Emotion Is Dead

And on the show this week, we have Joshua Fiedler, guitarist of The Juliana Theory, and the mastermind behind Low Rev, his new solo project, who just released an excellent new LP on Equal Vision Records called It's Hard to Lie to Strangers.

We talked to Josh about his early days growing up in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and forming The Juliana Theory, the emo rock band that got started in the late '90s and released two LPs, Understand This is a Dream and Emotion Is Dead, before grabbing the attention of Epic Records and releasing their 2002 LP, Love.

Unfortunately, in a tale all too common from these days, their A&R rep was let go from Epic Records, and the label stopped supporting the record and the band, so they got out of their contract and released one more LP, Deadbeat Sweet Heartbeat, before disbanding in 2006.

But thankfully, the story did not end there.

[laughs] Yes, it was definitely a shock.

Yes.

So moving into Emotion Is Dead, we've got a bigger audience, we've got a bigger budget, I assume.

How is everything? Is the band happy? Are you happy? Is this, uh...