Cake live in concert.
ON TOUR

Cake

36
critic concert reviews
rock

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

76
%
Based on 
36
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
74
%
Based on 
4
critic concert
reviews

Real Live Certified  

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Critic Consensus

Based on 36 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Cake is rated as an entertaining live performer, with many notable strengths. Cake concert reviews describe live shows and performances as cathartic, eccentric, and lively.

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Latest Release

What We Do - Single (20 September 2024)

Artist Info

Genre
rock
Origin
Sacramento, United States (1992 - present)
Bio
CAKE is an alternative rock band which formed in 1991 in Sacramento, California, United States. The band consists of John McCrea (vocals, guitar), Xan McCurdy (guitar), Gabe Nelson (bass), Vincent DiFiore (trumpet, keyboards, vocals) and Paulo Baldi (drums).
Has Performed With
Ben Folds

Critic Concert Reviews

Houston Press (USA)

September 12, 2024
%
Cake Wasn't Left Out in the Rain and Houston Fans Rejoiced

Strange Carolinas (USA)

August 8, 2024
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CAKE brought their An Evening With CAKE tour to Charlotte's Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre on August 7th. The venue was packed and the crowd was ready for a killer show!

Glide Magazine (USA)

June 25, 2024
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Green River Festival Sets Sweet Tone With Fleet Foxes, Bonny Light Horseman, Cake, Joy Oladokun & More

Local Spins (USA)

August 8, 2019
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The sardonic California alt-rock band charmed a capacity Meijer Gardens crowd Wednesday with quirky instrumentation, trademark dry wit and a mix of old and somewhat-new songs. Review, photos.

The Skinny (UK)

January 29, 2019
80
%
Ending a seven-year silence, California's CAKE play a cathartic set at QMU as part of this year's Celtic Connections festival

Berkeley B-Side (USA)

December 19, 2018
%
Celebrating with CAKE

Exclaim (Canada)

September 20, 2015
90
%
But since for a while there in the mid-to-late 1990s they were inescapably part of my alt-rock universe I wandered over to catch their set feeling a kind of indifferent nostalgia.

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