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 ...

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 ...