After seven years, Cake owes its alternative-rock audience an explanation on new album Comfort Eagle. Is the band a smart lab rat experimenting with sounds that sometimes go bad or a Dr. Demento ...

When Cake emerged with 1994's Motorcade Of Generosity, the Sacramento band sounded like a fresh-for-the-moment novelty, and certainly not a group likely to be turning out a high-profile fourth album ...

On road trips when I was a kid, my family had a lineup of road tunes in the CD changer including Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Greatest Hits and Paul Simon’s Graceland. Around the time I started ...

The most underrated band in rock is back. Cake, the quirky pop-rockers from Sacramento, returned to the music scene with the release of the album "Comfort Eagle" last Tuesday. Unless you closely ...

Cake’s droll blend of melody, irony and postmodern romance remains intact, despite the exit of half the original band to feisty offshoot Deathray. Singer John McRae decorates his Beat-style phrasing ...