Musicians Wearing Shirts from Bands That Sound Nothing Like Them

I still think the article is actually lovingly praising Rush but either I'm way off or everyone else is misunderstanding it, based on social media.

I don't think a Rush hater would reel off their proggiest deep cuts like that.

Hannah is punk now! ☠️ pic.twitter.com/I4nUdajchD

— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) March 29, 2019

Pimp C (RIP) of UGK wearing a Nirvana "Sliver/Dive" shirt in the "Use Me Up" video (1992):

https://i.imgur.com/H9JqbKE.jpg

I can’t find it right now, but there’s a recent-ish selfie of David Sylvian sporting a black Boris (the Japanese noisegaze band) T-shirt.

https://www.tinymixtapes.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/Article_Width/1707/sufjan-stevens-announces-new-icarrie-lowelli-live-album.jpg

Sufjan Stevens wearing a Sannhet t-shirt.

Joe McPhee, about 3 hours ago...

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/479VGdkEOOU/hqdefault.jpg

Shout out to the guitarist in Westkust who wears Death in June or Non t-shirts. https://www.last.fm/music/Westkust/+images/84a7ccfb9ed946df88711d61115e783a

When fashion dictates . . .

lotta pics not showing up but i feel like that idiot Ryan ADams must have been the king of this?

Well excuse me if I, wear another band's shirt tonite....

https://i.imgur.com/37E2T1Q.png

Chuck Mosley of Faith No More

Joe McPhee does kinda sound like AC/DC sometimes

the rest of them look like adorable babies (in the care of an extremely irresponsible adult)

maybe in the care of an RA who is three years older than the rest of them

https://i.imgur.com/6zIj41R.jpg

HAGAR: "There's only one way to RULE!"

Shout out to the guitarist in Westkust who wears Death in June or Non t-shirts. https://www.last.fm/music/Westkust/+images/84a7ccfb9ed946df88711d61115e783a

― Treblekicker, Thursday, May 9, 2019 3:48 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

you could maybe rationalize DiJ not being a huge red flag but paired with fucking Non, man I dunno

/Shout out to the guitarist in Westkust who wears Death in June or Non t-shirts. https://www.last.fm/music/Westkust/+images/84a7ccfb9ed946df88711d61115e783a🕸

― Treblekicker, Thursday, May 9, 2019 3:48 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink/

you could maybe rationalize DiJ not being a huge red flag but paired with fucking Non, man I dunno

DJ Tiësto:

https://6ad84eux9zs4.b-cdn.net/w_1280,h_720/s3-top-40/552fb538-1bc0-4cce-a6d3-daa497f7d67c.jpg

i dunno - anthemic, maximalist, relentless, slightly oppressive?

spotted this today: david van day wearing springsteen shirt.

https://img.discogs.com/-pZ4UCdQVh6hTc-xak_owE36CdQ=/fit-in/496x503/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1900281-1299117706.jpeg.jpg

I love that Demi Lovato was wearing a Voivod shirt!

http://www.wearethepit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/metalhead-demi-lovato-rocks-a-voivod-shirt-while-signing-copies-of-their-new-album-678x381.png

https://www.wearethepit.com/2022/07/metalhead-demi-lovato-rocks-a-voivod-shirt-while-signing-copies-of-their-new-album/

I’m trying to think of which of them I’d rather listen to

What's the appeal of a Voivod album signed by Demi Lovato?

https://frinkiac.com/img/S07E21/1091139.jpg

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/320054330_1315951829166464_6512379042352385144_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=Syxi9-D-Vv8AX9ZecVX&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AfC23BtJhrzdItEFzBaKGly6lbs78MHBsbvR2rYQcuMeZw&oe=639FC6A8

Paul Westerberg wearing a New Edition T-shirt.

Composer and Grammy-nominated songwriter and cellist Michael Peter Olsen.

http://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538bc35de4b0be593a36780f/2b130e4e-aa3b-4748-b3ef-38b486f0afbb/IMG_4188.jpg?format=2500w

Doesn't sound remotely like Darkthrone.

Whoa, Peter Cetera’s wearing a Bauhaus t-shirt in the video for “You’re The Inspiration” haha pic.twitter.com/gwdyXshHE2

— Bafflegabs! (@Bafflegabs) December 28, 2023

Glory of Love and Rockets

NYC singer songwriter Margaret Glaspy, in Meshuggah.

https://nippertown.com/zeblog/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190609-Margaret_Glaspy-4-2048x1638.jpg.webp

Chris Martin wears a Stones shirt in the video for Shiver. I'm sure it's easy to draw lines between periods of the Stones and Coldplay now but not on the latter's first single.

Here's Blondshell wearing a Neil Young & Crazy Horse shirt (there may be an affinity there, but I wouldn't have made the link). Killer performance, btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2vzTWY9m14

Hahaha re: Peter Cetera. I thought "surely that was Photoshopped?" but yeah, it's in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRfy1yorkec
And right at the beginning, someone (not in the band) is wearing a Public Image Ltd. shirt.
I had that same Bauhaus t-shirt, which I wore so much it was sheer, like in this Onion article: https://www.theonion.com/deterioration-of-bauhaus-t-shirt-symbolizes-end-of-era-1819565153

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardrobe_stylist

not at all the same thing but there's an episode of the vicar of dibley with a cameon from a crusty-like character wearing a cardiacs shirt

cameo

Lana Del Rey's guitarist Blake Stranathan

https://c7.alamy.com/comp/W21RHB/lana-del-rey-performs-on-the-pyramid-stage-with-guitarist-blake-stranathan-blake-lee-on-the-saturday-of-glastonbury-festival-in-pilton-somerset-28-june-2014-W21RHB.jpg

Darius Rucker is wearing a Metallica T-shirt while playing a countryfied version of “Hold My Hand” on #CNNNYE

this isn't the most noteworthy example, but Lynn Canfield (frontwoman of the dreampop group The Moon Seven Times) wore a Third Stone t-shirt at a reunion show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXqcar7lON0

Third Stone being a long dead Alice in Chains knockoff band from Illinois. there's an awkward moment at the 4:00 mark where Lynn namechecks the band and a heckler calls out, "are you sleeping with somebody in that band?" (Lynn: "nope...are you?")