[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

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.

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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 10^th anniversary of their fourth album, Transatlanticism, and could possible see a release of some of their shows with the Magik*Magik

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.'"

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