The music you only heard in waiting rooms and somehow remember Nobody chose it. Nobody asked for it. It played at a volume ...

When you hear the name Muzak, you probably think of the type of easy listening music one often encounters in elevators or while on hold at a call center. Where does the term Muzak come from, and where ...

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 ...

Muzak is dying. Long live Muzak. That great musical mainstay of elevators, shopping centers, and other hellish waiting places is getting consolidated by its owner Mood Media, melding inside their own ...

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 ...

About the only quiet places in the headquarters of Muzak Holdings LLC are, believe it or not, the building’s elevators. The omission is intentional. Muzak management wants visitors to know that the ...

Whether you know it as background music, elevator music, or, as Ted Nugent once called it, an “evil force causing people to collapse into uncontrollable fits of blandness,” Muzak has ruled speakers ...

"If you want more Mozart in your life, start loitering." The managers of certain public commercial spaces, such as shopping centres and railway stations, have seen the use of these spaces by youths ...

FORT MILL, S.C. — About the only quiet places in the headquarters of Muzak Holdings are, believe it or not, the elevators. That’s intentional. Muzak management wants visitors to know the company has ...

Muzak is best known for its background music that drives you crazy in the elevator, but as I discovered — they made amazing tube amplifiers as well. Life is definitely unpredictable; something that ...