com; $60 in advance; $70 at door; $600 for a table for two including an open bar, Champagne and other luxuries. (Pareles)
JUDAH FRIEDLANDER AND WYATT CENAC Mr. Friedlander and Mr. Cenac are joined by Sherrod Small, Joe DeRosa, Paul Virzi, Dan St. Germain, Rachel Feinstein and other guests for the Stand's New Year's Eve show. At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m., the Stand Comedy Club, 239 Third Avenue, at 20th Street, Manhattan, (212) 677-2600, thestandnyc.com; $40 for 8:30 p.m., and $60 for 10:30 p.m. (Angelo)
WOLFGANG GARTNER The bucolic coastal California town of San Luis Obispo has yielded a considerable musical output that belies its size: Weird Al Yankovic, John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats and the folk singer-songwriter M. Ward have called it home. So does Mr. Gartner, a rising tech-house auteur firmly entrenched in Britain's influential Ministry of Sound scene. His corrosive, distorted beats evoke (and encourage) the most debauched of dance parties, and his sets at Roseland Ballroom and the Coachella Festival this year further accelerated his crossover popularity from niche D.J. to mainstream draw. He spins at Webster Hall's New Year's Eve Ball, with Gesaffelstein and Brodinski drawing the late (or early morning) shift. At 8 p.m., 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212) 353-1600, websterhallcom/events; $99. (Anderson)
GESAFFELSTEIN, BRODINSKI Gesaffelstein and Brodinski are French aesthetes who make dark, disruptive techno and electro, music that moves with seismic urgency. Gesaffelstein's is gloomier and tougher than Brodinski's, which retains a peppy air. Both ended up contributing production to Kanye West's "Yeezus." With Para One, the onetime producer for the progressive French hip-hop outfit TTC. At 8 p.m., Slake, 251 West 30th Street, Manhattan, (212) 695-8970, slakenyc.com; $50 to $170. (Caramanica)
GHE20 G0TH1K Dark, brooding, sensual, abrasive: The long-running GHE20 G0TH1K party — which spans hip-hop, electronic music, R&B and global bass music — is all of these things. At this rave, the D.J.s will include the doyenne of the scene and sound, Venus X; MikeQ, a young innovator in the New Jersey club and ballroom worlds; Shayne Oliver, also the designer of the cult clothing label Hood By Air; and Rizzla, Uniique, LSD XOXO and Danii Phae. At 9 p.m., 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, at Morgan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, ghe20g0th1k.com; $15. (Caramanica)
GOGOL BORDELLO Downtown's waning punk hedonism endures in this Gypsy-punk troupe, whose unrestrained live carnivals mix Eastern European musicality with sweat-soaked theatrics. "Pura Vida Conspiracy," the group's rough-hewed sixth album, was released in July; it included "Lost Innocent World," its most propulsive track in years, and the soundtrack of the hourglass-themed video the band created in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. With Man Man. At 9 p.m., Terminal 5, 610 West 56th Street, Clinton, (212) 582-6600, terminal5nyc.com; $35 in advance; $40 at the door. (Anderson)
GOV'T MULE On "Shout!" (Blue Note), the revved-up double album it released this year, Gov't Mule played a game of what-if, running down the track list first with its frontman, Warren Haynes — and then again, on a second disc, with guest singers like Elvis Costello, Dr. John and Jim James. It's a good illustration of the pliability that this Southern-rock jam band has made its calling card, and it bodes well for vocal walk-ons during a two-night run in a familiar room. At 9 p.m., Beacon Theater, 2124 Broadway, at 74th Street, (212) 465-6500, beacontheatre.com; $65 to $89.50. (Chinen)
INFECTED MUSHROOM This high-energy psychedelic trance act from Israel has been conjuring dizzying and spacious (though sometimes unbearable) soundscapes for almost two decades. Its music can be incantatory and gratingly optimistic, and its live show is a doozy, full of 3-D visuals displayed on side-by-side pods that hold the members, Amit Duvdevani and Erez Eisen. At 9 p.m., Best Buy Theater, 1515 Broadway, at 44th Street, (212) 930-1950, bestbuytheater.com; $50 to $70. (Caramanica)
BILLY JOEL He's being hailed as the "next franchise" at Madison Square Garden, a distinction that derives from his once-a-month schedule of shows there next year. (Surely it's not also a sop for those disgruntled with that other Garden franchise, the Knicks.) Not to be outdone, the Barclays Center is advertising this one-nighter as his first solo arena concert in the five boroughs since 2006. And the opening act, Ben Folds Five, is led by another piano man, whose lyrics on a recent album, "The Sound of the Life of the Mind," occasionally step onto Mr. Joel's turf: "Rosa Parks and DNA/Joan of Arc and J.F.K." At 9:30 p.m., Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Avenue, at Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, (800) 745-3000, barclayscenter.com; $64.50 to $199.50. (Chinen)
