PAVEMENT share video trailer of new film Pavements

An examination of the seminal band, Pavements appears to be just another music documentary, until it doesn’t. A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, the film directed by Alex Ross Perry and produced/edited by Robert Greene intimately shows the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history and a big-budget Hollywood biopic inspired by their saga as the most important band of a generation. The film previously premiered at Venice Film Festival and New York Film Festival to rave reviews.

Utopia’s unorthodox film Pavements officially opened in NYC May 2 at Film Forum and LA May 9 at NuArt, with special screenings happening at BAM in Brooklyn this weekend.

On May 30th, Matador will release the Pavements soundtrack album digitally with a physical edition to follow at a later date. Compiled by Pavements producer/editor Robert Greene and Pavement, the soundtrack ropes together disparate elements from the film – dialogue snippets, scenes from the fake Oscar-bait biopic Range Life, and cast recordings from the Slanted! Enchanted! jukebox musical as well as live and rehearsal tapes from the band’s 2022 reunion tour. The soundtrack features the original lineup as well as Rebecca Cole on keyboards and backing vocals on the live recordings from the 2020s.

Pavement are Mark Ibold, Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg, Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich and Steve West. Among the most beloved acts to come out of the American underground in the 1990’s, the band released five era-defining albums – Slanted And Enchanted (1992), Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994), Wowee Zowee (1995), Brighten The Corners (1997) and Terror Twilight (1999) – before disbanding in 1999. Pavement’s 2022 reunion saw them headline Primavera Sound and perform sold-out multi-night runs in Los Angeles, New York, and London.

Pavements | Official Trailer | Utopia

Select critical praise for Pavements:

“Brilliantly done…delightfully destabilizing” – The New York Times

“Dazzling…An artificial artifact that nonetheless proves more authentic” – The New Yorker

“Perfectly cracked…exactly the type of WTF rock doc the band deserves” – Rolling Stone

“Perfectly imperfect…it slips pleasingly through your grasp” – Los Angeles Times

“A Möbius strip of a music documentary, at once ardent in its affections and devilishly ironic in how it treats the norms of paying tribute” – Wall Street Journal

“A reminder that the fourth (and fifth and sixth) wall can be smashed, that the rock doc can be reinvented” – IndieWire

“The maverick approach leaves the viewer constantly wondering what’s real and what isn’t, while capturing the spirit of the band more effectively than a more easily digestible approach could” – AV Club

“Shaggy and impossible-to-categorize” – Stereogum

“Ambitious…an innovative portrayal” – Slant

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Scheduled for release Friday, May 30th via Matador

PAVEMENTS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK  TRACKLIST

1. Intro for a Major Motion Picture
2. Our Singer (LA Rehearsal Session)
3. Joe Keery Screen Test (Movie Clip)
4. Angel Carver Blues / Mellow Jazz Docent (Live at Cirkus, Stockholm)
5. You’re Killing Me/ My Radio / Nothing Ever Happens (Jukebox Musical Versions)
6. Spizzle Trunk (Portland Rehearsal Session)
7. It’s What I Want (Movie Clip)
8. In the Mouth a Desert (Live at Le Grand Rex, Paris)
9. Priceless Art (Movie Clip)
10. Fame Throwa (LA Rehearsal Session)
11. Song is Sacred (Movie Clip)
12. Here (Jukebox Musical Version)
13. Zurich is Stained (Live at Cirkus, Stockholm)
14. When Songs Are Bought (Movie Clip)
15. Witchi Tai-To (LA Rehearsal Session)
16. Don’t Fuck with My Rolls Man (Movie Clip)
17. Two States (Live at Cirkus, Stockholm)
18. I Can’t Play Billie Joel / “Range Life” Theme (Movie Clips)
19. Joe Keery Sings Range Life at Fake Lollapalooza (Deleted Scene)
20. Serpentine Pad (LA Rehearsal Session)
21. Stairwell Scene (Movie Clip)
22. Fillmore Jive (Portland Rehearsal Session)
23. Circa 1762 (John Peel Session)
24. We Dance (Jukebox Musical Version)
25. Unfair (Live at Cirkus, Stockholm)
26. Harness Your Hopes (Live at Cirkus, Stockholm)
27. Still Waiting on that Gold Record (Spiral Interview)
28. Shoot the Singer (Snail Mail – Live from the Pavement Museum in NYC)
29. Endless Loop of Songs (Deleted Scene)
30. No More Absolutes / So Mind Blowing (Movie Clips)
31. Grounded (Live at the Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles)
32. Fight This Generation (Mud Throwa Musical – Live Mix)
33. The Band That Ruined Lollapalooza (Movie Clip)
34. The Infrastructure Rots (Movie Clip / Jukebox Musical Version)
35. Type Slowly (Live at Cirkus, Stockholm)
36. Slanted! Enchanted! Tryouts! (Movie Clip)
37. Grave Architecture (Portland Rehearsal Session)
38. I Heard Pavement for the First Time Six Weeks Ago (Movie Clip)
39. Give it a Day (Jukebox Musical Version)
40. I Just Saw a Ghost (Movie Clip)
41. Slanted! Enchanted! Finale! (Jukebox Musical Version)

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