The beat goes on
	The best albums of 2002 by MATT ASHARE

The big dent The year's best rock and jazz and more by JIM MACNIE

Local Anesthesia: Best in show The year's top local music by BOB GULLA

On the very day the Boston punk supergroup Avoid One Thing released their first album, their drummer died. Dave Karcich -- who commuted from his home in Brooklyn to rehearse with the other members, Mighty Mighty Bosstones bassist Joe Gittleman, former Mung/Darkbuster guitarist Paul Delano, and Raging Teens guitarist Amy Griffin -- suffered a brain aneurysm on April 2 of this year and died on April 5. Karcich was well known and loved in Boston. Prior to Avoid One Thing, he'd played drums for the ska-punk bands the Pilfers and Spring Heeled Jack -- and at the time of his death, members of those two bands had coalesced in the Boston punk outfit Lost City Angels. This Sunday, a bunch of Karcich's friends are getting together for a memorial gig in his honor at Toad's Place (203-562-5589) in New Haven. There'll be sets by the Lost City Angels and Avoid One Thing; an all-star Spring Heeled Jack tribute band featuring members of the Bosstones and LCA plus members of Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, and others; and a raffle to benefit a scholarship fund that's been established in his name.

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