Sunday: the Sabbath. A day of rest; but not for the hardest working man in fresh soul music: Har Mar Superstar. This dude's got some righteous magic in his music, and you can feel him Sunday night, December 29th, when he turns Columbus, Ohio's Newport Music Hall into a house of raw, steamy sexuality. The party starts at 7 PM, with southern rockers Trans Am opening up. They'll get you all whiskeyed up like West Virginian foreplay. Then Har Mar will come in and rock your G-Spot like the OBGYN formerly known as Prince.

Ah, Sweden: hot blondes in bikinis, meatballs, that marble-mouthed chef from The Muppet Show,.. and five really pissed off dudes who rock so hard and loud, your head is too scared to ask for aspirin. If it did, it would just look like a pussy, and one of these lads might beat the Swedish piss out of you.

Ever have one of those days where you wake up screaming in serious fucking pain, because, while you slept, someone snuck into your room, split open every vein in your body, and filled 'em with table salt? That's what "Romper Stomper" feels like. "Romper Stomper" is the first song on the Transplants' self-titled Hellcat debut. It comes out of nowhere with such fierce brutality, you start to like pain. And you ask for more. So the second song, "Tall Cans in the Air", kicks in, and now you're getting the shit beat out of you, bare-knuckle, by a gang of old school Jamaican Rude Boys.