2.13.61

2.13.61, Inc. is a publisher and record company founded by American musician Henry Rollins and named after his date of birth. 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.
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, 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.
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, 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' in the video game Def Jam: Fight for NY.
The literary company's authors include: Henry Rollins, Iggy Pop, Exene Cervenka, Nick Cave, Michael Gira, Joe Cole, Tricia Warden, Don Bajema, Bill Shields, Jeffery Lee Pierce, and Ellyn Maybe.