Surf rock wouldn't be the same without Dick Dale.

This is an exciting time to be an artist. The digital revolution is providing new tools daily and, at the same time, old forms have not completely disappeared, allowing artists who are so inclined to ...

Like a lot of people in my generation, I heard Dick Dale’s “Misirlou” for the first time in the opening credits of Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.” It was 1994, I was fourteen, and my friend Bobby, ...

The tune "Misirlou" has traveled quite a path, from klezmer music to 1950s exotica acts and finally to surf guitar and an appearance in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction. Many of you heard it again in a Jan.

Dale unleashed his version of "Misirlou" in 1962, transforming the traditional eastern Mediterranean song with rapid-fire picking, pounding drums, and a wall of electric guitar. The recording became a ...

"What you did with that was extraordinary," said judge Simon Cowell. "You have a really real special talent here." By Tyler Jenke 19-year-old guitarist Silas Luke Jones has received a standing ovation ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 1927, an Istanbul-born Greek musician, Tetos Demetriades, having recently translocated to the US, recorded a piece ...

Pioneering musician was known for 1962 hit Misirlou, the theme from Pulp Fiction Dick Dale: the surf guitar king whose wave kept on rolling The guitarist Dick Dale, the pioneer of surf rock known for ...

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