new year's eve report

Continuing our tour of New Year's Eve events, we now take you to Atlanta and beyond, an area that experienced a strong showing from bands throughout the course of the night. Even without the usual suspect (Widespread Panic) holding down the main spot in Atlanta, the area had ample musical selections to choose from. Our first video features one of our favorite bands performing one of our favorite songs.

Check out more videos from the dirty, dirty south after the jump

Going into New Year's Eve, there was probably no other show as highly anticipated as My Morning Jacket's first trip to New York City's Madison Square Garden. To play at this famed venue is a clear sign that a band is taking that next step in the music industry. If you can sell out the Garden, you've made it – and MMJ did just that. Jim James and the boys brought in white tuxedos, capes, balloons, and a couple of their favorite friends and cover songs over the course of their multi-hour, two-set show. Especially pleasing was Nicole Atkins' second set guest appearance on Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton's "Islands In The Stream," which is featured in this YouTube clip below.

Check out the rest of the setlist, stream the entire show and watch some videos after the jump

New Year's Eve featured a fair share of prominent shows around the U.S. We plan to bring you video and setlists from several other NYE sets over the next few days, but first let's start with one from The Avett Brothers' performance at Charlotte, NC's Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. As usual, their setlist was impressive, but the true standout has to be this piano-laden cover of Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman."

Check out The Avett Brothers full NYE setlist after the jump