Grand Royal was the Los Angeles, California based record label set up in 1992 by The Beastie Boys in conjunction with Capitol Records after they left Def Jam Records. The City of Los Angeles (from Spanish; Los Ángeles) is the second-largest city in the United States in terms of population, as well as one of the worlds most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers. ... State nickname: The Golden State Official languages English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Senators Dianne Feinstein (D) Barbara Boxer (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 4. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The Beastie Boys as depicted on the cover of their 1992 album Check Your Head. ... Capitol record by Wingy Manone Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, founded in 1942. ... Def Jam is a hip-hop record label founded in 1984 by Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons with artists like LL Cool J, Run DMC and The Beastie Boys. ...

Due to mounting debts, Grand Royal went out of business in 2001. Its assets were sold off via auction; these assets did not include any rights to Beastie Boys music. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

Grand Royal was also the name of a magazine written and published by the band. It was most famous for its article "Mulling Over The Mullet" in issue 2 which lampooned the mullet hairstyle. Sketch of a mullet The mullet is a type of haircut, in which the hair is long at the back of the head (usually at least to the shoulders), but cut shorter on the top, front, and sides of the head. ...

Artists of Grand Royal Records

• Alec Empire
• Atari Teenage Riot
• At The Drive-In
• Bash Ton
• Beastie Boys
• Ben Lee
• Big Fat Love
• Bis
• BS 2000
• Buffalo Daughter
• Butter 08
• Dead Fucking Last
• Defacto
• Derek Allan
• DJ Strictnine & Paranorm
• EC8OR
• Hurricane
• Jimmy Eat World
• Josephine Wiggs Experience
• Kostars
• Ladies Who Lunch
• Liquid Liquid
• Luscious Jackson
• Moistboyz
• Noise Addict
• Money Mark
• Nullset
• Mr. Lif
• The Prunes
• Russell Simins
• Sean Lennon
• Shizuo
• Shizuo Vs Shizor
• Sukpatch
• SuperSexyRazorHappyGirls
• Techno Animal
• Siud

Alec Empire (born May 2, 1972) is a German musician. ... Atari Teenage Riot is a German hardcore techno group formed in Berlin in 1992. ... At the Drive-In: (l-r) Omar, Tony, Jim, Paul, Cedric At the Drive-In were a post-hardcore band from El Paso, Texas from 1993 until 2001. ... Ben Lee (left) with an excited fan Ben Lee (born on September 11, 1978) is an Australian born musician. ... Bis was a Scottish rock band—Steven Clark (Sci-fi Steven), John Clark (John Disco), and Amanda MacKinnon (Manda Rin). ... BS 2000 the name of a musical side project by Adam Adrock Horowitz and Amery AWOL Smith. ... Buffalo Daughter is a Japanese rock group active in the 1990s and early 2000s. ... See De facto for the Latin expression DeFacto DeFacto were a dub reggae side project of Cedric Bixler Zavala, and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of At The Drive-In, keyboardist Isaiah Ikey Owens, and soundman Jeremy Michael Ward. ... Already both involved with Alec Empires Digital Hardcore Recordings, Patric Catani and Gina V. DOrio formed EC8OR in 1995. ... This article is about weather phenomena. ... Jimmy Eat World is an American rock group from Mesa, Arizona, formed in 1993. ... Josephine Wiggs is an indie/alternative rock musician, noted for parts in Perfect Disaster, The Breeders, and her own project The Josephine Wiggs Experience. ... Liquid Liquid were a band who were active from 1980 to 1983. ... Luscious Jackson (1991 in New York, NY-2000) was an all-woman band named for a 60s basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers (Lucious Brown Jackson). ... Moistboyz is the rap/rock duo of Mickey Melchiondo Jr. ... Noise Addict was an Australian pop/punk band, formed in Bondi Beach in 1992, originally consisting of Ben Lee, Doron Kalinko, Daniel Mapp, and Saul Smith. ... Money Mark is a producer and musician who has collaborated with the Beastie Boys from America many times, and his album Push the button was well received by the music press. ... Mr. ... Sean Lennon Sean Taro Ono Lennon (aka Sean Ono Lennon, born October 9, 1975) is the son of musicians and peace activists John Lennon and Yoko Ono. ... Shizuo was the Digital Hardcore Recordings manifestation of David Hammer, with occasional vocals and an animated stage show by Annika Trost. ... Techno Animal is an Electronic Music duo formed in 1990 by Justin Broadrick of Godflesh and Kevin Martin of God (band). ...

See also

• List of record labels