Pavement Reveal ‘Pavements’ Soundtrack, Visit ‘Colbert’

The lead-up to, and content of, the Pavement-focused film Pavements may have been completely baffling, but the beloved rock band is shedding some much-needed light on the proceedings by announcing a May 30 digital release date for its accompanying soundtrack.

The 41-track Matador project includes numerous live and rehearsal recordings from Pavement’s second reunion tour in 2022, as well as what is apparently the first truly new song Pavement song since 1998, “Intro for a Major Motion Picture.” The album is rounded out by dialog snippets and cast recordings from the bizarre Slanted! Enchanted! musical featured in the film. See the track list below.

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The Alex Ross Perry-directed Pavements is now screening in New York and Los Angeles before its June 6 theatrical wide release through Utopia. Click here for showtimes.

To help promote the film, Pavement performed their improbable streaming hit “Harness Your Hopes” last night (May 15) on CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert as part of their first TV appearance since 2010. The Stephen Malkmus-led group played what they said was their “last show for a long time” in October in conjunctin with a New York Film Festival screening of Pavements.

Malkmus told Vanity Fair last year he actually thought the initial Pavements footage he was shown was a “prank,” but that he was “good” with subsequent edits. For his part, Ross Perry told Vanity Fair in a separate interview he thought Malkmus “was less charmed by seeing himself fictionally depicted in ridiculous cliché terms. Anyone who’s not an egomaniac or a sociopath would have to be. All I could say for two years was, ‘Guys, I really think people will see this for what it is. And I am begging for that trust.’ But I realized, oh, you guys are too cool to watch these terrible movies. You don’t watch Rocket Man or Elvis or any of these things out of even idle curiosity. You just don’t care. So the buffoonery of this writing and acting is kind of lost, because you don’t hate-watch five music biopics a year as some of us do.”

Here is the track list for Pavements:

Intro for a Major Motion Picture
Our Singer (LA Rehearsal Session)
Joe Keery Screen Test (Movie Clip)
Angel Carver Blues / Mellow Jazz Docent (Live at Cirkus, Stockholm)
You’re Killing Me/ My Radio / Nothing Ever Happens (Jukebox Musical Versions)
Spizzle Trunk (Portland Rehearsal Session)
It’s What I Want (Movie Clip)
In the Mouth a Desert (Live at Le Grand Rex, Paris)
Priceless Art (Movie Clip)
Fame Throwa (LA Rehearsal Session)
Song Is Sacred (Movie Clip)
Here (Jukebox Musical Version)
Zurich Is Stained (Live at Cirkus, Stockholm)
When Songs Are Bought (Movie Clip)
Witchi Tai-To (LA Rehearsal Session)
Don’t Fuck With My Rolls Man (Movie Clip)
Two States (Live at Cirkus, Stockholm)
I Can’t Play Billie Joel / “Range Life” Theme (Movie Clips)
Joe Keery Sings Range Life at Fake Lollapalooza (Deleted Scene)
Serpentine Pad (LA Rehearsal Session)
Stairwell Scene (Movie Clip)
Fillmore Jive (Portland Rehearsal Session)
Circa 1762 (John Peel Session)
We Dance (Jukebox Musical Version)
Unfair (Live at Cirkus, Stockholm)
Harness Your Hopes (Live at Cirkus, Stockholm)
Still Waiting on That Gold Record (Spiral Interview)
Shoot the Singer (Snail Mail – Live from the Pavement Museum in NYC)
Endless Loop of Songs (Deleted Scene)
No More Absolutes / So Mind Blowing (Movie Clips)
Grounded (Live at the Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles)
Fight This Generation (Mud Throwa Musical – Live Mix)
The Band That Ruined Lollapalooza (Movie Clip)
The Infrastructure Rots (Movie Clip / Jukebox Musical Version)
Type Slowly (Live at Cirkus, Stockholm)
Slanted! Enchanted! Tryouts! (Movie Clip)
Grave Architecture (Portland Rehearsal Session)
I Heard Pavement for the First Time Six Weeks Ago (Movie Clip)
Give It a Day (Jukebox Musical Version)
I Just Saw a Ghost (Movie Clip)
Slanted! Enchanted! Finale! (Jukebox Musical Version)

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