Nectar’s hosting a very solid hip hop show and CD release tonight featuring Mic Crenshaw in support of his new record, Thinking Out Loud (link takes you to feature story), Serge Severe, whose latest album Concrete Technique also just dropped, the gentlemen in Animal Farm, Orbitron, whose album B-Boy Universal is pretty damn good, and DJ Wicked. That starts at 9 p.m. and costs $7. A bargain for what you’re getting!Elephant Rider, Night Horse, Ancestors at Sunset Tavern, 9 p.m., $6You can download Night Horse and Ancestors mp3s here.It’s one week into the New Year and thanks to those lofty resolutionsyou made, you probably feel like shit. Either the new diet is makingcardboard seem like a savory option at this point, or your legs areready to snap off from your newly-adapted masochistic exercise routine.What better way to break the resolutions or simply take a night off totemporarily regain your swagger than an evening with local outfitElephant Rider (pictured courtesy of Danielle N. Gibeson)? Though thestraightforward trio brands themselves somewhere in the lexicon of”blues” and “metal,” truly the only label needed to convey theseductively simple appeal of Elephant Rider is “rock-n-fucking-roll.”Let the stutter of their feedback ease your tired muscles; let thepunk syncopation of the drums help you question why you everthought you could live without tallboys. RAECHEL SIMS