The Asian American Dance Troupe presents an evening celebrating all forms of Asian dance. Among the performers are the Traditional Chinese Dance Troupe, Chunsa, the Harvard Breakers, SADC, Harvard Wushu Club and the Chado Tea Society. $7 regular, $5 students and seniors. 8 p.m. Lowell Lecture Hall. (SLS).

MUSIC | Deerhoof

Touring in support of their latest album Milk Man, the San Francisco foursome boasts a surplus of genre-violating instrumental experimentation in every song, as well as gloriously atonal yelping from manic lead singer Satomi Matsuzaki. Opening are 5471 and local noise-punkers Ho Ag. Tickets $10. 18+. 1 p.m. Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass. Ave. (BBC).

FILM | I was Born But…

As the Yasujiro Ozu festival finishes up at the HFA, take a chance on this classic 1932 silent, a favorite of knowing Ozuphiles like director Wim Wenders, writer Phillip Lopate and movie critic Donald Richie. Like much Ozu, this film deals with the interplay within a family: raised in the suburbs, kids are bullied by better-off children. The bullies particularly delight in pointing out the father’s middle-management position. In retaliation, the kids become bullies themselves and begin protesting their parents’ mediocrity. The real treat, however, is live Benshi (narrators of silent films) narration by Midori Sawato, Japan’s leading modern Benshi. Ticket $15 regular, $12 students (2 per I.D.) and seniors. 8 p.m. The Harvard Film Archive. (SAW)

Sunday April 25

MUSIC | Einstuerzende Neubauten

The legendary electronic cacophonists are recreating their sinister studio constructions on stage, collapsing several buildings in the process. Blixa and the boys have settled down a bit on their last album, Perpetuum Mobile, but the live show should still be a matchless, if somewhat torturous, evening. Tickets $16. 8 p.m. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. (BBC)

Monday April 26

FILM | Woman Under the Influence

The most famous work of legendary independent director John Cassavetes—a strong influence on everyone from John Sayles to Steven Soderbergh—is a must see for all ardent cinephiles. As always, Cassavetes braces his films in an emotional reality reminiscent of Italian neo-realism and the French new wave salted with American disappointment. This time he wrote and directed his muse, Gena Rowlands, to an Oscar nomination for her Woman in a emotionally fraught relationship with Peter Falk, trying to get a handle of what she’s allowed to be in the modern world. 7 p.m. The Harvard Film Archive . (SAW)

Tuesday April 27

MUSIC | Westbound Train

The popular ska/reggae ensemble cap off an evening of music and film sponsored by the Boston Underground Film Festival. Intermingled with the music, also provided by harmony-rich Bostonians the Bon Savants, are shorts and clips from current and past festivals, as well as a unique performance from the Boston League of Women Wrestlers. Tickets $10. 8:30 p.m. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St. (BBC)

Wednesday April 28