Paul Thomas Anderson’s new feature film, Inherent Vice, opens in select theaters in New York and Los Angeles tonight, released by Warner Bros. Pictures. An adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon novel of the same name, the film is set in the tail end of the psychedelic ’60s and stars Oscar nominees Joaquin Phoenix (who was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance yesterday), Josh Brolin, and Owen Wilson. Inherent Vice recently made New York Times film critic Manhola Dargis’s list of her favorite movies of the year and landed at No. 3 on the Guardian’s 10 Best Films of 2014 list. To find out where Inherent Vice is playing near you, visit inherentvicemovie.com.

The soundtrack to the film, which features music by Jonny Greenwood and recordings from the movie’s era—Dargis calls it an “excellent playlist”—is due out this coming Monday on Nonesuch, with the vinyl to follow March 3. Greenwood’s score is “delivered with as much intensity and finesse as his previous collaborations with the director,” says The Wire, referencing 2007’s There Will Be Blood and 2012’s The Master. “Tense layers of winding strings, punctuated by woodwind, provide a dramatic foil to the selection of lively diegetic genre tracks.”

You can hear the soundtrack’s Radiohead-penned tune “Spooks,” performed by Greenwood and members of Supergrass, with a voiceover from Joanna Newsom, who narrates the film, here.

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The Black Keys take their Turn Blue World Tour to the Carolinas this weekend: at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina, tonight and the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina, on Saturday. This leg of the tour, which continues in Florida in the week ahead, features supporting sets by special guest St. Vincent. “Their music is strong, clever and idiosyncratic,” wrote the Baltimore Sun about the band’s recent performance there. “It’s their execution, ability to pen earworm-heavy tunes and general off-the-cuff coolness in the face of rock’s stale cornball factory that make them a successful band today.” Read the full review at baltimoresun.com.

The Keys have been nominated for three Grammy Awards this year: Best Rock Album for Turn Blue; Best Rock Performance for the album’s first single, “Fever”; and Best Rock Song for “Fever” for band mates Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney as well as Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse), all three of whom produced the new album. Turn Blue has been named one of the Best Albums of 2014 by Rolling Stone, which calls it “a giant step into the best, most consistently gripping album the Keys have ever made.”

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The Brad Mehldau Trio—with Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums—rounds out its US fall tour in the Northeast this weekend: an all-ages show at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia tonight; the Berklee Performance Center in Boston on Saturday; and The Egg in Albany on Sunday.

After the New Year, Mehldau heads out for a solo tour of Europe. He has just been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo for his performance on “Sleeping Giant,” a track off Mehliana: Taming the Dragon, the debut album from his electric duo album with drummer Mark Guiliana. Jazzwise called the album “astonishing ... one of the best albums of 2014.”

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Natalie Merchant, who offered a graceful set at the WFUV Benefit Concert at the Beacon Theatre in New York City earlier this week, heads to Long Island to perform a sold-out show at the Staller Center in Stony Brook on Saturday. Her new, self-titled album was released earlier this year on Nonesuch Records.

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Conor Oberst, who recently headlined the WFUV Benefit Concert in New York City, heads out West to support another great listener-supported radio station, performing at the Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge, California, tonight, as part of the KCSN Benefit Concert series. He shares a triple bill with fellow singer/songwriters Ryan Adams and David Gray. "Hundreds of Ways," off Oberst's Nonesuch debut album, Upside Down Mountain, made the list of NPR Music's Favorite Songs of 2014.