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  • After a four-year hiatus and almost as many years of breakup rumors, Bloc Party at long last debuted new tunes from their forthcoming plainly titled fourth album, Four, for a U.S. audience this week. On August 1 at uber-producer Bob Clearmountain's Berkeley Street studio, at a private showcase hosted by Los Angeles tastemaker radio KCRW, the band performed 11 songs (nine from the new album, out August 21)...and during a mid-show interview with KCRW DJ Jason Bentley, the band gently attempted to put those aforementioned rumors to rest.

    "The time apart made us realize just how much we love each other. That's the diplomatic answer," dryly quipped frontman Kele Okereke--although he did his best avoid Bentley's further interrogations regarding band relations. ("We're not at liberty to talk about that, because don't have all our lawyers here," he cheekily explained.) Instead, Kele made jokes about such unrelated topics as the Olympics (apparently if he were competing at the Games in his

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  • [Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images]The following conversation with late Grateful Dead guitarist Garcia took place in the dressing room of the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum prior to his band's performance on February 24, 1992. It was to be part of a large feature on the band for a weekly entertainment publication but, oddly, that publication's editors decided to forgo the feature before the piece was ever written. To commemorate what would have been Garcia's 70th birthday, here Y! Music presents that 1992 conversation in full.

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    It's been interesting hearing your new song "So Many Roads," particularly because it seems so unusually autobiographical.

    Well, it's [longtime lyricist Robert] Hunter writing me, from my point of view, you know what I mean? We've been working together for so long that he knows what I know. The song is full of references to things that have to do with me. It's got a line in there about "Winin' Boy," which is an old Jellyroll Morton tune. Back when I was a folkie, I spent a month working on the

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  • If you're anywhere near San Francisco, CA, surely you can't even walk down the street without hearing about this year's 10th annual "Jerry Day" commemorating the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia. Since 2002, Deadheads have come together the first weekend of August to pay tribute to their idol on his birthday, August 1. The good folks down at Grateful Dead member Bob Weir's TRI Studios is headlining this year's festivities with "Move Me Brightly", a tribute concert to celebrate the rock legend's 70th birthday from his hometown in the Bay. And us good folks down at Y! Music will be streaming the entire show live!

    Click here to watch "Move Me Brightly", TRI Studio's tribute to Jerry Garcia LIVE Friday Aug 3, 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

    San Francisco will be celebrating Jerry Day with events around the city, including a charity fundraiser, a concert at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater (duh), a Grateful Dead movie screening, and even a tribute night at AT&T Park for the SF Giant's game complete

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  • The career path of Canadian singer-songwriter is one of the most intriguing in pop music: Her music is all over the place.

    Beginning with her debut album Whoa, Nelly!, released in 2000 and filled with hit singles like "I'm Like A Bird" and "Turn Off The Light," Furtado's been directly in the public eye, garnering Grammy nominations and praise for what at the time sounded like clever and sophisticated music with a pure pop base. But with her follow-up album Folklore—and the eye-opening collaborations she recorded with the likes of Jurassic 5, Paul Oakenfeld, and Colombia's Juanes—it became evident that the singer had musical roots much more adventurous than the norm.  With her massively successful set Loose, a 2006 set owing much to her work with producer Timbaland, the singer topped charts all over the world with such tracks as "Promiscuous" and "Maneater" and seemed squarely headed for the top ranks of pop diva-dom.

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  • Death Cab For Cutie were the headliners for Yahoo!'s All-Star concert Sunday at Crossroads in Kansas City, Missouri. Before taking the stage, bassist Nick Harmer and drummer Jason McGerr sat down to talk to Yahoo! Music about life on the road.

    [Related: Death Cab For Cutie Crossroad Photo Gallery]

    Harmer and McGerr joked about learning to play in the sweltering heat and being on the road for more than 15 months. Such a demanding schedule does not afford them much time to check out shows of their favorite bands. McGerr looks forward to sharing concert bills with his friends in other groups, and Harmer anticipates returning to Japan's Summer Sonic Festival and seeing comedian Louis C.K. in December.

    When their tour wraps in August, McGerr plans to take some downtime before working on their next project.

