canned music
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In 2002, its radio stations in Minot, N.D., aired canned music as a toxic cloud blanketed the community after a train transporting anhydrous ammonia for fertilizer derailed and exploded.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
“The energy that comes from live music versus canned music is really palpable, especially in a sports setting,” he said.
From Washington Post • May 11, 2022
From a few feet below you can see the creases of his jowls as he shouts above the canned music.
From The Guardian • Nov. 27, 2020
When he disrupts the canned music at Starbucks to point out that Vermont has plenty of locally owned coffee shops, he signs off with, “Remember: small is kind of nice.”
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2017
The furnishings were very much in keeping with the fixtures and fittings, and his musical instruments were all electrically-automatic machines; and his "canned" music filled the halls and stairways from morning till night.
From Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope by Cumming, R. D. (Robert Dalziel)
