Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

Rodney Jerkins/Rodney Jenkees

Jex Thoth / James Toth (Wooden Wand)

Guster and Gomez

Jex Thoth / James Toth (Wooden Wand)

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were married; she kept the name

Billy Strayhorn / Billy Eckstine occasionally

cee lo and cedric the entertainer

chris whitley / keith whitley

harmonia / harmonium

incidentally I like all four of these artists

Swervedriver / Skrewdriver

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)

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."

Romare / Fort Romeau

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 :/

Wild Beasts
Wild Cub
Wild Nothing

Deerhunter
Deerhoof

Black Dice
Black Keys

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.

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

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.

Crystal Castles
Crystal Antlers
The Antlers

Inquisition
Tribulation

Bruce Springsteen
Buffalo Springfield

The Gaslight Anthem
The Gaslamp Killer

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

The wideboys
The wiseguys

Eddie Cantor
Eddie Fisher

the brian jonestown massacre
the jon spencer blues explosion

Ceremony
Coliseum
Converge (to a lesser extent)

Faust and Feist

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

Dead Weather
Deafheaven

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)

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

Silverchair/Chairlift

Gary Burton / Burton Greene

slint and sloan

Momus/Matmos

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Michaelangelo Matos / Matmos

Wild Beasts/Wild Nothing
Wild Beasts/West Coast

(not West Coast/Wild Nothing tho)

White Fence / White Denim
(probably mentioned upthread)

Vic Mensa / Vince Staples

Cass McCombs and Connan Mockasin

Cass McCombs and Gaz Coombs

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

Besnard Lakes : Barenaked Ladies

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

emptyset / emptiness

cLOUDDEAD/Cloud Nothings

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

Superchunk / Supertramp

American Football / Modern Baseball

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

Don't forget Ed Rush

McCarthy / mclusky

Mac Miller/Mac DeMarco

vini reilly / vic chesnutt