Photo by Marcus Roth.
"Harness Your Hopes," a Pavement B-side that appears on their 1999 Spit On a Stranger EP, went inexplicably viral on Tik Tok in 2020, leading to tens of millions of streams on other platforms. Now, as the beloved slacker band gears up for their first tour since 2010, they've shared a video treatment for the song from the mind of Alex Ross Perry (director of the Elizabeth Moss-starring 2018 mock rock biopic Her Smell) and starring Sophie Thatcher of Showtime's Yellowjackets. The new visuals lean on Pavement's nostalgia capital, featuring a Walkman, a chalkboard, several yellow trenchcoats, gorilla costumes, a Dukes of Hazard lunchbox, old festival footage, and many more blasts from the past.
The video comes a month before Matador's scheduled April 8 reissues of Spit on a Stranger on 12-inch vinyl and Pavement's Terror Twilight LP, also from 1999. Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal will rearrange the record's tracklist in its originally intended order and include B-sides, home demos, rehearsal tapes, live recordings, and rough cuts from a scrapped session at Sonic Youth’s Echo Canyon studio.
Watch the new "Harness Your Hopes" short and view Pavement's upcoming tour dates below.
Pavement 2022 tour
6/2 – Barcelona, ES – Primavera Sound
6/10 – Porto, Portugal – NOS Primavera Sound
9/7 – San Diego, CA – Balboa Theatre (SOLD OUT)
9/8 – Los Angeles, CA – Orpheum Theatre (SOLD OUT)
9/9 – Los Angeles, CA – Orpheum Theatre (SOLD OUT)
9/10 – Los Angeles, CA – Orpheum Theatre (SOLD OUT)
9/12 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
9/13– San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
9/14 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
9/16 – Troutdale, OR – Edgefield Amphitheatre
9/17 – Seattle, WA – The Paramount Theatre (SOLD OUT)
9/19 – Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre (SOLD OUT)
9/20 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
9/21 – St. Paul, MN – The Palace Theatre
9/22 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre (SOLD OUT)
9/23 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre
9/24 – Detroit, MI – Masonic Cathedral Theatre (SOLD OUT)
9/26 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall (SOLD OUT)
9/27 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
9/28 – Boston, MA – Boch Center Wang Theatre (SOLD OUT)
9/30 – Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre (SOLD OUT)
10/1 – Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre (SOLD OUT)
10/2 – Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre (SOLD OUT)
10/3 – Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre
10/5 – Philadelphia, PA – The Met (SOLD OUT)
10/6 – Washington, DC – Warner Theatre (SOLD OUT)
10/8 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern (SOLD OUT)
10/9 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern (SOLD OUT)
10/11 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at Moody Theater (SOLD OUT)
10/17 – Leeds, UK – O2 Academy Leeds
10/18 – Glasgow, UK – Barrowland Ballroom (SOLD OUT)
10/19 – Edinburgh, UK – Usher Hall
10/20 – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo
10/22 – London, UK – Roundhouse (SOLD OUT)
10/23 – London, UK – Roundhouse
10/24 – London, UK – Roundhouse
10/25 – London, UK – Roundhouse
10/27 – Paris, FR – Le Grand Rex
10/29 – Copenhagen, DK – Vega
10/30 – Oslo, NO – Sentrum Scene
10/31 – Stockholm, SE – Cirkus
11/2 – Aarhus, DK – VoxHall
11/4 – Bremen, DE – Pier 2
11/5 – Berlin, DE – Tempodrom
11/7 – Brussels, BE – Cirque Royal
11/8 – Amsterdam, NL – Royal Carré Theater
11/10 – Dublin, IE – Vicar Street (SOLD OUT)
11/11 – Dublin, IE – Vicar Street (SOLD OUT)
