We have two stories this week: first, the surprising history "elevator music." Turns out, Muzak was a real company. And then we reveal how much Amazon's Alexa and other smart speakers are really ...
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 ...
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 often gets a bad wrap. But comedian Chad Briggs recently gave it another shot — and it shook up his listening world. Muzak — the catch-all name for bland soothing, elevator music — gets a bad ...
The music you only heard in waiting rooms and somehow remember Nobody chose it. Nobody asked for it. It played at a volume ...
The playlist at the 99 Cent store is so bad surely Satan must have devised it, says musical contributor David Was. He reflects on the purpose of piped in store music. Also still working and ...
The Austin-based background music company has just emerged out of bankruptcy, with a continuing appetite for the softer hits or ambient styles it provides. Meanwhile, some fans of the old Muzak still ...
In the early '80s, Devo released two fan club cassettes featuring muzak versions of their songs. Well, now they are re-releasing the entire collection. EZ Listening Muzak will be out March 4 via ...
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