Where to get your EDM groove on for New Year's in Los Angeles

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Something of a modern-day Brigitte Bardot, Georgia May Jagger is the youngest daughter of supermodel Jerry Hall and Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Jagger. She’s taken a liking to modeling, with her signature asset: a gap between her two front teeth. (Henry S. Dziekan III / Getty Images for Sunglass Hut)

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Zoe Kravitz took the my-dad’s-a-rock-star-and-I’ll-be-one-too-thing to heart. As the lead singer of Elevator Flight, Zoe and her mates have performed on the same stages as the Roots and the Black Keys. She’s also acted in “X-Men: First Class” (2011), “After Earth” (2013) and “Californication.” ( Ilya S. Savenok / Getty Images for H&M)

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Kelly Osbourne was introduced to the world as a harshly honest, tatted teen on MTV’s reality show “The Osbournes.” She turned to music, launching two albums: “Shut Up” (2002) and “Sleeping in the Nothing” (2005), but has since evolved. She now gives style advice on E!’s “Fashion Police.” (Frazer Harrison / Getty Images for Variety)

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Early on, Lily Collins took an interest in journalism and acting. She wrote the “NY Confidential” column for Elle Girl and was a Nickelodeon TV correspondent. Now an actress, she’s appeared in “The Blind Side,” (2009), “Mirror Mirror” (2012) and “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones” (2013). (Abraham Caro Marin / AP Photo)

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Kimberly Stewart shot to fame as Paris Hilton’s club-hitting sidekick. These days, she’s a mother to young Delilah, whose father is Puerto Rican actor-producer Benicio Del Toro. (Danny Martindale / Getty Images)

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A paternity test revealed that Daisy Lowe was rock royalty. Since then she’s been handpicked by designer Karl Lagerfeld to walk the Chanel runway and later modeled for Nanette Lepore, Vivienne Westwood and Burberry. She also posed topless for Esquire and nude for Playboy. (Ben A. Pruchnie / Getty Images)

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Fashion designer Stella McCartney didn’t need to lean on her father’s Beatles fame. At 16, she interned with French fashion designer Christian Lacroix and went on to study fashion design in London. Stella became chief designer of French line Chloe and then launched her own popular label. (Peter Kramer / Getty Images for North America)

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Theodora began modeling at 14 years old for a Tommy Hilfiger campaign alongside Mick Jagger’s daughter, Lizzy. Since then she’s been snapped by world-renowned photographers and scored the covers of Glamour Italy, Nylon UK and Rolling Stone. Her younger sister Alexandra plays the model cards as well. (Henry S. Dziekan III / Getty Images for Sunglass Hut)

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Frances Bean Cobain’s mother, Courtney Love, supposedly used heroin during her pregnancy, so Frances was taken away. She also visited her father, Kurt Cobain, in rehab until he died. Love later disowned Frances, and photos of her taken by YSL’s Hedi Slimane also drew a spotlight. (Steve Granitz / WireImage)

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Peaches wrote and starred in a documentary about herself as a teenager, “Peaches Geldof: Teenage Mind” (2005). That was after photos of her using heroin hit the Web. In addition to taking care of her two sons, she hosted TV specials. Geldorf was found dead in her home on April 7. She was 25. ( Mike Marsland / WireImage)

By August Brown

Dec. 31, 2013 6 AM PT

Rarely a night goes by in L.A. without a few top-shelf electronic-music acts at shiny new venues competing for the spigot of EDM money in SoCal.

So what to do on the biggest night for dancing, drinking and four-on-the-floor abandon out of all of them? Here are your big, ravey options for this New Year’s Eve — as well as a few welcome exceptions from all that relentless bass thump.

The sprawling NYC disco combo Escort may be the ultimate live party band in 2013. Now that culture has caught up with its roller-rink flourishes, this gig alongside L.A. beatsmiths Nosaj Thing and Salva should be just the thing to make you feel good about 2014’s prospects. Standard Hotel, 8300 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. 9 p.m. https://www.standardhotels.com.

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One of Brazil’s finest musical exports, Sergio Mendes, throws a blowout of psychedelic samba alongside drum virtuoso Sheila E. and a bevy of dancers. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., L.A. 7 p.m. $70.50 to $197.

The past and present of heady house music team up for a long night of smarter-than-average merriment. John Digweed is a deep-house veteran; Claude VonStroke runs the rowdy and fabulous label Dirtybird. Exchange L.A., 618 S. Spring St., L.A. 9 p.m. $50. https://www.exchangela.com.

The gender-bendy electronica mainstay A Club Called Rhonda takes over the downtown L.A. Standard, encompassing four nightclubs and a morning-after day party. With Todd Edwards, Derrick May, Peanut Butter Wolf and more behind the decks, get a room if you can, because this will be a party worth sleeping over for. The Standard, 550 S. Flower St., L.A. 9 p.m. $30. https://www.rhondasays.net.

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German techno producer Alex Ridha has long been a festival staple under his alias Boys Noize, but he gets a fest of his own with OMFG NYE. He’ll play his set alongside house and dubstep peers like Feed Me, Madeon, GTA and lots more. Shrine Expo Hall, 655 W. Jefferson Blvd., L.A. 7:30 p.m. $40 to $60. https://www.goldenvoice.com.

Most L.A. NYE shows are about raving your face off until this rotten year disappears forever, but the Satellite is taking a more analog tactic. The Silver Lake venue hosts a longtime favorite act, the neo-psych shredders Entrance Band, to send us off into 2014. Catch Entrance Band now before bassist Paz Lenchantin starts her new day job as the latest member of the Pixies. The Satellite, 1717 Silver Lake Blvd., L.A. 8 p.m. $12. https://www.thesatellitela.com.

Create Nightclub, a new partnership between Insomniac and SBE, became the new 800-pound gorilla in local techno in 2013. They’re ringing in another year with appropriate panache, with the Dutch hard-house mainstay Laidback Luke behind the wheels of steel all night. Create, 6021 Hollywood Blvd., L.A. 9 p.m. $150. https://www.createnightclub.com.

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The Israeli dubstep dude Boregore was one of the first to move the genre from meticulous head-nods to wilding-out bass serrations. Naturally, he became a star for it, and he’ll hold what will likely be one of the loudest New Year’s countdowns in Hollywood. Hollywood Palladium, 6215 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. 9 p.m. $65. https://www.livenation.com.

Prohibition NYE will evoke the era of its title with live jazz and flapper-era dancing in the Art Deco environs of Union Station. But the night fast-forwards to the future when the L.A. electronica experimentalist Robert Delong hits the stage with his bevy of hand-modified controllers, noisemakers and digital whirligigs for one of the more physical dance shows you’ll see. Union Station, downtown L.A. 9 p.m. $150. https://www.prohibitionnye.com.

Avalon Hollywood has been a north star for late-night dance music culture in L.A. for years and has no intention of slowing down in 2014. Fedde Le Grand, Sultan and Ned Shepard hold down a long night of rousing house. Avalon, 1735 N. Vine St., L.A. 9 p.m. $75. https://www.avalonhollywood.com.

august.brown@latimes.com

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