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8:00 p.m.: It is time. Who will be “The Voice”? Will it be Muskogee’s The Swon Brothers or 16-year-old Texan Danielle Bradbery, both representing Oklahoma country music star Blake Shelton’s team? Will Blake get a “The Voice” three-peat for his 37th birthday?

“The Voice” Season 4 finale airs from 8 to 10 tonight on NBC, and the peacock network has lined up an impressive lineup of talent to perform on the hit reality TV show. It’s a sure bet the network will drag out the announcement of the winner to the very end of the two-hour season finale.

Check out a couple of the musical highlights of Monday night’s final live performance episode of “The Voice” Season 4: Coaches Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Usher and Shakira performing “With a Little Help From My Friends” and the top 16 singing Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes’ “Home.” Muskogee’s The Swon Brothers and 16-year-old Texan Danielle Bradbery, both representing Oklahoma country music star Blake Shelton’s team, and indie pop-rocker Michelle Chamuel, who is competing on Team Usher, are the three finalists vying for the grand prize of a recording contract.

A version of this review appears in Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman. Rock Natalie Maines “Mother” (Columbia Records) Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines pledges her allegiance to rock ‘n’ roll with her strong solo debut “Mother.” A decade ago, the Dixie Chicks and the country music establishment fell out in rather spectacular bridge-burning fashion when Maines told a London audience in the days before the Iraq War that she was ashamed President George W.

A Moore classic rock band that has performed locally for 26 years lost about $45,000 in property when a trailer filled with instruments and equipment was stolen.

It is imperfect, but Sabbath fans can play “13” next to the band's first six albums, from 1970s “Black Sabbath” through 1975's “Sabotage,” and not feel much of a stylistic break.

Oklahoma City Concerts & Shows on wimgo Today’s featured event: Hear Tesla at 8 tonight at the Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S Eastern. Doors open at 7 p.m. Information: 677-9169 or www.diamondballroom.net. For more events, go to www.wimgo.com. -BAM

TULSA – Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. this morning to The Eagles’ Oct. 9 show at the BOK Center. Tickets are priced at $49.50, $79.50 and $179.50. The Eagles – Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B.

7:00 p.m.: Country music awards show or not, starting out with Lenny Kravitz is never, ever a bad thing in my opinion. The CMT Music Awards are opening with a rock ‘n’ roll collaboration between Kravitz and tonight’s co-host, country music superstar Jason Aldean, on the Canadian band the Guess Who’s classic hit “American Woman.” Kravitz initially covered this song back in ’99, and even if they don’t seem to have all the kinks worked out up there, he and Aldean seem to be having fun.

UPDATED at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday: Tonight’s screening has been moved inside due to weather concerns. For more information, click here. Today’s featured event: The 13th Annual deadCenter Film Festival kicks off with a 9:15 p.m. tonight with an outdoor screening of the 1965 rock-documentary “The Rolling Stones: Charlie is My Darling” at the Myriad Botanical Gardens Great Lawn.

Tonight’s free outdoor festival kick-off screening of “The Rolling Stones: Charlie is My Darling,” sponsored by Devon Energy, has been moved inside due to weather to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Dr. There now will be two screenings, at 6 p.m.

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” — The Beatles, “The End” TULSA — Well before the end, it was clear that Sir Paul McCartney was taking and making plenty of love at the BOK Center Thursday night.

Today’s featured event: TULSA – Hear Sir Paul McCartney play the second of his two-night stand at Tulsa’s BOK Center, 200 S Denver. The show begins at 8 p.m.; doors open at 6:30 p.m. For more information, go to www.bokcenter.com. For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.

TULSA – In celebration of Sir Paul McCartney’s return to the BOK Center tonight and Thursday, several downtown streets surrounding the BOK Center were temporarily renamed in his honor. The street names, representing song titles from the Beatles, include Abbey Road (3rd Street), Penny Lane (Denver Ave.), Blackbird Blvd (1st Street) and All Together Crossing (Frisco), according to a news release.

TULSA – Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has declared May 29, 2013, as Paul McCartney Day in the state of Oklahoma as part of the kickoff to McCartney’s back-to-back performances at the SMG-managed BOK Center tonight and Thursday, according to a news release.

In all the madness of the devastating tornadoes that tore through central Oklahoma earlier this week, I never got the chance to pay proper tribute to Ray Manzarek, one of my favorite members of one of my all-time favorite bands. Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose complex and indelible keyboards complemented Jim Morrison’s moody baritone, died Monday in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family.

Here are the Best Bets for entertainment in Oklahoma this holiday weekend, as listed in Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman. For more events, go to www.wimgo.com: 1. Hear indie folk/pop band Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk at 8 p.m.

Today’s featured event: PRYOR -  Hear Guns N’ Roses, Bush, Papa Roach and more from noon to after midnight today at the Catch the Fever Festival Grounds, 1421 W 450 Road. This year’s festival continues from noon to midnight Saturday and Sunday and features nearly 80 acts including Alice in Chains, Korn, Cheap Trick and many more.

Concho Concerts & Shows on wimgo Pistol Annies, the country music trio comprised of Tishomingo resident Miranda Lambert and singer-songwriter pals Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe, performed the television debut of their song “Unhappily Married,” Tuesday night on “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.” “Unhappily Married” is a darkly funny track off the group’s second album, “Annie Up.” The Annies are continuing their media blitz in support of their sophomore release at 9 tonight with a live streaming show.

Oklahoma City Film on wimgo A special one-time screening of “Rockshow” — a concert film starring Paul McCartney and Wings on their 1975-76 “Wings Over the World” tour — will be presented at 7 p.m. Thursday at Harkins Bricktown Cinema 16, 150 E Reno Ave.