Helicopter Helicopter

In its five-year history, Boston’s Helicopter Helicopter has already issued five full-length albums, appeared on a slew of indie-rock compilations and crisscrossed the nation about a thousand times. Its 2001 breakthrough effort, By Starlight, offered a whirlwind sampling of raucous rock, and the band ratchets those tunes to the bursting point in concert. Having already established sizable followings in the Midwest and on the East Coast, the band is now looking for new ways to build its growing reputation. Guitarists and singers Chris Zerby and Julie Chadwick make a formidable — and photogenic — pair, trading vocal lines and power chords like seasoned vets. Onstage, these elements crash and collide into one another like bumper cars. The band’s predilection for road life has already brought it to the area several times, but material from HH’s latest opus, Wild Dogs with X-Ray Eyes, should offer longtime followers something fresh to sink their teeth into.