The Dead Betties Debut "Whitey" Video w/ New Noise | EP out this Friday

The Dead Betties  New Noise Magazine Debuts “Whitey” Single + Video Whitey EP out this Friday, Nov. 21 via Rotten Princess Records Whitey EP pre-order link “If Sonic Youth started a poppy hardcore band in 1989.”  – Kathleen Hanna, on Whitey EP “formed in 2000 and have persisted against bigotry from all angles, whether fighting through  neo-Nazis barring their entry into venues or in their private lives.” – Rolling Stone “a gem in its own right” – OUT Singles: “What's A Good Victim Supposed To Say?” “Whitey” “Whatever, Anyway” Photo credit: Jonathon Marin NYC’s queercore legends the Dead Betties have spent two and a half decades as ferocious trailblazing politically-charged punks, channelling the righteous fury that anyone with a pulse and a conscience has felt in the last decade and alchemizing it into their most immediate and passionate music to date. Their message is more powerful than ever with the brand new Whitey EP due out this Friday, November 21 via Rotten Princess Records.  Featuring lead singer/bassist Joshua Ackley, guitarist Eric Shepherd, and drummer Derek Pippin, Whitey is the latest chapter in the Dead Betties’ constantly forward-thinking career. The EP title track “Whitey” takes aim at the hollowness of whiteness as a cultural invention. With a tense, slow-burn build, it wrestles with conformity, capitalism, and the emptiness of subscribing to a system built on silence and disconnection. This song doesn’t attack individuals; it dissects the structure itself—how it numbs, isolates, and conditions people to be grateful for their own alienation. It’s the band at their most conceptually ambitious, peeling back layers of societal myth to reveal the void underneath. Watch / Share: “Whitey” Video Ackley and the Dead Betties put even more of themselves into Whitey than ever before, self-producing the EP to give it their own personal stamp. “We're ready to keep doing what we set out to do when we all moved to New York at 19 and we set out to push angry queer music into the public domain,” Ackley says while talking about what this EP represents. “I'm really proud of what we've managed to pull off in our career—and now we're sitting back and looking at what's happening in the world and realizing that, not only is it really time for us to do what we set out to do, but it's our responsibility, because we're the adults now. It's on us as a society to do better and actually put out the art that we want to hear, instead of sitting back and complaining about not hearing it.”  With Whitey, the Dead Betties continue to shape the world they want to see and cement their legacy as queer rock vanguards, with results that are deeply felt and unforgettable. Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music