New Year’s Eve, and the days leading up to it, are some of the most jam-packed days of any calendar year. Virtually every large-scale touring band stages some sort of year-end celebration, normally consisting of a run of shows in a particular city. Of course, that means that every year, fans need to make some difficult choices regarding their choice of shows (and locations) to ring in the coming year. Thankfully, we live in the “Couch Tour Era”, so making your New Year’s plans has become a significantly less FOMO-inducing call.

As usual, Phish will be webcasting all four nights (12/28-12/31) of their New Year’s run at Madison Square Garden via their streaming platform, LivePhish. The String Cheese Incident will also officially webcast all three nights of their New Year’s run at the historic Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY (on December 29th, 30th, and 31st, respectively) via nugs.tv. Umphrey’s McGee also verified that their NYE run at Denver’s Fillmore Auditorium will be couch tour-ready, with their own shows on December 29th, 30th, and 31st set to be webcast via TourGigs. The Disco Biscuits will be live streaming their four-night run at PlayStation Theatre via Youtube on December 28, 29, 30 & 31.

Both SCI and UM switched things up from years past for their New Year’s plans this year. Cheese is heading east to New York instead of staging their usual local celebration in Colorado, and Umphrey’s McGee is hitting the Rockies for after bringing their NYE run back to their hometown of Chicago for the first time in a decade last year. The Disco Biscuits took a year off from NYC last year, when they performed the Tabernacle in ATL, after a four-year streak, but will return triumphantly this time around. Phish’s “long-awaited” return to The Garden is, of course, somewhat tongue-in-cheek. They customarily do New Year’s in NYC, and just finished an historic run of 13 straight shows at the arena this past summer.

To order your String Cheese Incident NYE run webcast, head here.

To order your Umphrey’s McGee NYE run webcast, head here.

To order your Phish NYE run webcast, head here.

[Cover photo – Trey: Chad Anderson; Bayliss: Keith Griner; Kang: Aaron Bradley]