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Headliners of all stripes and styles are seizing the moment to take stages all around town, and that includes several major hotel performances. Whether they’re opening a hot new nightclub or just partying with old friends, musicians all over the city want to make it a night to remember.

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You may have noticed a significant omission in our last New Year’s Eve story—after all, how could we write a party round-up without including one of the biggest party cities of them all? But that’s only because what’s planned in Las Vegas for 2012 is so big, it required its own day. Herewith, our guide to the best of New Year’s Eve festivities in the hotels on the strip:

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Toro, Eel and Vegas are on the menu

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As it turns out, that trifecta of buildings on tap for The Strip in 2009 will offer hotel rooms fit for a sci-fi movie. Rooms in the Aria, Mandarin Oriental and the Harmon Hotel will be equipped with customizable settings for the television, music and curtains. Feel free to set the music and the television on blast for your triumphant 4:00am return from the Blackjack table, or instruct the curtains to never open when you’re in the room, should you choose to sin in this city.

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