Giger is often referred to in pop culture, especially in science fiction and cyberpunk.

The term is frequently borrowed for other uses, such as raising one species of livestock in a factory farm, or even in fields other than agriculture to describe any group dominated by a single variety, e. g. in the field of musicology to describe the dominance of the American and British music-industries in pop music, or in the field of computer science to describe a group of computers all running identical software.

Beginning with the success of Dr. Dre and G-funk rap in the mid 1990s, many hip hop producers began turning to a more synthesized sound, resulting in the rise of " superproducers " such as The Neptunes, who cultivated a science fiction image with sleek, overtly electronic beats, and Timbaland, who did likewise and also was known for creative sampling, rising to fame for his work with Aaliyah and Missy Elliott and producing a variety of pop and R & B records for artists such as Justin Timberlake.

The EMP Museum ( formerly known as Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame or EMP | SFM ) is a museum dedicated to the history and exploration of popular music, science fiction and pop culture located in Seattle, Washington.

Space rock is a subgenre of rock music ; the term originally referred to a group of early, mostly British, 1970s progressive and psychedelic rock bands such as Hawkwind and Pink Floyd, characterised by slow, lengthy instrumental passages dominated by electronic organs, synthesizers, experimental guitar work and science fiction or astronomical lyrical themes, though it was later repurposed to refer to a series of late 1980s British alternative rock bands that drew from earlier influences to create a more ambient but still melodic form of pop music.

Japanese pop culture holds Char Aznable in very much the same way western pop culture views science fiction icons Darth Vader and Spock.

Replicator's sound was often associated with science fiction, paranoia, and somewhat obscure pop culture references, the band frequently cited the fact that they did not have any love songs in their press materials.

His books usually carry the outward conventions of the science fiction genre, but are used to construct involved, multi-layered postmodernist texts, fusing together elements of pop culture and esoteric philosophies.

Every issue either has a satire on American History or science fiction or some other type of pop culture.

The Past Testament contains a comprehensive view of science, history, philosophy, morality, and literature as understood by the Baby Boomers from pop culture and an ineffective educational system:

The zine had daily content, and focused on media, pop culture, technology, science and the arts.

For example, Thomas Pynchon includes in his novels elements from detective fiction, science fiction, and war fiction ; songs ; pop culture references ; well-known, obscure, and fictional history mixed together ; real contemporary and historical figures ( Mickey Rooney and Wernher von Braun for example ); a wide variety of well-known, obscure and fictional cultures and concepts.

Originally showcasing comic books, science fiction / fantasy and film / television, and related popular arts, the convention now includes a larger range of pop culture elements, such as horror, animation, anime, manga, toys, collectible card games, video games, webcomics, and fantasy novels.

Pyke appears on the 1982 pop song, and the video, " She Blinded Me With Science " by Thomas Dolby, where he shouts " science " and provides other sound bites.

A notable version of In the Year 2525 is sung by the Italo-French pop singer, Dalida ; another one by the UK new romantic group Visage ; another one by Greek singer Takis Antoniadis in the 70s, another version was used as the theme song for the short-lived science fiction series Cleopatra 2525.

In 2009, Wizard World acquired the Big Apple Convention, New York City's longest-running comic book, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and pop culture convention.

In content, Hitherbies tend toward the surreal and fantastic, are often humorous, and incorporate elements of philosophy, computer science, and pop culture.

The latter series in particular enshrined itself within the pop culture of a generation in a manner in which few television series are able, and the entire decade produced a rich vein of highly successful science fiction shows.

In addition, Virgil utilizes his knowledge of science and pop culture in various battles and scenarios as Static.

In 2006, along with Jon Tickle and despite the fact that he has no scientific knowledge, Wood co-presented the UK pop science show Brainiac's Test Tube Baby, a spin off of Brainiac: Science Abuse which airs on Thursdays at 8pm on Sky One.

In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Fiedler began to seriously undertake the enterprise of pop culture criticism, with an emphasis on science fiction.

Also, the column is known for randomly placed items and rants on various topics on politics, science fiction, actual science, and various television, film, and pop culture items.

