music business

DJs spin the new elevator music

Some of L.A.’s hottest DJs work for a firm from Concord, Ont., finding Muzak for a new generation of shoppers

How hit songs become advertising sound-alikes

‘Please rip off the Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Lumineers’

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Desperately seeking the next Pavarotti

Opera’s obsession with finding a new star tenor can end up ruining a singer’s career