If you still haven't decided what to do for New Year’s and you plan on drinking long into the morning, we have a suggestion: The incorrigible Misshapes are hosting a night of serious debauchery at Santos Party House—a new 8,000-square-foot venue on the border between Chinatown and Tribeca. Andrew WK, Gang Gang Dance, Lissy Trullie, Hearts ...

STILL HERE? For those messy-haired young rebellious types skipping family Christmas to shack up with that tortured Brazilian video-artist heir they met at Santos (“recession” being but a buzzword for blameless unemployment!), potty-mouthed rappers the Wu-Tang Clan play at Hammerstein Ballroom. [Wu-Tang Clan at Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street, 7 p.m., www.ticketmaster.com] mbryan@observer.com

Black Mountain, Stormy High The tag "functional art collective", attached to Vancouver's Black Mountain thanks to the band's numerous side projects, has an unfortunate ring to it. It conjures up images of beardy recluses and terrible music, when in fact, save for the prevalence of facial hair, this group are as far from po-faced as it's possible ...

Staten Island's Wu-Tang Clan started off as a hip-hop group, but became something like an empire - and like all empires, eventually had to fall. A grand notion, but then Wu-Tang were a clan on a grand scale. A kind of diametric opposite to the unctuous grooves of gangsta rap, in the early-90s the uniqueness of their approach was exciting ...