"Unknown Legend" (Neil Young cover) by Tunde Adebimpe (video)

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New Music: Tunde Adebimpe: "Unknown Legend" (Neil Young cover) [Stream]
Published 10/10/2008 by Marc Hogan at Pitchfork Media - Today
TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe sings, as you know, and he also acts from time to time, as you might also know. In Jonathan Demme-directed Rachel Getting Married, he does both. I haven't seen the movie and I'm hardly a film critic, so I can't speak to Adebimpe's acting chops, but his unaccompanied rendition of Neil Young's "Unknown Legend" is raw, powerful stuff. Makes me wish I was on a desert highway myself, or else back at Roskilde hearing old Neil serenade us with this Harvest Moon ...

Tunde Adebimpe Covers Neil Young
Published 10/10/2008 by Stereogum at Stereogum
Tunde Adebimpe Covers Neil Young thubmnail icon: Tunde Adebimpe Covers Neil Young Death Cab For Cutie are heading on tour with Neil Young , and here's TV On The Radio's beardless singer Tunde Adebimpe covering the man's " Unknown Legend ." Tunde's cover comes from Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married , which as we mentioned, stars a smiling Adebimpe . The spare, lonesome take on the Harvest Moon song's less cheerful, running in sharp contrast to the more mile-a-minute energy of TV On The Radio's current Dear Science focus " Dancing Choose ." Pretty stuff. "She used to work ...

Tunde Adebimpe: Unknown Legend (Neil Young Cover)(Audio)
Published 10/13/2008 at Prefix
Along with Robyn Hitchcock, composer Zafer Tawil and a number of others, TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe has recorded a song for the soundtrack to Rachel Getting Married . And for his contribution Adebimpe quietly covered Neil Young's "Unknown Legend," a track from the icon's 1992 Harvest Moon . The near a capella cover comes in great contrast to the variety of tracks Adebimpe recently released with TV on the Radio on the critically acclaimed Dear Science . The film itself, which also stars Adebimpe alongside Anne Hathaway, is set for a theatrical release of December 5.