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 ...

Greg Brown, a founding member of Sacramento alt-rock outfit Cake, has died. Friends honored the guitarist, who wrote the band ...

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 ...

Greg Brown, a founding guitarist in the band Cake who wrote their biggest hit song “The Distance,” has died. “It is with ...

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.

The sole writer of “The Distance,” Brown also performed in Deathray and collaborated with Rivers Cuomo ...