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{{Short description|Henry Rollins' indie publishing company}}
{{more citations needed|date=September 2015}}
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|founder=[[Henry Rollins]]
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|hq_location=United States
|products=[[Record company]], [[publisher]]
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'''2.13.61, Inc.''' is a publisher and record company founded by American musician [[Henry Rollins]] and named after his date of birth (February 13, 1961). The company has released albums by the [[Rollins Band]], all of Rollins' [[spoken word]] work, and numerous books. It is based in [[Los Angeles, California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://henryrollins.com/contact|title=Contact|publisher=Henry Rollins|accessdate=July 23, 2013}}</ref>

In his mass-market anthology ''The Portable Henry Rollins'', Rollins stated that he had given 2.13.61 its name because someone had told him that his first self-released book, ''20'' (1984), had to have a company name on it, and since he felt at the time that he would only ever get to release one book, he simply used his birthdate.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rollins|first=Henry|author-link=Henry Rollins|title=The Portable Henry Rollins|page=xi|publisher=[[Random House]]|year=2009|ISBN=978-0-307-56809-0}}</ref>

2.13.61 branched out into releasing records not long after Rollins started a solo career following the breakup of [[Black Flag (band)|Black Flag]], initially just releasing Rollins' spoken-word albums. The first two 2.13.61 releases, ''Big Ugly Mouth'' and ''Sweatbox'', were first co-released with the label Rollins was signed with at the time as a musician, [[Texas Hotel Records]].  Since then, the label has branched out into various rock and jazz releases and even spawned two specialist reissue sublabels, Infinite Zero Archive (a joint venture with [[Rick Rubin]]'s [[American Recordings (US)|American Recordings]]), and District Line, which specializes in reissuing the music of Rollins' hometown of [[Washington, D.C.]] It is also used as the name of Rollins' Blazin' (finishing move) in the video game ''[[Def Jam: Fight for NY]]''.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

The literary company's authors include: Henry Rollins (Publisher, Black Flag), [[Iggy Pop]] ([[The Stooges]]), [[Exene Cervenka]] (X, Auntie Christ, The Knitters), [[Nick Cave]] (Birthday Party, Bad Seeds, [[Grinderman]]), [[Michael Gira]] ([[Swans (band)|Swans]]), Joe Cole, Tricia Warden, Don Bajema, Bill Shields, Jeffery Lee Pierce (The Gun Club), and Ellyn Maybe.

== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{official|https://www.twothirteensixtyone.com/}}

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[[Category:American record labels]]
[[Category:Book publishing companies based in California]]
[[Category:Spoken word record labels]]
[[Category:Vanity record labels]]


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