Tiny Moving Parts featured at House Cafe

By Northern Star staff

The alternative rock band Tiny Moving Parts headlined at the House Café, 263 East Lincoln Hwy, at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

This stop is a part of the band’s four month tour to promote their album “Celebrate” which was released Friday.

Guitarist and Vocalist Dylan Mattheisen said he hopes the new album will open up more opportunities like the venue they played at Riot fest in 2014.

Riot fest is a 3-day September concert in Chicago and Denver, CO, that features punk rock, alternative rock and hip hop groups.

Mattheisen calls their music “alternative rock with mathematical instrumentation”.

“When we started, we constantly changed time signatures,” Mattheisen said. “But some new listeners got a headache and didn’t understand what was going on in the song. Now, we’ve found like a happy balance and medium.”

Bassist and Vocalist Matthew Chevalier and Drummer Billy Chevalier are brothers and Mattheisen is their cousin. The family trio have been playing together since they were 12 years old.

Tiny Moving Parts compares their sound to rock band Blink-182 and post-hardcore band the Fall of Troy.

During the last two months of their tour, the band will play in nine different European countries with the Fall of Troy.

For more information on their upcoming tour dates, including a show June 25 at Beat Kitchen, 2100 West Belmont Ave., Chicago, go to tinymovingparts.com.