please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . september 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message 2.13.61 industry music books founder henry rollins headquarters united states products record company publisher website 21361 . themerchcollective.com 2.13.61 inc. is a publisher and record company founded by musician henry rollins and named after his date of birth february 13 1961 . 1 the company has released albums by the rollins band all of rollins s spoken word work and numerous books . it is based in los angeles california . 2 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 . citation needed 2.13.61 branched out into releasing records not long after rollins started a solo career following the breakup of 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 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 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 joe cole tricia warden don bajema bill shields jeffery lee pierce the gun club and ellyn maybe . see also edit list of record labels references edit biography.com contact . henry rollins . retrieved 2013 07 23 . external links edit official website this article about a united states publishing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a united states record label is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title 2.13.61 & oldid 703936745 categories american record labelsbook publishing companies based in californiaspoken word record labelsvanity record labels2 .13.61 united states publishing company stubsunited states record label stubshidden categories articles needing additional references from september 2015all articles needing additional referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from september 2015all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages norsk bokm lportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 8 february 2016 at 15 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view