While the Super Bowl XX Champion Bears were a fixture of mainstream American pop culture in the 1980s, the Bears made a prior mark with the 1971 American TV movie Brian's Song starring Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

In 2006, Hayden Panettiere, star of Bring It On: All or Nothing, took another cheerleading role as Claire Bennet, the cheerleader with an accelerated healing factor on NBC's hit sci-fi TV series Heroes, launching cheerleading back into the limelight of pop culture.

This was a question-and-answer feature dealing with readers ' queries on all forms of pop entertainment of which Rosa was a student, including comics, TV and movies ..

Devo remained popular in countries such as Australia, where the nationally broadcast 1970s – 1980s pop TV show Countdown was one of the first programs in the world to broadcast their video clips.

The earliest significant usage of the term ( as applied to music ) was by Joy Division's producer, Tony Wilson on 15 September 1979 in an interview for the BBC TV program's Something Else: Wilson described Joy Division as " Gothic " compared to the pop mainstream, right before a live performance of the band.

Shows like MAD TV, The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live parody Cosby, using Jell-O references like " pudding pop ".

The company has over 50 years of entertainment metadata including more than 1 million TV series episodes, more than 1. 6 million pop and classical music albums and 13 million tracks and more than 420, 000 movie titles.

** Anna Kumble, English pop singer and TV presenter

Bono is the only child of Cher and Sonny Bono of the pop duo Sonny & Cher, stars of a TV variety show on which the young child often appeared.

Accompanied by the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 TV series, and the subsequent action figure line, the TMNT were soon catapulted into pop culture history.

As the entries below tend to testify, Pierrot is most visible ( as in the 18th century ) in unapologetically popular genres — in circus acts and street-mime sketches, TV programs and Japanese anime, comic books and graphic novels, children's books and " young adult " fiction ( especially fantasy and, in particular, vampire fiction ), Hollywood films, and pop and rock music.

" The pre-empted shows were parodies of current TV shows ( e. g. The A-Team Makes One Cup of Coffee Last Five Hours, " Hanging Out " or " Malls ", 1984 ), movies ( e. g. Top Gun Gets Put on Latrine-Cleaning Duty, " Discipline ", 1986 ), or other pop culture icons ( e. g. Boy George Without Make-up, " Halloween ", 1984 ), and were often relevant to the theme of the current episode ( e. g. the pre-empted show for " Safety " ( 1981 ) was Hit and Run on Sesame Street ).

In Australia, promotional films by Australian pop performers were being made on a regular basis by 1966 ; in 1968 singer Lynne Randell featured in one of the first promotional clips for an Australian act that was filmed in colour, but most Australian clips from this period were in black and white, because Australia did not convert to colour TV until early 1975.

) and who lived on Court Lane until shortly before her death in 1994 ; TV personality Sue Perkins in 1969 ; footballer Trevor Sinclair in 1973 ; and Su-Elise Nash, former pop singer with Mis-teeq in 1981.

Sesto sang in two pop bands during the 1960s and won a contest in a Madrid TV show.

But it was their second single, " Go Now " ( released later that year ), which really launched their career, being promoted on TV with one of the first purpose-made promotional films in the pop era, produced and directed by Alex Wharton.

The following year, Ives re-recorded all three of these Johnny Marks hits, which Ives had sung in the TV special, but with a more " pop " feel than in the TV special.

They rapidly rose in popularity with each chart success, becoming regulars on British pop TV shows such as Ready Steady Go!

* Andy Kubiszewski has filled in as the drummer for a handful of Prick shows, joined a new project called Affected with Chris Schleyer, written and produced several songs for the popular Russian pop duo t. A. T. u., and has composed music for dozens of TV shows ( including Monster Garage, Monster House, Ax Men, America's Toughest Jobs, The Colony ), SWORDS-Life On The Line, Hillstranded, and most recently Storage Wars.

He produced pop music on records and TV, but his most successful venture was writing " Palisades Park ".

In February 1999, the WB Television Network also launched the American version of Pokémon in the Kids ' WB blocks, which they acquired from syndication ( TV Tokyo ) earlier that year and became a widespread pop culture phenomenon.

On April 16, The Early Show scored a coup with the broadcast of British pop music sensation Susan Boyle singing live for an American TV audience.

Smith was co-author, with her brother, of the much-revered TV pop culture fanzine Teenage Gang Debs when Allison and Molly asked her to jam with them.