Today, multi-platinum and four-time JUNO Award winning The Sheepdogs share Keep Out Of The Storm, available now via their newly minted label, Right On Records. The beloved Canadian rockers’ first LP since the departure of longtime drummer Sam Corbett, the record was produced by the band’s own Ewan Currie and recorded with longtime collaborator Thomas D’arcy, and features an all-star rotation of drummer friends including Trevor Falls, Adam Hindle (Dwayne Gretzky, Born Ruffians), Steve Kiely (Golden Feather), Jordan Murphy (Walrus, Adam Baldwin), and Dani Nash (July Talk).
“We are all trying to weather the storms in our lives,” Currie shares, speaking on the record. “Finding shelter, love, hope. We find all of those in rock and roll. Don’t let the title fool you, this record is full of light, love, guitars that rip, and sweet singing that moves you.”
Alongside the release comes a new video for “Bad for Your Health”, which slinks and snarls through a catalogue of 21st-century vices, digital addiction, media haze, hunched-over-phone living, filtering its warnings through swagger inherited from T. Rex, Thin Lizzy, and Queens of the Stone Age. It’s rock as critique, but also rock as catharsis, a reminder that even the muddiest cultural moment can be danced through if the riff is heavy enough.
Stream Keep Out Of The Storm HERE
Watch the video for “Bad for Your Health” HERE
After more than two decades together, The Sheepdogs sound newly energized on Keep Out Of The Storm, a record shaped by change but driven by instinct. Working between tour dates, the band leaned into a live-off-the-floor approach that captures them at their most immediate and unfiltered, jamming songs until they felt alive and committing them to tape in the moment. The result is a warm, guitar-forward collection that balances swaggering rock with flashes of glam, jam-band interplay, and an unmistakable sense of joy.
Thematically, the new album finds the band searching for light in uncertain times. While its songs touch on change, belonging, and the idea of home, the record radiates optimism, a reminder that loud guitars and shared moments can be their own kind of refuge.
It also marks the first full-length to fully showcase guitarist Ricky Paquette, whose tone and harmonies add fresh colour to the band’s evolving sound. Rather than reinventing themselves, The Sheepdogs sharpen what they do best here: bigger riffs, looser jams, and a renewed sense of momentum that captures a band still growing, still pushing forward, and still deeply in love with rock and roll.
Keep Out Of The Storm follows a tremendous year for the band. In 2025, The Sheepdogs completed a sold-out cross-Canada arena tour supporting Bryan Adams, released two successful companion EPs, Paradise Alone and Hell Together, and launched their own label, Right On Records. The band also appeared in Bryan Adams and Friends: A Great Big Holiday Jam, a one-hour holiday special featuring festive performances by Alessia Cara, Alan Doyle, Barenaked Ladies, Lights and more.
As the cherry on top, their single “Take Me For A Ride” was the #16 most played song in 2025 at Billboard Mainstream Rock, and the #18 most played song at Mediabase Active Rock. The album’s first single, “Nobody But You“, has jumped to #9 on Active Rock and hit #13 on Billboard Mainstream Rock.
Keep Out of the Storm doesn’t sound like reinvention, it sounds like affirmation. Though the album marks a period of transition, The Sheepdogs don’t abandon their roots, they sharpen them. The riffs are bigger, the jams looser, the vocals warmer, and the band’s sense of purpose clearer than ever. This is a working band’s record, made between tour dates, living in the small details, trusting the moment. A band in motion, weathering change, turning up loud, and finding light in the noise.
In support of the release, The Sheepdogs will kick off an extensive Canadian headline tour on March 13, 2026 then returning to Europe with their Out All Night Tour in November and December 2026.
A testament to their commitment to music lovers who’ve grown accustomed to traveling long distances to catch a live show, the tour also includes towns and places that rarely grace the tour schedules of renowned artists and reaffirms The Sheepdogs’ dedication to their fanbase, promising unforgettable nights of rock ‘n’ roll magic.
A special tour VIP package add-on is also available which includes a signed limited edition of the new record, plus an exclusive Live 10″. See the current full routing below. Tickets are available HERE.
Exclusive coloured vinyl, and CDs available at https://thesheepdogs.com/
