“You gotta hear this one song, it’ll change your life, I swear.” How you feel about that 5, 10, or 15 years ago era from your own life may color how you feel about Garden State, a film that tells the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. Scrubs star Zach Braff’s 2004 directorial debut, starring Braff, Natalie Portman, ...

Twenty years ago, the music industry was wholly unprepared for the Garden State soundtrack and its “life-changing” songs by the Shins, Coldplay, and Iron and Wine. The 2004 movie, which actor Zach ...

Perched on a frigid hilltop in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park on Saturday night, actor Zach Braff vamped onstage. He took his time introducing the night’s next attraction, part of a “Garden State” ...