Danish recording duo The Asteroids Galaxy is best known for catchy single “Around the Bend,” which was featured last year in an iPod touch ad, but they have another killer trick up their sleeve: The impossibly high, tinny, baby-on-fire singing voice of their frontwoman Mette Lindberg. Even though they won’t be touring the US anytime this year, their debut album Fruit has finally been released and I figured that was as good a time as any to have her answer some of our questions about being straight.

Seminal (get it?) industrial group Revolting Cocks recently began an expansive world tour. Though the closest it gets to DC will be a Baltimore appearance on Oct. 18th, the bands members Josh Bradford and Sin Quirin were nice enough to answer some of our questions about being straight. You can check out the answers below while pondering who in your own past had the most revolting cock.

With the release of her new album “My Guilty Pleasure” last week, shy Swedish disco artist Sally Shapiro (actually the vocalist half of a production duo) confirms two facts. The good one is that her songs, shimmery, unabashedly exuberant swoons of love and loss, is pretty cool. The bad one is that she is way too shy to tour. Though a part of me might relish a Cat Power-style onstage breakdown (who wouldn’t) the overall sweetness of Shapiro’s sound does not jibe well with schaudenfraude. Oh well. Since she won’t soon be coming to a city near you, the best we can do for the time being is enjoy Shapiro’s answers to my questions about being straight.

Don’t get me wrong: I have been into The Pretenders for a long time. The ubiquity of singles like “Brass in Pocket” and “Middle of the Road” is due to their quality and catchy timelessness, no matter how many banks decide to bastardize the former in their commercials. All that said, I get the impression that their frontwoman Chrissie Hynde would bash my face in with a wrench if I so much as took a parking spot from her. Her take-no-shitness is evident in every line she sneers, which is why I have no objections to the below interview where she answers some of our questions about being straight. Normally I would wish that a subject gave slightly longer answers or felt like they had obligations to the gay community, but here I’ll just let it be. She’s Chrissie Hynde, she’s big on animal rights, and far be it for me to say she’s done anything wrong.

Brooklyn jazz/rock/Betty Boop-with-a-whiskey-bait fusion band The Fiery Furnaces are playing tonight at the Black Cat as one stop on a longer tour. Those baffled by the signature mix of rambling song structures, slightly anancrhonistic clothing styles and obtuse lyrics (basically, all the reasons people love them) might welcome a little peek into their sings Eleanor Friedberger’s head. Which I will provide you below as she so graciously answers some of our questions about being straight

Chicago-based quartet Mannequin Men have a sense of humor. Thats evident even in the title of their most recent album, Use Your Illusion Too, and in songs like “WTF LOL” that take the Strokes/Hives/Sweet paradigm that so many bands are using and acknowledging that they’re better when they don’t take themselves too seriously.

I really like this band. Check out who they would go gay for.

The first featured artist is Brooklyn trio Elizabeth and the Catapult, a gentle, jazzy trio anchored by their singer Elizabeth Ziman’s smoky, sly voice. Fans of Aimee Mann, Obi Best, or the universally calming combination of girls and pianos should check ‘em out tonight at The Red and The Black (for our DC residents) or on their many other tour stops.

Elizabeth herself was nice enough to answer our questions about being straight. You can check out her answers, and a video, below.

Are you amused by the word cunilingus? you’re going to love this interview.

When the voice of Luna marries the voice of Jem and the Holograms, beautiful straight music is made.