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.
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 (Olympia, Washington), SXSW (Austin, Texas), CMJ (New York City), and NXNE (Toronto, Canada)—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.
[3] "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.
[7] In 2020, Brooklyn Vegan[8] reported that The Dead Betties would be releasing a compilation album, "Killer Hits No Filler[9]".