Traveling music
	Pop that made the grade in 2001 by MATT ASHARE

Drums & wires The year's best rock and jazz and more by JIM MACNIE

Local Anesthesia: Reasons to be cheerful The year's best local music by BOB GULLA

No Aerosmith, again? Having no tried-and-true-headliner supershows this New Year's Eve, we're left with a slew of clubland dates -- with one notable exception. That would be Boston's own three-piece Dispatch, a group who've gained a loyal national following by bridging the worlds of jam-band chops and heavy alterna-rock hooks -- Blind Melon meet Phish, so to speak. Their latest, a double-disc live album entitled Gut the Van (on their own Bomber Records label), hit shelves in November. They've been playing to large crowds at the FleetBoston Pavilion and the Orpheum; this New Year's Eve, they'll try to start their own annual tradition by throwing an all-ages bash at the Tsongas Arena (978-848-6900) in Lowell.

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