This week the Glass will be anything but empty.

Start your weekend celebration early this month at The Empty Glass on Charleston, WV’s East End. Thursday, February 1 Enter The Haggis (pictured above) will add Celtic flavoring to their rock stylings.

The Tom Batchler Band with members of Rasta Rafiki and The Joint Cheifs take the stage Friday, February 2 at the Empty Glass.

Saturday night Feb. 3 be ready to get your groove on with The Boogie Hustlers. The Hustler’s will provide listeners at the Glass with a soul-filled music experience. Poogie Bell (of The Poogie Bell Band and former drummer for Erykah Badu) is the Hustler’s producer.

– Jessica Harrah

Threefold Theory, 23 Rainy Days, and Echovalve  are playing Friday February 2 at the Sound Factory in Charleston, WV.

If you fail to make it to the Factory on the 2nd don’t fret it. Threefold Theory will be back in their home town of Huntington, WV Saturday February 3 to play at Sharkley’s Cafe.

The guys of Threefold Theory have been busy touring the country and working on their upcoming CD “Into The Fray” so look for that.

– Jessica Harrah

Guitarist Dave Clendenin

Guitarist Craig Dickinson

Drummer Eric Seckman

Bassist Roadblock

Lead singer Lee Harrah

Stone Ka-Tet (pictured above), Relative Obscurity, and Black Market Redemption are scheduled to rock fans at the Blue Parrot in Charleston, WV Friday February 2.

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The Burt Reynolds Death Metal Experiment is coming to the Sound Factory Friday, January 26. Fans of Byzantine may recognize Burt (aka Skip). When Skip is not performing his one man act TBRDME he is busy slapping bass beats for the band Byzantine.

Stone Ka-Tet (pictured) and Voices of Anatole will be rocking fans at the Factory begining at 10 p.m.

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Singer Josh Bailey, joined fellow bandmates of StychNtyme on stage at the Blue Parrot after a short leave of absence. Singer Lee Harrah, of Stone Ka-Tet, had been filling in for Baily during his brief absence.

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Zeroking (pictured) comes to town with Noizbox and StychNTyme Saturday January 20 at the Blue Parrot in downtown Charleston, WV.

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Huntington punk rockers The Digits, will join The Concept, B-Rude and Meuwl at the Blue Parrot in Charleston, WV Friday January 19. The show will begin after 10.

If garage rock is more your style head over to the Empty Glass on Charleston’s eastend and check out WestByGod Treasure Cat, a band from Morgantown.

– Jessica Harrah

Charleston-based rockers The Concept are featured on the latest webcast of ‘Radio Free Charleston’ at thegazz.com

West Virginia’s wildest, most original webcast, Radio Free Charleston, is back with a vengeance with its first new show of 2007 at thegazz.com. Show 13 features the accomplished, often twisted animation of Frank Panucci, brother of ‘Radio Free’ host Rudy Panucci, including puppets run wild. There’s also some spacey, sea-shanty music by Charleston-based busker duo Martytranny’s Collective Pulse, performing a song titled “Breathing Banshee” (and you’ll hear why). Plus, drink in “Guitar Pick in My Kool-Aid” by Charleston rockers The Concept. (It’s a D’Addario light-medium .027 mm pick, to be specific). Watch the show by clicking here or heading to the gazzTV page, where we archive all Charleston Gazette webcasts.

Know the area club scene? Do you have wide-ranging tastes in music? More importantly — can you write worth a damn? Thegazz.com is on the hunt for some new additions to its LocalMusic blog. You’ll cover live and local music coming to area clubs and stages. You’ll keep readers informed on upcoming shows in the Charleston-Huntington area. You’ll even get paid, if you become a regular contributor.

Send two or more samples of how you’d write about music to gazz@wvgazette.com, with the Subject line: LocalMusic blogging. Include a daytime phone. And, yes, you should reside in the area and know the clubs and stages of which ye write.

The Concept (pictured) will join Meuwl, B Rude, and The Librarians at the Empty Glass  in Charleston, WV January 11.

– Photo by Charlie Dotson

– Jessica Harrah