Machine Head Retrospective (Part 1): Burn My Eyes - RPC Jukebox #9 | RPC | Renegade Pop Culture - Podcasts on Animation, Movies, and Video games

Tonight, on a very special episode of Renegade Jukebox, Captain Kaye and Nick go Blood for Blood to discuss the long and storied career of Machine Head in anticipation for a new album later this summer!

How’s it going, fellow Renegades? It’s THE DIRECTOR back once again to keep this gravy train of a new year a rollin’! And what better way to do that than with another retrospective from the Jukebox?

That’s right, Captain Kaye is joined by his co-host Nick to discuss one of the most legendary rock bands of all time: Machine Head! This has been a passion project long in the making from the Jukebox dudes, and with the announcement that a new album is going to be coming out later this summer? It feels like the stars have aligned for this to be the perfect time to talk about them!

If you’re new to Machine Head or a longtime fan? Check out the show! It’s a fun one, and the passion just pours out the MP3!

Well, that’ll do it for this episode! Special thanks to Jacob for editing this episode, and for Nick for coming on! Keep an eye to the stage, because we’ll have a new performance of a podcast coming very soon…

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