Cake Background Information
Cake is a popular band from Sacramento, California that was formed in 1991. Their music is often classified as alternative or indie rock. However, it combines diverse musical genres, like pop, funk, jazz, ska, rap, and country. The band’s music work features droll lyrics rife with word play and syncopation, guitar riffs, and a solo trumpet. Their unique approach to composition, instrumentation, and arrangement has been compared to They Might Be Giants, The Cars, Talking Heads, Soul Coughing, and Camper Van Beethoven.
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The band headlined the Unlimited Sunshine Tour festival in 2002 among popular music bands, including De La Soul, The Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, Latin techno fusion band Kinky, and bluegrass band The Hackensaw Boys. The following year, the group brought back the tour with country singer Charlie Louvin, garage rockers The Detroit Cobras, Cheap Trick, and a return performance from The Hackensaw Boys.
Cake’s 5th record, entitled Pressure Chief, was released in October 2004. John McCrea discussed this release together with Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air in early 2005.
Cake has announced that they are now working on their 2 new albums: a live album, entitled Live at the Crystal Palace; and B-Sides and Rarities that will feature covers of Barry White’s “Never, Never Gonna Give You Up” and Black Sabbath's “War Pigs”.
The current line-up of the band includes John McCrea (on lead vocals, organ, acoustic guitar, vibraslap), Vince DiFiore( on trumpet, keyboards, percussion), Xan McCurdy (on electric guitar), Gabe Nelson (on bass guitar), and Paulo Baldi (on drums, percussion).
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