Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

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'.

Rick James / Rickie Lee Jones

Emma Ruth Rundle / Emma Jean Thackray

Jawbox/Jawbreaker

I saw one of these bands perform once. I *still* have no idea which one it was.

I distinctly remember struggling with the Go-Go's vs the Go-Betweens for a while as a child!

phil manzanera / ray manzarek

Dirty Projectors and New Pornographers, not remotely similar - I think it's something to do with a New Pornographers' album having a projector on the cover?

maybe your brain is inclined to link "dirty" with "porn"

A Dirty Pornographer might use a New Projector

I think I may at times have conflated Soul Coughing and Collapsed Lung. Amused at the logic there.

Diry Projectors / Fiery Furnaces / Magic Numbers - no idea what these are or what distinguishes them and herein revel in the ignorance. New Pornographers at least sound like they are multiple humans.

^Rolling Stones?

No, just sitting here thinking about more coffee.

It's not that I'm against non human things, just that I wouldn't confuse New Prnographers with the others, and also I happen to be more aware of what they do.

I gotcha - was just kidding around (I can see what you mean about the first two you named; I've never heard of Magic Numbers)

I was trying to think of the name of that highly influential African American civil rights proto-hip hop group and all I could come up with in my head was.... Lost Prophets :-( :-(

Ducks De Luxe
Bebop De Luxe

They spelt it Be-Bop Deluxe, though, if that helps.

Lonnie Smith
Lonnie Liston Smith

temper trap
tender trap
tiger trap