THE JIM JONES REVUE Piano-pounding 1950s rock 'n' roll with everything turned up to 11: That's the straightforward concept, executed with rowdy abandon and proud distortion, of the Jim Jones Revue. In the early 1990s, Mr. Jones led Thee Hypnotics, reviving the fuzz-toned 1960s primitivism of the Stooges; moving back a stylistic decade doesn't hinder his throat-ripping rasp. The band headlines a night of vintage-flavored rock with the Compulsions, Jeremy and the Harlequines, New York Junk and Graveyard Lovers. 7:30 p.m., Bowery Electric, 327 Bowery, at East Second Street, East Village, (212) 228-0228; $40. (Pareles)
WYNTON MARSALIS SEPTET It's not technically an undersell if you're playing in your living room, and Mr. Marsalis, the guiding light of Jazz at Lincoln Center, has made it clear that he regards this club in those terms. What's exciting about his engagement is the band he has chosen to assemble: a near facsimile of his turn-of-the-century septet, featuring insightful partners like the trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, the alto saxophonist Wessell Anderson, the drummer Herlin Riley and the bassist Reginald Veal. At 7:30 and 11 p.m., Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, 60th Street and Broadway, (212) 258-9595, jalc.org; $375 for the first set; $550 for the second set; includes cocktail reception, dinner and party favors. (Chinen)
THURSTON MOORE This underground guitar god, formerly of Sonic Youth, has always been a catholic-minded collaborator, and he settles in with some fittingly raucous partners at the Stone. At 8 p.m., he'll play a duo set with the saxophonist John Zorn, who founded the club. At 10 p.m., for a separate cover, he'll serve up a postpunk fantasia with the bassist Mike Watt, a founder of the Minutemen, and the artist Raymond Pettibon, who designed the Black Flag logo (and the cover of Sonic Youth's "Goo"). Then, not long before the stroke of midnight, Mr. Moore will start up his band Chelsea Light Moving, which released a self-titled debut album this year. Avenue C, at Second Street, East Village, (212) 473-0043, thestonenyc.com; $25 at 8 p.m.; $50 at 10 p.m. (includes the 11:30 set). (Chinen)
MURPHY'S LAW, URBAN WASTE New York hardcore, 1982 to 1985. Murphy's Law, from Lower Manhattan, played fast songs about beer, partying and rule breaking. Wherever the band saw piety, it went the other way, even going so far as to sing a pro-Reagan song ("California Pipeline") to nominally lefty audiences. Urban Waste, from Queens, played faster songs about police hassles and nonconformity: a doomsday band, with a little party on the side. Murphy's Law never really ended, meeting nostalgic needs, getting a little into the ska-punk thing, gigging from time to time. Urban Waste made one great seven-inch EP and broke up, but remained influential; the San Francisco punk band Ceremony recently recorded a cover of "Public Opinion," 29 years after the original. They're both back, with one original member each: Murphy's Law's singer Jimmy Gestapo and Urban Waste's Johnny Waste. With Zombie Fight, Skum City, Death to Slater, and Sewage. At 8 p.m., the Trash Bar, 256 Grand Street, between Driggs Avenue and Roebling Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 599-1000, thetrashbar.com; $12. (Ben Ratliff)
MYKKI BLANCO, DJ RASHAD, IAN ISIAH A patchwork of forward-looking hip-hop, dance and R&B at this likely-to-be-rowdy show: Mykki Blanco, whose overlap of hip-hop and performance art is alternately thrilling and vexing; DJ Rashad, one of the young titans of Chicago's footwork and juke music scenes; and Ian Isiah, a sharp singer who comes on like a DIY version of The-Dream. Also with Boychild, T.E.A.M.S., Princess Nokia and more. At 8 p.m., Gramercy Theater, 127 East 23rd Street, Manhattan, (212) 614-6932, thegramercytheatre.com; $29.50. (Caramanica)
NO STATIK, NOMAD, LA MISMA, GRUDGES Pull back the lens on your life until you're looking at others' as well. Pull it back further so that you can see hundreds of days of many, many lives. Further, further — stop. One year looks pretty much like the next, doesn't it? Calendar units are pretty arbitrary, aren't they? Some of the best new hardcore punk bands, like the Bay Area band No Statik, fronted by the ball-of-fury singer Ruby, drive this lesson home with evergreen pessimism and reliance on 30-year-old verities of speed, swing, volume, shouting and feedback. They're historians of explosion. Also on the bill are three New York grindcore and noise punk bands: Nomad (singing in Japanese), La Misma (Portuguese) and Grudges (grunts). At 8 p.m., Acheron, 57 Waterbury Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, theacheronbk.blogspot.com; $10. (Ratliff)
PHISH This long-running, genre-defining Gen-X jam band has been playing New Year's Eve shows at Madison Square Garden since 1995, and its long sets of originals and unexpected covers have their own lore; when you see the band there, you're taking part in several different traditions at the same time. At 8 p.m., Madison Square Garden, thegarden.com; $65 to $75. (Ratliff)
