Grand Royal
Grand Royal was the Los Angeles, California-based vanity record label set up in 1992 by the Beastie Boys in conjunction with Capitol Records after the group left Def Jam Recordings.
Due to mounting debts, Grand Royal went out of business in 2001. Its assets were sold off via auction on Bid4Assets; these assets did not include any rights to Beastie Boys music. The assets and back catalog were purchased by a group of fans who in turn started GR2 Records. In 2016, GR2 sold the rights and master recordings of Grand Royal's second release My Crazy Life to a member of the band Dead Fucking Last.
Grand Royal was also the name of a magazine written and published by the group. The total distribution of the six issues of Grand Royal was estimated at 300,000 copies.
Grand Royal was most famous for its article "Mulling Over the Mullet" in issue two, which lampooned the mullet hairstyle.
