Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Faith No More frontman Mike Patton played a special collaborative show with turntable master DJ QBert at The Chapel in San Francisco last night. They were also joined by Beastie Boys keyboardist Money ...

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 ...