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Q&A interview with Carolina Liar's Chad Wolf

Date published: 4/10/2008

BY BASSEY ETIM-EDET

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It's an old cliche that the music industry can eat you up and spit you out. So how does a good-natured American and his band of Swedes survive in such a corrupt business? For Carolina Liar, contacts with legendary producer Max Martin, airplay on a hit show like "The Hills" and a willingness to forgo health insurance are a good start.

The Atlantic Records up-and-comers are currently on a radio promotional tour that will send them through Richmond next Wednesday. The band, whose song "Coming to Terms" was recently featured again on "The Hills," will also make the show's soundtrack again this Monday. Though no tour dates are currently scheduled, they're sure to pass through soon to promote their album, to be released May 20.

Frontman Chad Wolf spoke with Weekender recently about how a nice guy from Charles-ton, S.C., was branded a Carolina Liar:

Congratulations on getting "Coming to Terms" on "The Hills." Did you watch that episode?

Thank you so much. That came as a big surprise for us and it helped. We went from getting 90 to 2,500 hits on MySpace in one day. The fun thing is that we really hadn't seen much of the show before, so when we heard about it we were like "Yeah, OK." We'll take every bit of help we can get. It's weird seeing something you've worked on in your bedroom on a television show on MTV.

How did the band get its start?

I got a chance to go to Sweden for the summer, and on the plane ride over, I wrote the lyrics for "Coming to Terms." That song got so much attention that Max Martin heard it and called me at midnight on the day I had just quit my job and said, "Man, if you could write two more songs like 'Coming to Terms'" maybe there's something I can do." That's where it started, and that was in September of 2006.

What is "Coming to Terms" about?

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Date published: 4/10/2008