AP - The Doobie Brothers had a real simple goal for their first album in a decade.

Reuters - One August night a few weeks ago, as the Doobie Brothers were playing before 18,000 ardent fans in Montana, founding guitarist Pat Simmons looked out into the audience. "I see this guy in dreads; he's probably 18 years old.

Reuters - The Doobie Brothers have reunited with '70s producer Ted Templeman for their first new album in a decade, "World Gone Crazy," which is due out on September 28.

If you follow internet memes, you've probably heard about a new computer application called Microsoft Songsmith, which, according to its maker, "generates musical accompaniment to match a singer's voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC's microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you." You present it with a vocal, and...