Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

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cee lo and cedric the entertainer

flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 02:28 (eleven years ago)

chris whitley / keith whitley

harmonia / harmonium

incidentally I like all four of these artists

Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 02:37 (eleven years ago)

Swervedriver / Skrewdriver

lil urbane (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 22:09 (eleven years ago)

I've my entire life thought Mick Turner and Mick Harvey were the same Australian musician and had the pleasure of being availed of this misconception in front of one of them (Harvey)

got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Saturday, 14 March 2015 05:00 (eleven years ago)

Never occurred to me that Swervedriver / Slowdive could cause some confusion until the person who wrote up the former's show for the Mpls paper referenced "Slowdrive."

geoffreyess, Saturday, 14 March 2015 16:03 (eleven years ago)

two weeks pass...

Romare / Fort Romeau

lil urbane (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 16:44 (eleven years ago)

I've my entire life thought Mick Turner and Mick Harvey were the same Australian musician and had the pleasure of being availed of this misconception in front of one of them (Harvey)

ouch :/

lil urbane (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 16:44 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

Wild Beasts
Wild Cub
Wild Nothing

MarkoP, Friday, 24 April 2015 23:46 (eleven years ago)

Deerhunter
Deerhoof

Black Dice
Black Keys

mintap, Saturday, 25 April 2015 03:28 (eleven years ago)

Erroll Garner and Mal Waldron, for some reason. They're both pianists/composers, but their names aren't similar, apart from r's and l's. I even listened to one of them today, as part of an Eric Dolphy box, and I can't remember which one.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 25 April 2015 03:31 (eleven years ago)

Black Dice
Black Keys

This one confused me for quite a while. I couldn't reckon how the noisy and alienating band I once heard in person had managed to become so beloved and commercially successful

Josefa, Saturday, 25 April 2015 03:46 (eleven years ago)

That is exactly what happened to me. I saw Black Dice live and a little while later saw them being celebrated. I never gave Black Keys a proper listen thinking they were the noisy alienating band I saw.

mintap, Saturday, 25 April 2015 05:09 (eleven years ago)

Crystal Castles
Crystal Antlers
The Antlers

alpine static, Saturday, 25 April 2015 05:10 (eleven years ago)

Inquisition
Tribulation

alpine static, Saturday, 25 April 2015 05:10 (eleven years ago)

Bruce Springsteen
Buffalo Springfield

Poliopolice, Saturday, 25 April 2015 13:31 (eleven years ago)

The Gaslight Anthem
The Gaslamp Killer

(just had to check to make sure I hadn't written a mix of each one's name)

moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Sunday, 3 May 2015 16:07 (eleven years ago)

The wideboys
The wiseguys

the finest of display names? o rly (wins), Sunday, 3 May 2015 19:29 (eleven years ago)

Eddie Cantor
Eddie Fisher

Thank You For Talking Machine, Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2015 19:49 (eleven years ago)

the brian jonestown massacre
the jon spencer blues explosion

flappy bird, Sunday, 3 May 2015 19:50 (eleven years ago)

Ceremony
Coliseum
Converge (to a lesser extent)

alpine static, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:12 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

Faust and Feist

Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Monday, 31 August 2015 17:58 (ten years ago)

I remember someone confusing Isla StClair and Eyeless in Gaza once.

Mark G, Monday, 31 August 2015 18:37 (ten years ago)

Dead Weather
Deafheaven

how's life, Monday, 31 August 2015 18:38 (ten years ago)

As a kid I thought U2 was an abbreviation of 2 Unlimited, and they were the same band

(I've since sent an apology letter to 2 Unlimited)

flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:08 (ten years ago)

Not all that similar I guess but I used to always mix up Dirty Projectors/New Pornographers (both dirty and film related?)

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:12 (ten years ago)

four months pass...

Silverchair/Chairlift

moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 22:00 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

Gary Burton / Burton Greene

Wimmels, Monday, 7 March 2016 05:02 (ten years ago)

slint and sloan

diana krallice (rushomancy), Monday, 7 March 2016 11:47 (ten years ago)

Momus/Matmos

― mottdeterre, Tuesday, October 13, 2009 4:18 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Michaelangelo Matos / Matmos

Mark G, Monday, 7 March 2016 13:36 (ten years ago)

Wild Beasts/Wild Nothing
Wild Beasts/West Coast

(not West Coast/Wild Nothing tho)

moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Monday, 7 March 2016 13:38 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

White Fence / White Denim
(probably mentioned upthread)

Wimmels, Friday, 8 April 2016 14:33 (ten years ago)

Vic Mensa / Vince Staples

MarkoP, Friday, 8 April 2016 17:47 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

Cass McCombs and Connan Mockasin

MarkoP, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 17:58 (ten years ago)

Cass McCombs and Gaz Coombs

Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 22:41 (ten years ago)

six months pass...

Peaches Geldof was *not* the musician Peaches? Well, that explains that.

sbahnhof, Sunday, 11 December 2016 09:40 (nine years ago)

Besnard Lakes : Barenaked Ladies

Srsly how do you name your band "besnard lakes" unless you live under a rock

calstars, Sunday, 11 December 2016 20:07 (nine years ago)

one month passes...

emptyset / emptiness

Dinsdale, Monday, 23 January 2017 18:11 (nine years ago)

cLOUDDEAD/Cloud Nothings

Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Monday, 23 January 2017 20:53 (nine years ago)

eleven months pass...

It just hit me that I'd been mistaking Japanese Breakfast for Half Japanese all this time.

Dinsdale, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:16 (eight years ago)

Superchunk / Supertramp

American Football / Modern Baseball

flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 21:26 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

Rush / DJ Rush / Dasha Rush / Jana Rush / Dana Ruh

ed.b, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 15:24 (six years ago)

Don't forget Ed Rush

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 16:36 (six years ago)

McCarthy / mclusky

Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 18:35 (six years ago)

Mac Miller/Mac DeMarco

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 19:00 (six years ago)

vini reilly / vic chesnutt

thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 19:31 (six years ago)

two weeks pass...

Bill Evans and Gil Evans are both great, but it took me forever to work out which was which.

enochroot, Friday, 2 August 2019 13:16 (six years ago)

Alva Noto / Aldo Nova

henry s, Friday, 2 August 2019 15:43 (six years ago)

I kept getting Dua Lipa and Rita Ora absolutely mixed up for a while.

60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Friday, 2 August 2019 15:52 (six years ago)

Nick Nicely / Nick Garrie

frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:00 (six years ago)

Rita Ora / Rita Indiana

change display name (Jordan), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:27 (six years ago)


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