Margot Weidemann

Cherry Cigarette is curated by PLANETS, a vertically integrated music company built to give independent artists major-label-grade tools and strategy. The playlist lives in the shadowed end of alt-pop, dream pop, and literary indie — reverb-soaked guitars, lyrics that read like poetry, vocals sitting close to the mic. Music with atmosphere and something to say. I’m a recording artist and songwriter with a classical performance degree and sync placements across national and global campaigns, and PLANETS runs a catalog arm alongside artist development. So submissions get listened to with a working ear for arrangement, production choices, and the writing underneath. Drawn to tracks that build a world: shoegaze textures, cinematic arrangements, spoken word, songs that feel like part of a larger body of work. Independent and unsigned artists are the core of what gets added here. Every submission gets a real listen. If a track isn’t right, that’s usually a question of the playlist’s shape