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On 11/11/11 — and in honor of the Nigel Tufnel, the Spinal Tap guitarist whose amps went up to 11 — we've taken thousands of your nominations and compiled a list of songs that sound best turned up loud.

The rapper, famous for making light of being overweight, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

The Nova Scotian stalwarts attribute their longevity to a tight code of democracy and avoiding the spotlight.

The year's biggest hit exists for a single purpose: to embed its big dumb hook deep in your brain.

The service has won over users in Europe and generated interested in the U.S. by offering a simple service. It has a huge catalog of music that can be streamed, combined into playlists and accessed from any computer with an Internet connection, for free.

After unsold tickets and canceled tours marred last year's summer concert season, the industry has regrouped in an effort to win back fans who have grown tired of high ticket prices and fees.

Apple's cloud-based service tracks the music and other digital property on a listener's hard drive and makes it available wirelessly to devices that can connect to the Internet. iCloud, which arrives after a long negotiation with the major record labels, will be available for free this fall.

Even though their music has stayed vibrant, playful and young, the men behind it have grown up.

A member of the band since 2005, Smith passed away one month after revealing his battle with lung cancer.

The Baltimore duo reveals how a Discovery Channel documentary influenced a song on their new album.