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 best rock songs have been written under pressure, including these gems that were written when the band in question was about to break up.

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 ...

Singer-songwriter Ricky Manning was considering quitting music after a period of financial hardship. His career was revitalized after his breakup song, "Someone Else & Jesus," went viral on TikTok.

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

Brown, who is credited as the sole writer of the Sacramento band’s hit song, “The Distance,” founded Cake in 1991 with ...

I don’t like to sing songs where I don’t believe the lyrics,” said Slick of the Starship hit, written by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren.

Decades later, Bob Dylan’s most deceptively tender song still hides raw heartbreak beneath the surface, You’re Gonna Make Me ...