What started as a knee-jerk reaction to the "big dumb rock" popular in the late 20th century has blossomed into a long and fruitful career with staple tunes such as "The Distance" and "Short ...

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, ...