There's quite an article in Coilhouse about misoginy in Industrial music and it really does call your attention as we take too many things for granted and while some attitudes from bands can be taken for simple provocation, the article points out most of what was once a scene build on boldness and adventurous thinking is now very much only a pile up of dangerous cliches and aggressive sexism.

As said in the article "The giants of industrial used subversive tactics to challenge audiences and create new awareness" has now turn to be "a disturbing trend of sexism, racism and anti-intellectualism". Bands like Combichrist or Nachtmahr seem to carry high the torch of violence lyrics against women and their aggressive videos display the band's dangerous stance for displaying women being nothing but objects of lust prone to betray the Alpha Male.

Men do tend to see the world thru a tainted illusion that women want them badly, whatever they do or say, and that women do feel the same way and while rock music has always been macho and superficial, it has most often exagerates the male message in a rather glamourous and silly way, not in what now seems to validate...

The other day, we linked the picture of a poster showing tens of turntables (http://alturl.com/wft56) and it appears, thanx Laurence, that it's a picture taken from Grand Royal, a short-lived (6 issues) but very cool magazine done by The Beastie Boys between 1993 and 1997.

At the time, The Beasties Boys were faced with mails from fans and they really didn't know how to handle it so they decided to go for a real printed magazine instead of a simple newsletter. Hey, why making things simple when you can complicated them ? :) It was a lifestyle magazine, filled with The Beastie Boys interest and fun: kung-fu movies, basket-ball, moog synths, jokes and humour and while it was a success, it was a handful to tame and advertisers hated the very untight schedule: max #2 was released ONE YEAR after its planned release date....The magazine began to sell more and more until 1997 when the band decided to stop doing a printed form and go online. It didn't survive the end of The Beastie Boys record label (Grand Royal Records) and the 6 magazines are now Ebay sensations.

The content was various, from Adam Yauch (RIP)'s interview of Ted...