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May 2022 Henry Rollins' indie publishing company 2.13.61 Henry Rollins Music, books United States Record label, publisher twothirteensixtyone.com 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.http://henryrollins.com/contact Contact Henry Rollins July 23, 2013No White Flag Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-12-ca-62886-story.html John Roos January 12, 1999https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-rolling-stone-interview-henry-rollins-249518/ Rolling Stone The Rolling Stone Interview Henry Rollins December 23, 1993 David Fricke 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.Rollins Henry Henry Rollins The Portable Henry Rollins xi Random House 2009 978-0-307-56809-0 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.IGN https://www.ign.com/articles/2005/10/25/hands-on-w-50-cent-bulletproof Hands-on w/ 50 Cent Jason Allen May 18, 2012 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. References External links https://www.twothirteensixtyone.com/ expanded Category:American record labels Category:Book publishing companies based in California Category:Spoken word record labels Category:Vanity record labels