Dick Dale, a groundbreaking '60s musician known as the "King of the Surf Guitar," who later experienced resurgent success with his signature song's presence in an iconic Quentin Tarantino flick, has ...

Pulp Fiction is so flashy, it’s easy to overlook the slow build of spectacular reveals. But amid the snake-tongued dialogue, the bursts of violence, the mood-rich settings and a stunning soundtrack, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like “Misirlou” and “Let’s Go Trippin'” earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81 ...

Breaking Bad was no stranger to pop culture references, mentioning everything from the 1978 Burt Reynolds vehicle Hooper to Saul derisively calling Skyler the Yoko Ono to Walt’s John Lennon (Badger is ...

The Soundtrack: From the rumbling reverb of Dick Dale’s surf-rock rendition of “Misirlou” to the soulful crooning of Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a Preacher Man” and the strip club sexiness of Kool & ...

The moment the guitar on Dick Dale’s “Misirlou” struck on the soundtrack of “Pulp Fiction” and those giant titles slowly, methodically crawl up the screen, we knew we were in the hands of a master.

Wearing his trademark headband and a leather jacket, Dick Dale played a thrilling rendition of his hit “Miserlou” — the theme music for Pulp Fiction — on the U.K. music variety show Jools’ Annual ...

Drugs, murder, and mayhem—they’re no strangers to high-stakes cinema. So what happens when these aspects are translated to television? The Sopranos and The Wire proved that millions of viewers (from ...

Twenty years ago today, a little movie called Pulp Fiction hit theaters. And in the fall of 1994, if there was anything more ubiquitous than talk about the movie, it was the soundtrack. For a lot of ...

INSKEEP: In 1962, "Misirlou," which we're hearing now, introduced music fans around the world to Dick Dale. This was a tune with staying power. It was heard decades later in the movie "Pulp Fiction." ...