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 ...

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 ...

One of Canada's fastest-growing companies is based in Austin, Tex. Well, almost. The in-store media company Mood Media Corp. is in the process of moving there. But not from Canada – no, from the ...

A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong By Joseph Lanza University of Michigan. 1994, 2004 reissue. $18.95. An instrumental version of "Have You Never Been Mellow" -- does it ...

MCEVERS: Back in 1989, Mark Davis started working at his local Kmart in Naperville, Ill., and this is what he heard on the store's loudspeakers all day. MCEVERS: But rather than try to shake this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...