The musician was featured on the band's first two albums in the mid-1990s.

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 ...

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

Greg Brown, a founding member of the 90s slacker rock band Cake, has died. The band, behind such songs as "The Distance," ...

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 ...

Guitarist, who played on band's first two albums including 1996's Fashion Victim, dies following "a brief illness" ...

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,” ...

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 ...

Greg Brown, a founding member of Cake and songwriter of ‘The Distance,’ died after a ‘brief illness,’ the band announced on ...