The magazine began activity in 1995 and its founder was Marek Kościkiewicz, one of the members of a popular Polish pop rock group De Mono.
Its contributors included Grzegorz Brzozowicz, Paweł Dunin-Wąsowicz, Rafał Bryndal, Daniel Wyszogrodzki, and musician Kazik Staszewski, among others.
[1] Machina was regarded Polish equivalent of the Rolling Stone magazine, covering popular culture, including music, film and literature.
The magazine went out of circulation in 2002, and in 2005, the title was bought by the publisher PMPG Polskie Media with the intention to relaunch Machina.
[2] The reboot issue was published in February 2006 and featured an image of Madonna represented as the Holy Mary, with her daughter Lourdes pictured as Baby Jesus.