The 5min Blog

From naughty leather pants to hauntingly bad hair, for some of us, metal happens to be one of those endearing musical genres reminiscent of rebellious youth, which makes it all that much harder to outgrow and – like a bad mullet – leave behind in the dustbin of history.
However, in recent months I have been [...]

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Now that our fingers have fully recovered from hours upon hours of intensive Guitar Hero and Rock Band training, the team at 5min is fully prepared to harness the power of the real thing – yes, we’re talking about that classic wooden instrument long associated with a rockin’ good time – the guitar.
Luckily for us, [...]

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I always wanted to be a rock star. Well, who hasn’t? But I took it too seriously, and at the age of 15, I got an electric guitar and became the nightmare of the neighborhood. The main problem with that is that my teacher, a progressive rock local hero, spent more hours telling me about [...]

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For years, the closest I’ve come to playing guitar was dating musicians. In fact, until the release of Guitar Hero, which at least promoted me to a semi-amateur level by planting a plastic toy guitar in my hands, my musical mojo was pretty much limited to the repertoire of a long line of guitar-shredding boyfriends, [...]

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