    Harmer is expecting a great 2013. It will mark the 10th anniversary of their fourth album, Transatlanticism, and could possible see a release of some of their shows with the Magik*Magik

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  • Apl.de.ap of The Black Eyed PeasIf you have no clue about Filipino culture there are three important things you need to know: 1) There's always enough food to feed a small nation at any Filipino party 2) we're raised with a strong sense of Utang na loob (debt of the inside), showing gratitude for one's success by "paying it forward" to others in the community and 3) music is in our blood, as evidenced by this past Sunday's Apl.de.ap Takes You to the Philippines - A Celebration of Global Filipino Music at the world-famous Hollywood Bowl.

    Allan Pineda Lindo Jr., better known as Apl.de.ap of the Grammy-winning group The Black Eyed Peas, conceptualized this historic event as part of radio station KCRW's World Festival series to highlight the music of Filipino culture. Hosted by KCRW DJ Anthony Valadez and co-hosted by actors Vanessa Hudgens, Lou Diamond Phillps and comedian Jo Koy, the concert showcased the contributions of Filipinos to the American pop culture and music landscape.

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  • "We are here to entertain people," proclaims consummate entertainer, Renaissance man, and Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes, as he drolly discusses Duran Duran's new concert DVD, A Diamond In The Mind (check out two exclusive clips right here). "If we do a show, we will do everything we can to make sure that everyone has had a great night. We're not a selfish band. We don't go onstage thinking, 'Right, we're going to play our entire new album and we're not going to play any of our old songs at all, and we're going to stand with our backs to the audience because we're miserable and we want to write protest songs. It's not about that. It's about lifting people's spirits and taking people on a journey, Duran Duran-style."

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  • Kylie Minogue, circa '87Incredibly, ageless Australian pop goddess and international icon Kylie Minogue has been in the music business for a quarter-century (her debut single, "Locomotion," was released in July 1987), and this has been cause for a yearlong fan celebration of all things Kylie called "K25." But sometimes when she looks back on her past 25 years of style, Kylie doesn't always quite feel like celebrating.

    "It's okay, I know where you're going with this," she recently laughingly told Yahoo! Music during an exclusive interview, when questioned about any possible past fashion regrets. "Of course, the Internet wasn't around then, so you could kind of push something under the carpet. But now, no longer! You've got to accept it--which I kind of did a few years ago, anyway. I just thought, 'This is ridiculous, being so embarrassed of my past!' I felt like I was meeting the girl from the '80s, like me meeting the younger version of me, and just going, 'Okay, so you've embarrassed me quite a bit, but let's just hug it out and get over it.'"

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  • In this era when major labels release box sets that effectively encapsulate major artists' entire careers--consider, if you will, Sony's recent collection of Leonard Cohen's entire recording career, offered up for an entirely reasonable price--one might think there's not much left in the world of unreleased works by highly influential artists.

    But then there is the story of Can.

    A highly influential German band whose works were comparatively undersold here in the United States--only a few of the albums the distinguished band recorded between 1969-1979 were released here while the band was still active, and their 1989 reunion set Rite Time also never surfaced Stateside--the band has left a legacy that time simply refuses to tarnish.

    Built around the instrumental core of keyboardist Irmin Schmidt, bassist Holger Czukay, guitarist Michael Karoli, drummer Jaki Liebezeit, a pair of highly unique singers in American Malcolm Mooney and Japanese vocalist Damo Suzuki--and a latter-day

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  • Folk-rock musician Robert Francis seems to have lived an entire lifetime already. His latest release Strangers in the First Place is a slow burn fanned to flames with vibrant melodies and lovelorn lyrics that are achingly preoccupied with the past, despite his relatively short 24 years on earth. Lucky for us, Francis acknowledges the virtues of doing right by yourself and putting the music first to make a fulfilling career saying, "I don't want to die early--anymore."

    Son of a classical music producer father and a mother hailing for Mexico whose family brought Ranchero music into the home, the singer/songwriter had a wide breadth of exposure within just his family unit. His siblings even included a hari krishna brother and two sisters who played in various rock bands. Starting guitar at seven, the Los Angeles native immediately took to the instrument and never let go. In his teens he became the only student to Red Hot Chili Peppers' former guitarist John Frusciante.  Francis then

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