PUNCH BROTHERS, SARAH JAROSZ If bluegrass were algebra, the Punch Brothers' music would be multivariable calculus, using the same (string band) instruments to explore more complex and nonintuitive possibilities: jazzy harmonies, untraditional timbres, shifty meters, Radiohead songs. There are all sorts of musicianly challenges being made and mastered in the band's songs, but the lyrics and Chris Thile's voice turn the band's cerebral efforts back toward matters of the heart. Sarah Jarosz, sharing the bill, plays banjo, mandolin and guitar, among other instruments; she is building her own intelligent, and sometimes spooky, acoustic Americana. At 9 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, at the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212) 533-2111, bowerypresents.com; $55. (Pareles)
RING IN THE SWING: A NEW YEAR'S EVE DANCE PARTY A tale of two dance bands, one dealing with swing and the other with clave: first, an eight-piece band led by the polished trumpeter Dominick Farinacci, with guest vocals by Charenee Wade; and then the percussionist and vocalist Pedrito Martínez leading his namesake group. The two ensembles will alternate hourlong sets until 1 a.m., at which point they'll converge in a giddy tangle, probably like a few of the couples on the floor. At 8:30 p.m., Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, (212) 721-6500, jalc.org; $325, including two sets, open bar, food, Champagne toast and party favors. (Chinen)
CHITA RIVERA If any performer possesses the secret of life, Ms. Rivera, 80, seems to have it. It's in her proud, high-stepping body language; her air of mischievous, never-say-die sensuality; and her insistence on laughing at life's misfortunes that she personifies unstoppable vitality and joie de vivre. With the possible exception of Liza Minnelli, Ms. Rivera is the ultimate interpreter of the Kander and Ebb songbook, in which the brassier side of show business and life's struggles are synonymous. For her two New Year's Eve shows, she will be accompanied by her longtime trio, under the direction of Michael Croiter. At 7 and 11 p.m., 54 Below, 254 West 54th Street, Manhattan, (866) 468-7619, 54below.com; $300 and $400. (Stephen Holden)
JILL SCOTT Her sultry, jazzy, playful earth-mother voice holds cascades of words: as song lyrics and hip-hop poetry; as tales of passion, heartbreak, struggle and self-invention. Sometimes she makes intimate confessions; sometimes she offers sisterly exhortations. She released her last studio album in 2011, followed by a rupture with her longtime label; perhaps this concert will unveil new songs. Sharing the bill are the R&B singer Luke James and DJ Premier, best known as the producer for Gang Starr. At 9 p.m., Radio City Music Hall, (212) 247-4777, radiocity.com; $70 to $255. (Pareles)
TANLINES D.J. SET The photogenic duo Tanlines from Brooklyn assemble their dance floor collage from sun-bleached tropicalia, atmospheric electropop and synthetic R&B — a fitting alchemy for two Brooklynites who earned their stripes remixing tracks by the indie chameleons Glasser and Telepathe. Last year, on their debut album "Mixed Emotions," Tanlines tapped into a wistful, danceable vein as they confronted adulthood and endearing insecurities; they will most likely spin an eclectic D.J. set in Brooklyn. At 12:30 a.m., Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Avenue, near North 11th Street, Williamsburg, (718) 963-3369, brooklynbowl.com; $15. (Anderson)
STEVE TYRELL "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" is but one timely standard that Mr. Tyrell is sure to sing during this glittery engagement, drawing from his 2010 album, "This Time of the Year." It's his habit to set up holiday shop in this room, and what he lacks in vocal expressivity he can make up in raffish enthusiasm. At 5:30 and 9 p.m., Café Carlyle, 35 East 76th Street, Manhattan, (212) 744-1600, thecarlyle.com; $175 for the first show; $600 for the second, which includes dinner. (Chinen)
THE WILLIAMSBURG SALSA ORCHESTRA, ANTIBALAS The Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra mixes the core of the New York salsa repertory with songs from recent years of indie-rock and punk; Antibalas, the long-running Afropunk and Afro-Latin band, makes music to keep losing and finding yourself in, with chants, polyrhythm and dense horn arrangements. Both bands do party music by definition, no matter what day. 8 p.m., S.O.B.'s, 204 Varick Street, at Houston Street, South Village, (212) 243-4940, sobs.com; $40 to $160. (Ratliff)
WINTER GALACTIC The promised special effects are to include snow at this electronic dance party, where house, dubstep and trance will be thumping, buzzing, lurching and doing bass drops until 4 a.m. The headliners include Dada Life, the Swedish duo that pound out booming party anthems like "So Young So High"; Porter Robinson, an American who veers in various directions from electro house; and Rusko, a dubstep pioneer. With W&W, Bassjackers, Cash Cash and Bambi. Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street, Manhattan, (212) 279-7740, wintergalactic.net; $78.25 to $322.05. (Pareles)
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