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[ROCK] Having won a contest to be the first unsigned band to grace the cover of Rolling Stone in 2011, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan’s Sheepdogs enjoyed a profile boost that surely had a huge impact on their career. But the truth is that they’d eventually have penetrated mass consciousness anyway, given their signature mix of sweet harmonies and bluesy, riff-laden southern boogie—a classic rock fan’s wet dream. After an album for Atlantic in 2012, Future Nostalgia came out on Warner Music Canada last year in partnership with the indie imprint Dine Alone. The album, which brings the Sheepdogs to Town Ballroom on Saturday, October 22, is an epic, 18-track stunner of superbly executed rock and roll. Perhaps the most refreshing thing about the Sheepdogs is that they’re not trying to reinvent the wheel, but rather, just to roll with the one that already exists. Nashville’s Blank Range will open with a set of melodic garage rockers.