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Cake's New Album Goes Solar
Green Daily — Filed under: Celebrities, Alternative Energy Alternative rock band, Cake, will be producing its latest album using solar power. The roof of their Sacramento studio is covered in solar panels. Trumpet player Vince DiFiore estimates that the band only uses 10% of the energy generated during rehearsals which sends the excess back into the grid. The band used Borrego Solar Systems to transform their studio. Solar power is only one small step the band has taken to curb their environmental impact. John McCrea has been known to give away trees to audience ...

The Icing on Cake's New Album? A Solar Sonic Studio (Interview)
Planet Green Articles Feed — Vince DiFiore has a day job playing trumpet, keyboards and providing percussion for a band called Cake . The emphasis is on day, since Vince and the rest of the band are recording album No. 6 in a studio powered entirely by the sun. The house, in Sacramento, California, has been fitted with 13 solar panels by a company called Borrego Solar . Remember that name, Borrego. The California company gave the band a good deal on the equipment. Vince recently chatted with Planet Green about the new album, working with photovoltaics, and how all of his band's songs are actually "bummers." Cake is known for high-powered tunes like a ...