Choose your own NYE adventure! Want some steamy soul revival suitable for dark corner make-out sessions? Ring in 2013 with Pickwick at the Showbox at the Market. If you’re craving a noisy and chaotic punk-rock bash, Monogamy Party are headlining the Comet. For some 206 hiphop that’ll make you sweat through your cardigan, check out Fresh Espresso with Grynch and Keyboard Kid at the Neptune. And that’s just the beginning of your options! Pick your poison at thestranger.com/music, find someone cute to kiss at midnight, and start 2013 off on the right foot. (See thestranger.com/music for more info)

Megan Seling is The Stranger's managing editor. She mostly writes about hockey, snacks, and music. And sometimes her dog, Johnny Waffles.