Pigeons & Planes Has a Website Again

Pigeons & Planes has lived through so many different eras.

At the beginning, we were a team of anonymous writers from around the world who published 20 blog posts daily and communicated strictly through email. During another period, we were producing a YouTube video every single day, but we got tired of covering the news so we tried to get artists to do comedy skits instead. The ideas for those were pretty weird, and only a few artists actually participated. Shout out Jessie Reyez and Migos. One year, we were convinced that the next big thing was a Pigeons & Planes subreddit. Turns out if you don’t have highly dedicated moderators on a subreddit, it gets pretty bad pretty fast. That was very short-lived. Another year, we made a zine called No Ceilings Vol. 1. We never even talked about making Vol. 2. Maybe one day.

There were so many other side quests and awkward phases, and we moved on from most of them for good reasons, sometimes simply because we wanted to try something new. I think that’s one of the reasons Pigeons & Planes has lasted this long, for over 15 years now. We started as a pretty basic music blog, but we were always trying to figure out what we could do next. We always wanted to evolve, expand, etc.

Even just in the last few years, we’ve stretched the idea of P&P more than we ever thought we could, from discovering new music to helping create it. We’re making compilation albums now, throwing concerts and release parties, and looking into the possibility of organizing artist retreats in secluded recording studios around the world. If you have any leads on that or want to sponsor this idea, please let us know ASAP.

Loading Text...

In 2019, we made the tough decision to shutter the Pigeons & Planes website. It was the wrong decision.

Outside of music discovery, the one consistent element of Pigeons & Planes since the beginning has been writing. Sometimes that came in the form of a three-thousand-word profile about a new artist, sometimes it was a blurb for a list of our favorite new albums, and sometimes it was just a few paragraphs in an Instagram caption. For over a decade, most of that writing lived on pigeonsandplanes.com. By 2019, everything was moving to social media, and we didn’t have the resources to go all-in with daily social content while still commissioning, editing, and publishing stories regularly. We continued to share occasional stories on Complex, but we made the tough decision to shutter the Pigeons & Planes website.

It was the wrong decision.

We have missed working with writers who care enough about a topic to write thousands of words on it. We’ve missed spending weeks debating a list, then hitting publish on it and knowing that the next few days would be spent arguing with people who think we got it wrong. We’ve missed having hours-long conversations with artists and wading through transcriptions, realizing that we’ve got an amazing story that hasn’t been told yet. We’ve missed having a home base.

In the few years that we’ve been without a website, a lot has changed. The way people consume content has shifted dramatically, and as much as we complain about shrinking attention spans, rage bait, and 15-second reaction videos spammed on fake fan accounts, it’s not all bad. It’s an exciting time for independent creators building their own platforms, for disruptive content that traditional media outlets could never replicate, and for the evolution of music discovery in ways we could have never imagined 10 years ago.

Loading Text...

Pigeons & Planes website in 2008

Pigeons & Planes website in 2009

Pigeons & Planes website in 2014

Pigeons & Planes website in 2016

Pigeons & Planes website in 2017

Pigeons & Planes website in 2018

Loading Gallery...

Thank you to everyone who has stuck with us through the many eras of Pigeons & Planes, and thank you to those of you who just started following. We can’t wait to get back to the work that meant so much to us for so many years.

All that said, we’re not sure what a music website’s role is in 2026 and beyond, but we feel like it’s a necessary piece for Pigeons & Planes to be the brand we want it to be. We’ve always aimed to be a platform where artists could dig deep and tell their stories, where writers could share opinions and start important conversations, where fans could get the context needed to form real, lasting connections with music and a better understanding of the artists they love. A lot of that has been replaced by the immediate payoff of social media dopamine hits but after a while, it doesn’t hit the same.

So, we’re bringing back the website.

To start, we’ll be publishing features on a weekly basis and we’ll figure the rest out as we go. We’ll continue to be active on our social media accounts, make videos, throw concerts, experiment with new mediums, and embark on the occasional random side mission. But we’ve got a home base again, and we’ll keep you updated on it all at pigeonsandplanes.com

Thank you to everyone who has stuck with us through the many eras of Pigeons & Planes, and thank you to those of you who just started following two years ago and had no idea that this brand was anything more than an Instagram account. We can’t wait to get back to the work that meant so much to us for so many years. We can’t wait to get back to the thing that shaped P&P in the first place.

Loading Text...

Pigeons & Planes