It is well known that the practice of scratching records first came from New York by originators such as Grand Wizard Theodore, while the legendary Kool Herc was experimenting with doubles to keep ...

Long before DJ Qbert fell in love with turntable scratching, the Daly City native was obsessed with video games. "My dad bought a console at a flea market," he remembers. "It was just Pong. That was ...

Thanks to hip-hop deejays, the turntable was transformed from a playback device into a musical instrument three decades ago. And no one makes the tables sing quite like Richard Quitevis, better known ...

If you have any remote interest in the art of DJing, you should definitely try to check out this event: San Francisco's DJ Qbert will be performing at the Ruby Room on Saturday as part of the SD Union ...

DJ QBert, born Richard Quitevis, is widely regarded as the most highly skilled skratching dj that has walked this planet. His long-standing career of innovating the DJ culture has set off a worldwide ...

To mark Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we'll be running Q&As with noteworthy Asian Americans throughout May. Read them all here. The turntablist/DJ community includes a lot of Asians and Asian ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Faith No More singer and man of a thousand voices Mike Patton takes the stage at the Chapel this weekend for two nights of unique collaboration with virtuoso scratch master ...

Activision is looking to deliver, once again, this fall, the sequel to the surprisingly successful DJ Hero. For fans of the upcoming game, Activision has been hard at working mixing up some good news ...

It was previously announced that Canadian House DJ Deadmau5 and David Guetta appear in DJ Hero 2. Today we got word from Activision that the king of the scratch DJs, Qbert, will also be included in ...

There are DJs, and then there are DJs, and then there’s DJ QBert. Sources say QBert grew up in San Francisco, born with the name Richard Quitevis, graduating in 1987 from Balboa High. Those sources ...

Those who grew up with this true-school turntablist always knew that DJ Qbert would soon become San Francisco's pre-eminent hometown hip-hop hero. Qbert (a.k.a. Richard Quitevis) got the itch to ...