Gold Standard Laboratories

Gold Standard Laboratories
Founded	1993
Founder	Sonny Kay
Status	Defunct
Genre	Punk, Progressive, Experimental
Country of origin	USA
Location	Los Angeles, California, USA.
Official Website	http://www.goldstandardlabs.com/

Gold Standard Laboratories or GSL was an independent record label which was founded in 1993 in Boulder, Colorado by Sonny Kay. In 2000, it was relocated to San Diego, California, USA, and two years later, to Los Angeles. It was headquartered in L.A. until closing its doors on October 29, 2007.

Beginning in 2001, GSL was co-owned by The Mars Volta's Omar Rodríguez-López.

Roster

Bands appearing on GSL:

• !!!
• 400 Blows
• '57 Lesbian
• A Luna Red
• An Albatross
• Anavan
• Arab On Radar
• Armatron
• Attractive and Popular
• Beautiful Skin
• Big Sir
• Bunny Genghis
• Chromatics
• Crime in Choir
• Coaxial
• The Convocation Of...
• Cut City
• Dead and Gone
• De Facto
• Die Princess Die
• Dmonstrations
• The Faint
• Favourite Sons
• Free Moral Agents
• Get Hustle
• GoGoGo Airheart
• Heart of Snow
• The Holy Kiss
• I Am Spoonbender
• Indian Jewelry
• Jaga Jazzist
• The Jai-Alai Savant
• JR Ewing
• Juhl
• Kill Me Tomorrow
• Le Shok
• The Locust
• Lost Kids
• Malcriada
• The Mars Volta
• Meanface
• Melt-Banana
• Mohinder
• Neon King Kong
• Omar A. Rodríguez-López
• Omega Cinco
• Out Hud
• The Pattern
• The Phantom Limbs
• Physics
• Pleasure Forever
• The Rapture
• Red Eyed Legends
• Rhythm of Black Lines
• SABERTOOTH . TIGER
• Semiautomatic
• Soiled Doves
• The Starlite Desperation
• The Starvations
• The Stitches
• Subpoena the Past
• Subtitle
• Sunshine
• Tender Buttons
• Triclops!
• Vanishing
• Vaz
• Veronica Lipgloss & The Evil Eyes
• The VSS
• Vue
• With Love
• Woodpussy
• XBXRX
• Xiu Xiu
• Year Future

External links

• Official website