The Black Keys join label mate Steve Reich on the roster for this year's South by Southwest conference, which will be held March 12-16 in Austin, Texas. For the band, their performance marks the start of a tour in support of their forthcoming Nonesuch release. Reich will be speaking at the conference with Sonic Youth front man Thurston Moore.

The Broadcast Film Critics Association has honored There Will Be Blood with two Critics' Choice Awards: Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis and Best Composer for Jonny Greenwood. 

To say that Glide magazine's Martin Malloy wonders rhetorically how a collaboration on There Will Be Blood among three "masters of their domain"—Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Jonny Greenwood—could possibly disappoint. "Well it can't!" he answers. "And it didn't." For the reviewer, "the most gratifying experience of the whole film was Jonny Greenwood's emergence as an incredible film composer ... Greenwood’s score gets under your skin and doesn’t leave for over two hours, yet it’s somehow still beautiful and enthralling."

'Tis the season for Sweeney Todd. With the Tim Burton-directed film in theaters across the country now and the national tour of the John Doyle-directed stage version making its way through the States, Broadway World's Beau Higgins writes: "I have come to the conclusion that Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, is certainly one of the greatest musicals ever created."