Bands join Husband&wife at Bishop tour stop

Guitar shadows played on the blue-lit walls of the Bishop on Tuesday as bands husband&wife, Metavari and State Park arranged their equipment.
Ambient sound checks filled the room.
Muncie-based band State Park opened for Metavari and husband&wife, two bands touring “the universe and back,” as their poster announced, going from Midwestern cities to several stops in Canada.
Derek Miller, lead vocalist and guitarist for State Park, said he “just wanted to start a band with his friend.”
A fresh, young band started in March of this year, State Park’s sound can be described as “slacking off,” Miller said, and it’s influenced by many 1990s bands.
While this was their first performance in Bloomington, they’ve been hanging out here for a couple of years with friends husband&wife.
All of the members in State Park attend Ball State, and this was their third show.
“It’s kind of nice to see them off,” State Park tambourine player Derek Tulowitzky said, adding that he enjoys husband&wife guitarist Tim Felton’s noodling and the Nirvana covers husband&wife has done in the past.
Jared Cheek, owner of Flannelgraph records, came to see his friends in Metavari and husband&wife off as well.
“I like both of them a lot, and they keep getting better,” Cheek said.
He added with a laugh that they both have trouble keeping drummers, and he liked their work for the same label, Bloomington-based Crossroads of America Records.
As a Bloomington native, Miranda Hewins has listened to husband&wife for several years.
“I love them. They’re one of my favorites of all, out of local or major bands,” Hewins said.
Hewins said she enjoyed their mellow but upbeat sound, which is what drew her to them.
“They don’t sound like a lot of other bands.”