VPR Replay

VPR Replay live is Vermont Public Radio's music channel, but don't call it background noise. It's curated with the careful ear you'd expect from a station that also produces some of the best public radio journalism in the country. The playlist roams from classic folk to modern indie, with detours into blues, roots rock, and the occasional jazz standard. One minute you're hearing Gillian Welch's aching harmonies, the next it's a deep cut from The War on Drugs. The 64kbps stream is unmistakably radio-quality - thin but warm, like listening through a transistor radio on a porch. That's part of it…