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The Cab's Alex DeLeon and Chad Wolf of Carolina Liar are freaking us out with their eerie separated-at-birth-ness. Alex just needs to exercise his right to grow some excess facial hair and get a couple highlights, and the two of them could easily pull some hi-larious Parent Trap hijinx.

+ Watch The Cab's "One of Those Nights" video here, and check out Carolina Liar's "I'm Not Over" video, and see what Chad's got in common with Heidi Montag.

+ Plus: previous Wonder Twins -- Pete Wentz and...

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There's stuck-in-your-head bad, and then there's stuck-in-your-head good. And, happily, we've had the hypnotic, looping, guitarmonies that carry the chorus of "I'm Not Over" -- Chad Wolf's breakout hit, which you've probably heard during major drama on The Hills -- practically lifting us off the sidewalk for a month now. Thankfully, for the sake of our sanity, we've finally got his whole album, Coming to Terms, to listen to.

Hear the whole Carolina Liar album a week early on "The Leak," and check out our exclusive interview with Chad Wolf.

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Last month, we posted Carolina Liar's debut video, "I'm Not Over," and some behind-the-scenes footage of the band. That, coupled with the exposure the band received all season long on The Hills, prompted Buzzworthy readers, Hills heads, and new fans of the up-and-coming band to email us, asking where they can find out more about rootsy singer-songwriter Chad Wolf and his band, Carolina Liar.

So, we invited Chad Wolf over to Fort Buzzworthy, where the sweeter-than-Tupelo-honey Southern rocker gave us the abridged version of his musical journey and ascent up the L.A. totem pole to The Hills -- from playing coffee shops to a chance encounter with producer Max Martin (the genius "fixer" behind smash hits by Britney Spears, Robyn and Kelly Clarkson), to scoring a spot on the soundtrack to all that delectable, circuitous Spencer-Heidi-Lauren-Audrina drama.

Check out his exclusive Buzzworthy video interview, see more photos of Chad and Carolina Liar here, and get more Hills dirt on the Remote Control blog.

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With Spencer now out of the apartment and She-Spencer partying with Lauren, the latest Hills drama involves Heidi encroaching upon the sacred ground that is Audrina and Lauren's apartment -- dudes, Audrina needs to learn that home turf is sacred and you don't let the enemy in on sacred ground. (Even if they do just need to pick up their cheesy photo box and gilded mirror.)

Lauren might argue that where Heidi goes, deceit isn't far behind ('specially if Spencer's right behind Heidi). So, it almost makes too much sense that the song playing during that scene where Audrina and Lauren discuss Heidi's visit (so tense! so awkward!) was written by a band with a shady-sounding name -- Carolina Liar. (Hills music supervisors, you done did it again, you dirty dogs, you!)

Carolina Liar is South Carolina-born roots rocker Chad Wolf (pictured above), who played L.A. coffeehouses (not unlike the ones where Lauren's constantly picking up those iced coffees) for years before a chance encounter with Swedish power-producer Max Martin, who booked him on a flight to Sweden, which led to Wolf's forming a band backed by impeccably dressed Swedes, which found them all back in an L.A. house, where Wolf and co. wrote and recorded an album's worth of introspective yet accessible modern rock songs (think a grittier Maroon 5) several of which have landed on The Hills.

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