Har Mar Superstar, the pint-sized R&B crooner from Minneapolis known for his love of spandex and the ladies, returns with his third album, The Handler, on September 14th.

After moving to Los Angeles, Superstar set about recording the effort at the start of the year with producer John Fields (Pink, Andrew W.K.). "We met one night at a bar," he recounts of his introduction to the fellow Minnesotan. "I went over to his studio the next day and by the time I left we had written most of the music for [songs] "Body Request," "DUI" and one other so it was like, 'I guess this is the dude I should do it with.' "

During the two months they spent laying down the album's twelve tracks in a converted Hollywood garage, Superstar also found time to collaborate with Yeah Yeah Yeah's frontwoman Karen O, who appears on "Cut Me Up." "She just came over to the garage one day and after three hours we had all the lyrics and the hooks and it was all recorded. We worked really well together," Superstar says.

Yeah Yeah Yeah's guitarist Nick Zinner also popped in to lay down some bass and guitar as well as co-write "As" and "Back That Camel Up," which features a vocal performance from Australian pop chanteuse Holly Valance. "She had been saying in press that she wanted to work with me," Superstar says of the slinky songstress. "She's the new Kylie Minogue. She was on Neighbors [an Australian soap opera], which is where Kylie comes from. She's a pin up, but she's a super girl. She's Australian so she knows how to party and hang out."

Also turning up on the record are New Power Generation sticksman Michael Bland, female hip-hop trio Northern State, the Attractions drummer Pete Thomas, and muli-instrumentalist Matt Mahaffey of Self.

Superstar will hit the road this summer for some dates including the Village Voice's Siren Fest at New York City's Coney Island on July 17th and England's Reading and Leeds weekend (August 27-29) before heading out on a U.S. tour this fall. He'll have some new costumes for the outing, including extreme low-rider trousers and gloves with mirrors on them. And for the women who bring underwear to throw at him on stage, Superstar says he has plans.

"When I first started going on tour and I got panties thrown at me, I thought it was hilarious," he says. "I thought there could be some sweet art project I could make at some point, like the largest ball of collected panties or you know how you press butterflies in books and frame them? Just do that with the gross panties."