Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. In music circles Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon is one of the most famous communities ...

The transcendent sounds of the Laurel Canyon music scene of the mid-1960s are examined in "Echo in the Canyon," a telling tale of California dreamin' awash with good vibrations. Director Andrew Slater ...

The new documentary “Echo In The Canyon” chronicles the birth of the Laurel Canyon music scene, just two years, from 1965 to 1967, with the echo of its title a reminder of the way in which these songs ...

Given the often-ugly competitiveness in the music industry, it’s both striking and refreshing that the spirit of the Laurel Canyon music scene centered on collaboration and inspiration. That’s an ...

The Brits may have had their rock invasion, but in the ’60s California had its sun-dappled version, headquartered in the wooded slopes and curling roads of Laurel Canyon, where a singular collection ...

Too much echo… not enough Canyon. That’s at the core of the imbalances in the celebrated new rock doc “Echo in the Canyon”: It’s a movie with too much Beach Boys and Beatles — as strange as it seems ...

Andrew Slater’s music documentary Echo in the Canyon has been set as the opening night film of Film Independent’s 2018 LA Film Festival, which kicks off Sept. 20 and continues through Sept. 28. This ...

“Echo in the Canyon,” which opened the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival on Thursday, is the first documentary ever chosen for the opening-night slot at LAFF. But the festival has clearly learned a ...

Andrew Slater’s “Echo in the Canyon” might be described as a hybrid offspring of a music video and a documentary. Inspired by a recently released album of the same name produced by Slater, the film ...

There's a problem when a Laurel Canyon documentary spends time with the Beatles at the expense of mentioning Joni Mitchell, Love or the Doors. Too much echo… not enough Canyon. That’s at the core of ...