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DIRT IN YOUR LUNGS

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Tour Dates

Apr 12, 2025
Coachella Music and Arts Festival
Indio, CA
Apr 17, 2025
El Rey Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
With support from The Army, The Navy
Apr 19, 2025
Coachella Music and Arts Festival
Indio, CA
Apr 26, 2025
High Water Festival
North Charleston, SC
Apr 28, 2025
Richmond Music Hall
Richmond, VA
Medium Build x Petey USA
Apr 29, 2025
118 North
Wayne, PA
Medium Build x Petey USA
Apr 30, 2025
Fête Lounge
Providence, RI
Medium Build x Petey USA
May 2, 2025
Iron Horse Music Hall
Northampton, MA
Medium Build x Petey USA
May 3, 2025
The Stone Church
Brattleboro, VT
Medium Build x Petey USA
May 4, 2025
One Longfellow Square
Portland, ME
Medium Build x Petey USA
May 6, 2025
Higher Ground Showcase Lounge
South Burlington, VT
Medium Build x Petey USA
May 7, 2025
Billsville House Concerts
Manchester, VT
Medium Build x Petey USA
May 9, 2025
Levon Helm Studios
Woodstock, NY
Medium Build x Petey USA
May 10, 2025
West Art
Lancaster, PA
Medium Build x Petey USA
May 11, 2025
Mountain Stage - Culture Center Theater
Charleston, WV
Jul 24, 2025
CHI Health Center Omaha
Omaha, NE
Supporting Tyler Childers
Jul 26, 2025
Alpine Valley Music Theatre
East Troy, WI
supporting Tyler Childers
Jul 29, 2025
Artpark
Lewiston, NY
supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Jul 30, 2025
MegaCorp Pavilion
Newport, KY
supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Aug 1, 2025
Saint Louis Music Park
St. Louis, MO
supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Aug 2, 2025
Pinewood Bowl Theater
Lincoln, NE
supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Aug 3, 2025
The Ledge Amphitheater
Waite Park, MN
supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Aug 5, 2025
UP District Festival Field
Fargo, ND
supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Aug 10, 2025
Britt Festival Pavilion
Jacksonville, OR
supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Aug 11, 2025
Hayden Homes Amphitheater
Bend, OR
supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Aug 13, 2025
KettleHouse Amphitheater
Bonner, MT
supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Aug 14, 2025
Pavilion at Riverfront
Spokane, WA
supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Aug 15, 2025
Alaska State Fair
Palmer, AK
Sep 5, 2025
Dillon Amphitheater
Dillon, CO
supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Sep 6, 2025
Dillon Amphitheater
Dillon, CO
supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Sep 8, 2025
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Morrison, CO
supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Sep 20, 2025 - Sep 21, 2025
Iron Blossom
Richmond, VA
Sep 24, 2025
Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
Camden, NJ
supporting Tyler Childers
Sep 25, 2025
Xfinity Center
Mansfield, MA
supporting Tyler Childers
Sep 27, 2025
Jiffy Lube Live
Bristow, VA
supporting Tyler Childers
Sep 29, 2025
Forest Hills Stadium
Forest Hills, NY
supporting Tyler Childers
Sep 30, 2025
Forest Hills Stadium
Forest Hills, NY
supporting Tyler Childers
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About

MEDIUM BUILD

As a musician with a nomadic lifestyle, Nick Carpenter often enters spaces as a stranger and leaves with lifelong friends. The creator of Medium Build possesses a connective charisma that shows in his songs and performances—which can seem like equal parts concerts, testimony, and stand-up comedy. That gift and yearning for connection has been amplified during a transformative season for Nick. In 2023, Medium Build signed with slowplay / Island Records, toured with Lewis Capaldi, and reached the Billboard charts for the first time collaborating with X Ambassadors. Life was pulling Carpenter away from his home, dog, and sense of belonging in Anchorage to Nashville. Nick spent his drives looking, listening, and reflecting. This inner and outer journey led to Country, the thematic album draws from Carpenter’s roots as much as it considers his future—while exploring genre. His music is as vast and unique as his backstory, but “if you slow all of my songs down, they’re just three-cord bummer Country tunes,” he admits. Evident in the video single “Cutting Thru The Country,” this collection packs for a trip that explores wide open spaces, musical frontiers, and oneself.

Medium Build began as the name Nick Carpenter attached to four-track recordings a decade ago. The storyteller applied aspects of a middle-class church-going Georgia childhood and a Tennessee education to truths learned along the way—ultimately delivering the queer extrovert to find a community in Alaska. There is duality and dichotomy in Medium Build’s life and music—but it is drenched in authenticity. The music has endured, resonated, and connected with a growing base. “Now I’m realizing that my career can last longer than five seconds and I can kind of just breathe and show one thing at a time,” Nick shares. His dynamic catalog mirrors the people who have shown up in his corner: Elton John, Boygenius, John Mayer, and Noah Kahan, to name a few. 2019’s somber and synth-tinged “Be Your Boy” and 2022’s therapeutic “Never Learned To Dance” are fan favorites amid the kaleidoscope of sounds and moods. Country seems much more focused, even if birthed by uncertainty.

Now in his thirties, Nick says he only recently learned about his father’s poor rural South Carolina upbringing. As a result, Country music was something Nick’s dad covered up—along with the poverty and corresponding shame of his past. “I had no sense of identity as far as place,” the artist admits. Lately, the father and son began talking about the past and sharing Country tunes—exchanging culture and heritage. As an understanding of his DNA developed, perhaps the twang and American in Medium Build’s songs stood out. However, his Country is something unsurprisingly personal. “It feels self-soothing,” Nick says of the opener, “Beach Chair,” which is a love letter to self in a time of need. “Crying Over U” is deeply specific but conjures emotions in us all—when confronted by closure and what remains in the rearview.

Written on the road, Country was fittingly recorded on Nashville’s Music Row. Carpenter and creative partner Jake LiBassi, aka Laiko, embraced experimentation. “We made the album we wanted to make,” he says joyfully and confidently. “It’s so easy to get back in touch with yourself if you can throw off the heavy cloak of duty and just do something that feels good.” At a time when people take the same photo a dozen times in search of a curated aesthetic, Medium Build captures the snapshot. The lyrics and the spirit of Country embrace both wandering and wondering. “I want this to feel lived-in,” Nick says. “It’s sort of me finding a defined place.”

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