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Mar 24, 2025 By Mark Redfern

The first full trailer for Pavements has been shared. It’s a hybrid documentary/biopic on the iconic ’90s alternative rock band Pavement. Alex Ross Perry directed the film, which features the band but also features Joe Keery as frontman Stephen Malkmus. Watch the trailer below.

A press release describes the film in greater detail: “An examination of the iconic ’90s indie 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 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.”

Keery is known for Stranger Things, Fargo, and Free Guy and also releases music as Djo (his new album, The Crux, is due out April 4 via AWAL).

Pavements premiered at the Venice Film Festival and New York Film Festival. Prior to its June 6 opening, it will screen May 2 at Film Forum in NYC and May 9 in LA.

Pavement were interviewed in our ’90s Issue last year.

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