Hear 11 songs to prep for the band’s bizarro documentary, “Pavements.” By David Renard This past Friday one of the more bonkers music documentaries ever to hit screens arrived: “Pavements,” the ...

When Alex Ross Perry set out to make a film about Pavement, he wanted it to be as absurd as some of the ’90s slacker band’s lyrics. For the indie director, known for “Listen Up Philip” and “Her Smell, ...

The night before the New York premiere of Pavements, Alex Ross Perry’s prismatic, inventive, maddeningly clever documentary about the poster children for success-shy ’90s indie rock, the band ...

Pavement has always been a band of uneven proportions. Forever on the precipice of the big time, the group never appeared to try hard enough, to want to be understood enough, and their creative output ...

“I always was hoping that it was music for the future. I mean, I think everyone who’s not that successful in their time tries to think that,” says Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus early on in ...

Pavement capped a nearly three-year-long reunion with the NYC premiere of Alex Ross Perry‘s upcoming PAVEMENTS movie, the documentary/biopic/jukebox-musical that is ...

Music biopics and documentaries can feel like two extremes for fans of the musicians they happen to depict. On the one hand, the Hollywood biopic simplifies and sanitizes things for a broad audience, ...

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 ...