Kevin Bronson on November 14th, 2013

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It was a night built around songcraft, not pyrotechnics, when Minor Alps visited the Echoplex on Tuesday. The duo, a collaboration between Juliana Hatfield (Blake Babies, Juliana Hatfield Three) and Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), unveiled songs from their new album “Get There,” and on tunes such as “I Don’t Know What to Do With my Hands” and “Buried Plans,” Hatfield and Caws dueted serenely, their mature but vibrant voices framed by acoustic guitar. And it isn’t often you have a Grammy winner playing a support slot at a club show, but the crowd at the Echo arrived early for Dan Wilson (Semisonic, Trip Shakespeare), who had the ubiquitous No. 1 Modern Rock hit “Closing Time” in 1998 and has won Grammys as a producer (Adele) and songwriter (Dixie Chicks). Wilson just unveiled the new single “Disappearing” from a solo album to come in 2014.

Photos by David Benjamin