Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

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

Dengue Dengue Dengue
Dengue Fever

Win Butler / Will Butler
Liam Gallagher / Noel Gallagher
Aaron Dessner / Bryce Dessner
Kim Deal / Kelly Deal (kidding though)

Javiera Mena and Juana Molina (but I'll correct that this week)

Belle & Sebastian
Damon & Naomi

Skinny Puppy
Snarky Puppy

Aril Brikha
Amari Baraka

Only just realized the sunglasses at night guy wasn’t an 80s teen actor

Just put on some Bardo Pond expecting to hear The Bevis Frond

Lol!

Just realised I've been getting the names Ashley Beedle and Jeremy Healy mixed up for years

Also

KOKOKO!
Kokoroko

Wilton Felder
Victor Feldman