Pavement's co-founder Scott Kannberg, also known as "Spiral Stairs", has confirmed that the band will feature a brand new original song in the soundtrack of the Pavements documentary.

He appeared on the Kreative Kontrol podcast alongside the film's writer/director Alex Ross Perry and the editor/producer Robert Greene, where he admitted that they were working with Matador Records to record a motion picture soundtrack for the film's theatrical release this coming spring.

"There will be a new Pavement song on the soundtrack, that's all I'm going to give you," said Kanneberg when asked about future Pavement projects. That may not be much, but for a band that has not released any new material since 1999 yet still maintained a powerful cult following, a new song is monumental.

Alex Ross Perry's Pavements traces the trajectory of the 90s art-punk band. Envisioned as a high-concept, documentary-meets-jukebox-musical-meets-art-film, his cinematic adaptation of his 2022 Pavement-themed musical Slanted! Enchanted! splices documentary footage of concerts and recording sessions with scripted, fictional elements about creating a spoof biopic of the members. Pavements premiered this past September at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, and it will receive a theatrical release in spring 2025, according to Stereogum.

Perry, a long-time fan of the band, first collaborated with Pavement for the 2022 music video for "Harness Your Hopes," a previously song from Brighten the Corners (1997) that was included in the 1999 Spit on a Stranger EP, as well as the 2008 Brighen the Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition. The deep cut went viral on social media, particularly TikTok, in 2020. Pavement worked with Perry to finally give the song a proper music video, complementing it with the reissue of Spit on a Stranger.

Popularity with a new generation of listeners culminated in the 2022 Reunion tour, Pavement's first major large-scale tour together since their brief New York City residency in 2010. Some of the concert footage seen in the Pavements documentary comes from this reunion tour, and, according to Kanneberg, they used the time rehearsing for the performances to come together to write a new song. In true Pavement fashion, Kanneberg downplayed the story behind writing the new song, saying on Kreative Kontrol, "It's not a big deal."

According to Kanneberg, the new song is mixed, and it's "pretty good." He added, "It's just cool because it's something different, and it's a song we all kind of loved playing."