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, United States, 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. Artists 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 Demonstrations Fatal Flyin' Guillotines 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! The Vanishing Vaz Veronica Lipgloss & The Evil Eyes The VSS Vue With Love Woodpussy XBXRX Xiu Xiu Year Future References External links American independent record labels Record labels established in 1993 Record labels disestablished in 2007 Alternative rock record labels Defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles 1993 establishments in Colorado 2007 disestablishments in California