The Dead Betties


The Dead Betties is an American, Brooklyn, New York-based rock band composed of lead singer–bassist Joshua Ackley, drummer Derek Pippin, and guitarist Eric Shepherd. With albums on Warner Music, Chainsaw Records, Cordless,,, and video rotation on MTV and VH1, the band is best known for their intense songwriting, melodic impact and explosive performances. Through appearances at CBGB, Cake Shop, Bowery Ballroom, North 6, Knitting Factory and headlining slots on nationwide and international tours and festivals between 2004 and 2008—Homo-a-Gogo, SXSW, CMJ, and NXNE —The Dead Betties reached a broader audience.
In 2014, while the band was putting the finishing touches on its forthcoming covers album, lead single "The Way We Live Now" received 5 out of 5 stars from About Punk's Ryan Cooper. "The Way We Live Now" shares its name with the Susan Sontag short story and is an ode to civil rights pioneers from the 1980s. "The Way We Live Now" also received praise from The Deli, while the video for "Lucky" was written up in Huffington Post and the video for "Angel" was premiered by Huffington Post and shared by Out Magazine.
In 2020, Brooklyn Vegan reported that The Dead Betties would be releasing a compilation album, "Killer Hits No Filler". The album was released on October 16, 2020. Following "Killer Hits No Filler", the band returned to the studio to work on a project that has never been released. In September 2024, Rolling Stone premiered the band's new single, "Impossible Future", and announced that the band had finished a new album, "Impossible Future", set to be released by Rotten Princess records on October 18, 2024. The video for the second single, "Blood " was premiered by on October 1, 2024. Following "Impossible Future", the band released three standalone singles in the first half of 2025;,, and .
On October 10, 2025, The Dead Betties announced the upcoming release of a new EP "", and premiered a video of the lead single, "" in Punknews.org. November 2025 saw the second single, "What's A Good Victim Supposed to Say?", released with accompanying interviews in and . On November 19, the title track "Whitey" was released as the third single, followed by a video premiere in .

Recordings

Sleeper
  • Relic
  • The Dead Betties
  • Summer of '93
  • Nightmare Sequence
  • "Destination I Do" / "Malls of the Midwest"
  • F U A, You're In The Army Now
  • This is My Brain on Drugs
  • Covers
  • Killer Hits No Filler
  • Sweetheart
  • Impossible Future
  • Evolution Blues
  • Coffins
  • Hot Body Contest
  • ''Whitey''