Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

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

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

Alva Noto / Aldo Nova

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

Nick Nicely / Nick Garrie

Rita Ora / Rita Indiana

Steve Moore (of Zombi) / Steve Moore (of Earth, Sunn O>>> etc)

Charly Bliss / Charly Black

I sometimes think of Rita Lee from Os Mutantes when I see Rita Ora's name

The corniest songs of 1999 poll was won by LFO, who I always thought were a British bleep techno band from the 90's, so I'm thinking how corny could that song be, really?
I only just now learned that there are actually two LFO's, and one of them is an american boy band.

ONUKA / ODESZA.

Bob Lefsetz has seen the future of music and it’s a Ukrainian EDM act? Oh, wait...

(posted this on the general thread, but it belongs here)

Sun Ra / Pharoah Sanders

Norma Winstone / Norma Waterson

Randys Crawford and Newman, in the past, although I've got a pretty good handle on them now.

See also Steely Dan / Steeleye Span.

Antonio Carlos Jobim / Joao Gilberto / Gilberto Gil

Bennie Maupin / Bernie Taupin

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Hubert Laws and Herbie Mann. I should probably know better.

I'm always confusing Bob Weir with Bob Welch.

Mary J Blige
Billie Ray Martin

Faust and Feist

Easy: one is 'fist', the other is 'fat'.