New Pavement Song Earmarked For Film Soundtrack

Pavement‘s first new song since 1998 will apparently see the light of day on the soundtrack from an upcoming film about the band, Pavements. Group member Scott Kannberg let the news slip on the Kreative Kontrol podcast, revealing, “I just heard a mix of it today, and it’s pretty good.”

The track, for which Kannberg didn’t reveal a name, was taped during rehearsals for Pavement’s most recent round of reunion touring. “It’s not a big deal,” he said. “It’s just cool because it’s something different and is a song we all really loved playing.”

Pavements director Alex Ross Perry was also a guest during the interview and admitted even he didn’t know about the new song. The film, an unconventional pseudo biopic that has confused and/or enraged some early viewers, will be released theatrically in the U.S. by Utopia and in the spring on streaming platforms through Mubi.

Pavement’s “last show for a long time” took place in October as part of a New York Film Festival screening of Pavements. The Stephen Malkmus-led band broke up following 1999’s Terror Twilight but reunited in 2010 and then again in 2022.

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