Gold Standard Laboratories

{{short description|Defunct independent record label}}

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| name = Gold Standard Laboratories

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| founded = 1993

| defunct = 2007

| founder = Sonny Kay

| status = Defunct

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| genre = Punk, Progressive, Experimental

| country = United States

| location = Los Angeles, California, USA.

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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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.goldstandardlabs.com/news.html |title=Gold Standard Laboratories: News |website=goldstandardlabs.com |date=October 29, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102103349/http://www.goldstandardlabs.com/news.html |archive-date=November 2, 2007 |access-date=November 10, 2020}}{{Cite web |url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/gold_standard_laboratories_closes_down |title=Gold Standard Laboratories Closes Down |work=Exclaim! |date=October 30, 2007 |last=Lindsay |first=Cam |access-date=November 10, 2020}}

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