Out Today: Pavement - 'Pavements (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'

30 May 2025 Malcolm Donaldson

Today, Matador Records capitalizes on the sweeping success of box office smash 'PAVEMENTS' with the digital release of the iconic meta-documentary’s original soundtrack. It includes the group’s never-before-released cover of Jim Pepper’s song “Witchitai-To,” which you can listen to HERE. A physical edition will follow at a later date.

Compiled by PAVEMENTS producer/editor Robert Greene and the band, the soundtrack ropes together disparate elements of 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 recordings from the group’s 2021 reunion tour. The full-band performances were mixed by Bryce Goggin, who worked on Pavement classics Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, Wowee Zowee, and Brighten the Corners.

Director Alex Ross Perry’s film PAVEMENTS is currently screening in select theaters, will open nation-wide on June 6th, and will arrive on MUBI soon. PAVEMENTS has been met with confusion, confoundment, and ultimately high praise from critics, including features and reviews in the New York Times, New Yorker, and Los Angeles Times. Find a list of showtimes HERE.

Earlier this month, Pavement made their debut on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to perform “Harness Your Hopes,” the group’s b-side-cum-streaming-smash, now officially certified as an RIAA gold record. Watch the clip HERE. The band has also announced a headline performance at this fall’s Levitation festival in Austin.

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 (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)'
01. Intro for a Major Motion Picture
02. Our Singer (LA Rehearsal Session)
03. Joe Keery Screen Test (Movie Clip)
04. Angel Carver Blues / Mellow Jazz Docent (Live at Cirkus, Stockholm)
05. You’re Killing Me/ My Radio / Nothing Ever Happens (Jukebox Musical Versions)
06.Spizzle Trunk (Portland Rehearsal Session)
07. It’s What I Want (Movie Clip)
08. In the Mouth a Desert (Live at Le Grand Rex, Paris)
09. 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. Witchitai-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 Billy 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)