Greg Brown, whose grungy guitar licks helped propel the band Cake, which he helped found, to the top of the alternative rock charts in the mid-1990s, and whose irony-laced lyrics for their hit song ...

The founding guitarist of Sacramento’s quintessential rock band has passed away after a brief illness. Greg Brown helped start Cake with lead singer John McCrea in the 1990s, and was the songwriter ...

Laid-back California rockers Cake are back — and it’s not just in those snappy new iPod nano commercials, featuring their 2001 single, “Short Skirt, Long Jacket.” Scroll down to hear “Sick of You,” ...

Paige Parham Cake played Fayetteville’s Arkansas Music Pavilion Thursday. Cake has always been a band that people have trouble describing. They’re not rock, or blues, or country, nor rockabilly nor ...

One thing is unmistakable about Cake’s new album: it’s a new Cake album. There is something about the band — a combination of John McCrea’s ironically droning vocals, their twanging guitars and ...

After two decades together, Cake just reached a milestone. The Sacramento band’s newest release, “Showroom of Compassion,” debuted in January at No. 1 on The Billboard Top 200. “We worked hard on this ...

After experiencing Cake's compelling set on the side of the stage a generation ago in Philadelphia, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne gushed: “There is no band like Cake.” Cake was a perfect act to ...

Guitarist Greg Brown, who played on Cake's first two albums, has died following a brief illness, the band announced Saturday.

In our endless appetite for the consumption of culture, to loudly have disdain for something is worth as much as earnest appreciation for the form. When you’re young it’s often especially important to ...