Muzak made its mark on American culture by producing generic-sounding songs for office buildings, retail stores and the dentist. Muzak made elevator music, but it's been 25 years since the company ...

The flute hurts. At least it does for fans of rapper André 3000, who, as one half of Outkast, lit up the charts with early-noughties hits such as Ms. Jackson and Hey Ya! But that was a long time ago, ...

For much of the 20th century, it was derided as the Spam of sounds, the pablum of music. Yet in the 21st century, the South Carolina-based company that still calls itself Muzak has enjoyed some of the ...

They were the jaunty, forgettable streams of synthesized music you would hear between the lobby and your floor. But like so many other cultural reference points, the elevator-music industry has faded ...

Whether you know it or not, you’ve been in the mood for some time. That’s Mood Media Corp, one of the world’s largest providers of atmospheric music and visuals (along with digital signage, scent, ...

Muzak Holdings LLC, the company that provides the world with elevator music, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday. The Fort Mills, South Carolina company is facing up to 500 million ...

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NEW YORK -- Muzak Holdings, the maker of elevator music, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday. The company had heavy debt load, and it filed to try to refinance some of its debt. Its ...

“Playing for Keeps” is a blasé work spiked with trifling comic bits and smoothed out with a mellow dilemma that works to limp the film to a predestined conclusion of awkward family bliss. The “Muzak” ...