There have been a lot of re-releases in recent years – now fresh material is actually coming.
Pavement’s first truly new track in 25 years is apparently set to appear on the score for the film about the band, “Pavements.” A title and the specific release date are not yet known.
“He’s pretty good.”
“There will be a new Pavement song on the soundtrack, that’s all I can tell you,” guitarist Scott Kannberg announced on the “Kreative Kontrol” podcast on Tuesday (December 17). “I heard a mix of it today – and it’s pretty good,” said the 58-year-old with conviction.
The last new music from the slack rockers was released in October 1999 with the MAJOR LEAGUES EP. A month before their breakup. Since then, the band members have worked on other projects and rehashed a large amount of old material in new editions – including a variety of unreleased tracks. In 2010, 2022 and 2024, the formation around singer Stephen Malkmus got together again for live revivals.
“A song we all enjoyed playing”
The group recorded the now announced, still anonymous piece quite unpretentiously during rehearsals for their reunion tour this year. “It’s not a big deal, it’s just cool because it’s something different and it’s a song that we all enjoyed playing,” Kannberg said on the podcast. Alex Ross Perry, the director of the new biopic about the Californian indie combo, was also a guest at the “Creative Control”-Consequence. Even he didn’t know about the existence of the song despite working intensively with the band.
Perry’s film “Pavements” premiered in Venice in September. This was followed by premieres in New York, London and Sidney. The mockumentary combines elements of a documentary with a fictional storyline, using both archive footage from the reunion tours and music from “Slanted!” Enchanted! A Pavement Musical,” a jukebox musical that premiered in New York in 2022.