Premiere: TV Baby’s “Beware the Holy Whore”

A colorful, surrealist dance party set to synth-driven pop rock

As a nun dances across the rainbow-painted Salvation Mountain in TV Baby‘s brand new music video for their track “Beware The Holy Whore,” directed by Stephanie Cerini, the song provides a gyration-worthy soundtrack to the surrealist visuals. The NYC-based duo, comprised of former A.R.E. Weapons members Matt McAuley and Brian McPeck, refers to the track as a “late Velvet Underground guitar jam on a bed …

MNDR + Scissor Sisters: Swerlk

GLAAD, the Scissor Sisters and MNDR all joined forces for “Swerlk,” a playful dance track that pays homage to the queer community and culture. “Swerlk” is a portmanteau of twerk, twirl, werk, swirl and swerve. Further, all proceeds from the single benefit the Contigo Fund (founded in the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting), which works to advance Latinx and LGBTQ+ causes—especially those that overlap. …

Sanitation Worker Creates Public Library from Discarded Books

Bogota-based Jose Alberto Gutierrez has been collecting discarded books for two decades. Hi collection—which is upwards of 20,000—is made up mostly of books he picked up during his rounds as a sanitation worker. Taking up a few rooms in his family’s home, the books are lent out to the community in an effort to encourage a passion for reading in low-income families. “Although poverty meant …