Sun. April 29 - Tues. May 1

 Hot on the heels of the Boston Underground Film Festival comes the Independent Film Festival of Boston. You cannot say Boston lacks for diversity or experimenting when it comes to exhibiting non-mainstream movies. As far as we're concerned, there are places we'll go and places we won't. For instance, we didn't go  to the Brattle Theatre tonight Saturday April 28 at 9:30 p.m. to see "Zoo," a documentary about men who love animals and not in the way we love our cats Trevor, Lucy, Slugger and Solo. We're told it's not sensationalist or explicit - and we know that world is out there - but, well, our curiosity has limits. You, on the other hand, may be more curiouser. The IFFB - which also takes place at the Somerville Theatre and Coolidge Corner Theatre - is where you can explore territory that usually remains unexplored (by most of us). Call it the Anartica of film. The festival closes May 1 at the Coolidge with the world premiere of "Brooklyn Rules." Movies tend to start around noon and screen through around midnight at the aformentioned venues. On Saturday, there's two discussions - "Realities of Independent Filmmaking" and "Non-Theatrical Distribution for Filmmakers" - starting at 12:30 p.m. at Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway. There's a slew of films so you're going to want to check descriptions and times at their website below and decide what you want to take a chance on. Hey, "Spiderman 3" isn't open yet ... Tickets are around $9.

Festival site: ifffb oston.org Coolidge, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, 617-734-2000, coolidge.org Brattle, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 617-876-6837, brattlefilm.org Somerville, 55 Davis Square, 617-625-5700 somervilletheatreonline.com

Sat. April 29

 Occasionally, we give shopping tips in this space. Shopping is entertainment, right? The Punk Rock Flea Market is certainly that. Ben Sisto (of Honeypump and the Milky Way Lounge & Lanes) started this activity in 2002 with ten tables and 30 customers. It was done in conjunction with Sisto's alma mater, Mass. College of Art. The Flea Market has now up for the tenth time, and they've figured 40 tables is the ideal space for you to browse for vintage t-shirts, badges, records, memorabilia and the like. You know the drill: Someone else's junk, your treasure. (We have some back-in-the-day, battered punk rock badges from the late-'70s that are doing us no real good but we can't just bear to part with. Also the Sex Pistols first two 45s, "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen.")  Adding to the atmosphere are djs Claude Money, Eli "Paperboy" Reed and Mark Pearson. The event starts at 11 a.m. and shuts down at 5  p.m. Saturday April 29. It's at the Mass College of Art's Pozen Center. Sisto calls it "socially responsible capitalism" and apologizes that his mum won't be there providing her vegan baked goods - she'll be in New Orleans singing with her band. (The photo is from the sixth Flea Market. The blonde is Becca and the guy to her right is the Wrecking Crew's Ralph DiNunzio.)

621 Huntington Ave., 617-784-6115 myspace.com/prfm

Sat. April 28

Keyboardist Erik Lindgren has played in a boatload of genres - from punk to avant-garde - during his years on the Boston music scene. But he's always nurtured a taste for left-of-center, non-commercial projects. That hasn't made Lindgren (in photo) a millionaire, but it has allowed him to put forth a slew of cool projects in front of inquisitive audiences. Lindgren's latest is what he calls his "rockin' chamber ensemble," The Frankenstein Consort. Flutist Lea Botta, clarinetist Cory Silva and bassoon player Mark Finklestein join Lindgren at Rutman's Violin Shop, a block from Symphony Hall, on Saturday April 28 at 8 p.m. On tap: Fresh arrangements of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic songs (another Lindgren group), works by Raymond Scott, who scored many Warner Bros. cartoons, a hip-hop remake of Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein" and much more. A donation of $5 is asked. Bonus fun: Go across the street to Tiger Lily after the gig, pay $7.60 for any dish, and mix with Erik and the others. Lindgren sums it up thus: "Offbeat chamber music + Malaysian food = A Darn Fun Nite Out." We concur.

11 Westland Ave., 508-947-7378 sfzreocrdings.com

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It's not enough that Roger Miller sings and plays guitar with Mission of Burma and plays keyboards with soundtrack masters Alloy Orchestra. He also plays in the duo Binary System. And he's an artist, as in the "painting pictures" kid. Miller describes it as "paint and color, those curious cohabitants in the world of art," adding "behind my usual abstract ruminations there are numerous scrawl/drawn 'characters,' as may be seen in the two-panelled piece "Mission of Burma Live." The show is now up at ZuZu! and you can see it there through  through April 27.

472 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 617-492-4515 mideastclub.com

Fri. April 27

 Boston's longest running hip-hop night? There's probably competition for that title, but "Marinate" stakes the claim at four years in its return to the Milky Way Lounge and Lanes Friday April 27. Marinate founding DJs Tommee and Knife (in photo) will spin hip-hop and reggae. They'll be joined by DJ Dr. Claw and DJ Special as well as Blend from the local outfit Project Move. Expect underground, old school mash-ups and mid-'90s hip-hop. They promise "each record skillfully served with turntablist precision." We like that. Sounds like a chef. And aren't they, though? Chefs of Sound. The party starts at 9:30 p.m. and runs 'til 1 a.m. Guys, it'll cost you $5 at the door, but ladies, it's free for you. And, remember, you can always move to the right side of the space for some rockin' candlepin bowling - our favorite kinda pin dropping.

403-405 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, 617-524-3740 myspace.com/marinate music