Music can elicit certain moods or reflect listeners’ moods, so a music-oriented company like Vevo might be able to glean listeners receptivity from the music they choose. Or so the theory goes. Eyal ...

Muzak is in trouble. Since 1934, the popular company has been providing retailers with musical strategies to boost worker productivity, encourage consumerism, and manipulate mood in a brick-and-mortar ...

Music is one of the most important things in many people’s day-to-day lives. Even more so when you work in music, that’s something our next guest knows well. Peter Folliard is the Dean of the ...

In yesterday's Wall Street Journal, I wrote an essay on the history of easy-listening music and its 70th anniversary, which as you'd expect was completely overlooked (go here). Easy listening was ...

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 ...