Step-Panther drop film clip for "It Came From The Heart", and team up with Bearhug for joint album launches tour!

Storming Sydney trio Step-Panther are proud to unveil the film clip for "It Came From The Heart", off their recently-released and highly-acclaimed sophomore album "Strange But Nice".
The blood-splattered adventure sees the band ignore every warning from every horror movie, ever ... and venture alone into a creepy old house in the dead of night, only to get their comeuppance from a particularly beastly bird.
The clip has just premiered via Impose (USA) and FasterLouder (Australia) and was directed by Wollongong team Matt Loft & Dave Fox, who've also helmed outings for Shining Bird and Mother & Son.
Frontman Steve Bourke says "We shot it in an abandoned house on a cliff in Austinmer. It was legitimately spooky and there was weird shit everywhere. It felt like something bad happened there".

In addition, Step-Panther are super-stoked to announce an East Coast run of very special shows to launch "Strange But Nice". Teaming up with fellow Sydney shredders Bearhug who've also just released their own sensational new album "So Gone", the "New Arrivals" Co-Headline Tour will take in stops in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Wollongong in late November and early December.
The two bands had been long-time mutual admirers and had been trying to tour together for years - finally with both their albums released on the same day last month, the stars seemed too aligned to ignore it any more. Dates and ticketing details below.

Step-Panther's "Strange But Nice" was produced by Tom Iansek from Big Scary, and recorded at his own Mixed Business studios in Melbourne. It was spearheaded by the galloping "Nowhere", which FasterLouder frothed was "slacker-pop at its finest - invoking the looseness of The Feelies and an endearingly shaky vocal - before it lays on the fuzz". Upon the album's release, Rolling Stone enthused it "does a fine job of continuing the glassy-eyed lineage of fretboard freak-out hall-of-famers like Pavement, Superchunk and Dinosaur Jr". Both "User Friendly" and "It Came From The Heart" have been recent fixtures on triple j and public radio alike.

Bearhug's "So Gone" was produced by Owen Penglis from Straight Arrows, and recorded at his own Goliath Professional Studios in Sydney. Blistering lead-off cut "Borderlines" premiered on Who The Hell who said "(it's) all feedback and screaming guitar solo, underpinned by the drummer's motorik tick and plenty of fuzz box". Of the full-lengther, The Brag gushed "(it's) a record filled with Sonic Youth meets Superchunk gems, all covered in a shoegaze glaze. It's a great guitar album, made in an era when they're few and far between". The second single "Catacombs" premiered on Sydney's FBi radio.

Pack your earplugs! Step-Panther and Bearhug are roaring into a town near you real soon.