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, founding guitarist for alternative rock band Cake and songwriter of the hit “The Distance,” has died after a brief illness, the band announced Saturday on social media. He was in his ...

Musing on his place in music history, Cake founder and frontman John McCrea said he reluctantly, or perhaps unintentionally, emerged from the post-grunge rubble to move rock forward. By the mid-’90s, ...