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 ...

Elevator rides are, at best, uneventful. "Everyone deserves to feel good throughout the day, and elevator muzak is such a drag," they posted on YouTube. Watch their smile-inducing "joy bomb" below: ...

FORT MILL, S.C. — 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 people of a certain age, Muzak is a word like "Kleenex," or "Xerox." It stands for that annoying, easy-listening entertainment piped into elevators and played during on-hold phone calls. And even ...

(CNN)-- Muzak, the company that put pop, string-filled arrangements of rock songs in your elevator, filed bankruptcy papers Tuesday after it missed a $105 million payment to creditors. The pipeline of ...

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“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” ...