Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

If you'd like to catch some live music tonight, you may find some surprising options without even leaving home. Online, bands are performing concerts — and making money — using virtual venues.

Imagine you wrote some of the most enduring songs in 1960s rock, but then got so mired in legal and financial issues with those same songs that you felt you couldn't play them.

That was the story of John Fogerty and the music of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Today, ...