With pleasure we’d like to welcome the great WILCO on board. Check out their latest designs as well as some of their oldies and goldies here.

It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce the coming of a new album of Nashville’s finest: LAMBCHOP on February 20, and, if we may add, despite this being the band’s eleventh album, the upcoming ‘MR. M’ will stand the test of time as one of the band’s very best offerings, right up there with the likes of “Nixon” and “Is A Woman”.

The Album is available in 4 Formats:
Standard digipak CD
Limited Edition CD incl. DVD “Live At Admiralspalast, Berlin 2010″ & bonus material
Double LP 180g double vinyl, gatefold cover, incl. free download
Limited “SUPER DELUXE” edition box set:
Limited to 200 copies worldwide, these signed & hand numbered Super Deluxe linen boxes contain:
• MR. M Double LP
• Limited Edition CD/DVD
• 5 exclusive extra download tracks
• 11 30x30cm art prints by Kurt Wagner
• a high quality 21x15cm photo of the artist

Also we’ve decided to make LAMBCHOP’s backcatalog available at a special price.

CALEXICO – ROAD ATLAS 1998-2011 (12LP vinyl box set)

Ladies and gentlemen,

Calexico are going to release a heavy duty 12LP vinyl box set containing the complete collection of their tour-only CDs available on vinyl for the first time ever!
(previously sold exclusively as compact discs at Calexico’s live concerts). Limited hand-numbered edition of only 1.100 worldwide, with only 500 of these to Europe and Frocksteady is the exclusive place to pre-order these gems.

The box is a heavy duty slip case wrapped in blue linen and silk screened with silver ink. 8 Albums in printed album jackets with printed inner sleeves. 12 vinyl records (4 LP albums, 4 double LP albums), a 40 page book in 12″ format, an mp3 download coupon for all 12 records as well as previously unreleased bonustracks.

Click here to place your pre-order today!

SONIC YOUTH DVD & T-SHIRT BUNDLES

The long out of print classic, 1991: The Year Punk Broke is finally out on DVD! The film capture Sonic Youth and friends (most notably a pre-”Nevermind” Nirvana) on a two week European tour and has long been considered a classic “fly on the wall” view of a time before the break out of Nirvana and everything that followed in it’s wake. All footage has been fully restored with audio re-synced and remastered in uncompressed PCM stereo under the supervision of Sonic Youth

As a special bonus, we’re offering a discount on ALL Sonic Youth tees with the purchase of the DVD. Order “The Year Punk Broke” together with a Sonic Youth T-Shirt of your choice and get the bundle for 30 Euros. That’s 7 Euros discount. (Items will be automatically discounted in your shopping cart). Get’em while supply lasts!!

Hey friends & neighbors,

We are proud to be participating in this year’s Berlin Festival (September 9 & 10) where we’ll have a stand offering lots of the items from our shop as well as some of the finest music committed to vinyl (yeah, and CD too) from our friends at City Slang and Souterrain Transmissions. To commemorate the occasion we’ll be handing out flyers with a special code that will get you 20% off on your next order orders on Frocksteady.com.

For those of you who can’t attend the festival, we won’t exclude you. Simply ‘like’ us on our Facebook page and the special discount code in the tabs on the left side.

Your Frocksteady Crew

OK, it’s been too long since our last update! We’re proud to welcome Screaming Females, Sufjan Stevens, Parts & Labor and Tu Fawning to our humble little shop. We also now have as well as the amazing new “Take Care, Take Care, Take Care” album from our old pals Explosions in the Sky as well as a new Paul Kalkbrenner T and one from Berlin’s coolest young label,Souterrain Transmissions. Go get ‘em!!

Frocksteady is starting off 2011 with a bunch of cool, hand printed gig posters by Pavement, Animal Collective, Royal Bangs, Calexico, Menomena, as well as the Jesus Lizard and the Butthole Surfers (hand signed by the band!). Supplies of these soon-to-be-classics are limited so get ‘em while they last! Check out the “cool STUFF“-section for even more….err…cool STUFF!

Your Frocksteady-Crew

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Frock Steady, the retail arm of Bingo Merch!

After several years of providing merchandise for bands travelling the highways and byways of Europe, we’re finally branching out in to the fine world of e-commerce. Now you get the same fine goods normally only available at gigs here in one shop and as we’re centrally located in beautiful downtown Kreuzberg, Berlin, our European customers can count on fast delivery and very fair shipping prices!

Take your time to browse via artist, garment type, color, or shirt manufacturer, and take a gander at all the fine music we have to offer on CD or LP. Digital downloads will be offered in the near future.

We’ll be adding new goods all the time so check back frequently to see what’s new. Also, check the blog periodically for news regarding the artists we work with, tour dates, etc.

Happy shopping!

The Frock Steady Crew

Yep, that’s right folks. This is soon going to be our STAFF TIP archive.