Emo/punk vets Samiam are back with their first album in 12 years, Stowaway, out today via Pure Noise. It finds them sticking to their classic sound, and it’s loaded with rippers. For a much deeper ...

Last night's show was a mindfuck of the best variety. Berkeley band Samiam have been playing a unique brand of pop punk since the late '80s, and they have experienced their share of intraband strife ...

With 2000’s Astray, it seemed ’90s emo pioneer Samiam was moving into the next millennium with a simmering, almost dignified indie-rock sound. Then came silence—that is, until 2006’s murky, ...

After releasing Astray in 2000 – which has grown to be perhaps Samiam's most well-regarded album – the band sort of went away, breaking up but not really breaking up, no longer concerned with being a ...