This Friday, Great Scott will play host to a Boston Hassle / RTT Presents show that celebrates both milestones and shiny brand new things. After all, in order to achieve a milestone, one needs to have at some point created a shiny, brand new thing.

First, a tip of the hat to Reports. They’ll be marking their ten year anniversary of being a band. That’s pretty impressive. As anyone who’s ever been in a band will tell you, keeping something going for more than a few years can be a feat in itself. Making a decade of (as their Bandcamp labels it) “messy pop” is well worth a pat on the back and night on the town. That’s actually a pretty apt description for the kind of music Reports plays, too. Melodies abound, presented at high energy, garage rock pace. To mark this auspicious occasion, they’ll be releasing a split (physically, as it’s already up streaming here) containing two previously unreleased tracks.

Friday’s festivities will also feature halfsour, the band providing the other half of the music on said split. Having put out their self-titled debut EP back in 2013, this newer batch material has an almost sans-synth new wave punk aesthetic. Chiming, frenetically strummed guitars and driving lo-fi drums and bass presented with a sense of no-frills-straightforwardness. Guitarist Matthew Mara and bassist Zoe Wyner split vocal duty. When Wyner is on the mic you get an almost shoegaze legato quality which adds a sense of dreaminess to the proceedings, whereas Mara’s distorted yelp changes it up and adds bite. A fun, dynamic group with elements of Britpop and garage rock.

Check out their track “Vegetable Animal Monotone” on our February Localz Only Mix Tape!

Also performing that night is special-guest and Teen-Beat founder Mark Robinson (Unrest, Cotton Candy, Flin Flon, Air Miami) Having recently released The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to his STO film series, this Mark’s first solo release in over 10 years (hey! It’s a theme!). STO is a short film miniseries that, according to the Tean-Beat, focuses on “unique and interesting interior spaces, almost always retail stores”. We’ve posted Episode 4: “Cambridge Typewriter” below.

STO 4: Cambridge Typewriter from Teen-Beat on Vimeo.

Rounding out the lineup is the relatively newly formed power pop group Laika’s Orbit (who just topped my list of favorite “bands named after Russian space dogs”). Check out their track “Just Perfect” below!