Last Sunday (one day after the Kvelertak show), backlit with our lady of liberty and the east river’s special scum, The King of the Surf Guitar, Dick Dale played the perfect venue– on the water. The ...

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The surf’s up in California (thanks to Hurricane Marie from Mexico) as 15-foot waves have been pounding beaches from Mexico to Malibu. I just heard Dick Dale‘s most famous surf song, “Misirlou” and ...

This past summer, Billboard ran an article on surf rock guitar legend Dick Dale, about how he’s (literally) touring to stay alive. The guitarist, who just turned 79 earlier this month, pays his ...

Fans and fellow musicians are remembering Dick Dale, who died Saturday at 81. Dale's sound inspired legions of musicians back in the 1960s and into the 21st century. Fans and fellow musicians today ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dick Dale wanted to play the guitar to mimic how he felt when he went surfing. That’s how Peter Townend — as Dale was inducted into the Surfing Walk of Fame ...

Surf-music lovers will always revere Dick Dale as the King of Surf Music. To the band mates and musicians who were with him in the beginning, the waves of memories left by his passing carry the ...

Dale told Fresh Air in 1993 that his distinctive guitar style came, in part, from the ocean waves he surfed: "The waves did create my feelings of that sound." Dale died March 16. DICK DALE: Guitar ...

The Beach Boys may have perfected surf music, but Dick Dale invented it. Dale, who died of heart and kidney failure Saturday at age 81, singlehandedly created the distinctive surf-guitar sound that ...

Dick Dale, a California-based musician and surfer whose rumbling and percussive guitar work drew inspiration from the thundering force of ocean waves, earning him the title king of surf guitar, died ...