Song is lifted from OST to new Zach Braff film 'Wish I Was Here'

We recently heard the new Shins song recorded for Zach Braff’s Garden State follow-up Wish I Was Here. Now comes Justin Vernon’s contribution, which comes in the increasingly rare form of a new Bon Iver song. It’s called “Heavenly Father,” and it finds Vernon in his lower-register mode getting fi...

Singer-songwriter also teases collaboration with mystery third artist

In what might be Coldplay’s biggest music-nerd move since they brought Brian Eno in to co-produce Viva La Vida — if not since they interpolated Kraftwerk’s “Computer Love” on their X&Y track “Talk” — Coldplay have brought the Italo-disco grandmaster Giorgio ...

It’s a bit of a punchline now, but Garden State, the 2004 directorial debut from Zach Braff, represented a major moment in indie’s progression towards crossover status. The Shins weren’t just a song playing in the background; they were a plot point. Braff hasn’t directed another movie in the years since, b...