Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

Acid King and Acid Witch

so much so that Acid Witch was announced at Hell in the Harbor festival, and I'd been spending time with Acid KING'S new album and old albums over the last few months only to realize TODAY it's ACID WITCH, NOT KING

these arms are snakes
this bike is a pipe bomb

Weezer, Wheatus and Ween. Ridiculous, I know.

Totally get Weezer and Ween, since I've never listened to either and they're both alt rock from the 90s.

I have just realized that Eddie Chacon is not Eddie Marcon

Pitchfork's 2023 album list has both Yeule and Yaeji in the top 15
Even google's auto-correct gets those two mixed up.

Khanate
Krallice

Do you think this young band chose the name as a tribute? Or are they unaware (or just don’t care) about the precedent?:

https://teenjesusandthejeanteasers.bandcamp.com/album/i-love-you

that seems like sufficiently obvious obnoxiousness that it could be discovered without awareness of precedent.

Hannah Peel
Hannah Wants
Hannah Diamond

Vanishing Twin
Twin Shadow
Vatican Shadow
probably about 5 others I never realize are different artists when I see them mentioned somewhere

Well I just learned those are different things too

Hannah Georgas (musician)
Hannah Giorgis (writer for the Atlantic)

I don't get them mixed up I just have to run a mental subroutine to verify which Hannah I'm reading about

Alida Valli
Ida Galli

^ those are actresses bc I forgot which thread this was

I mixed up Mother Mother and Moor Mother the other day

People are really bad at coming up with band names aren't they

I'm sure I've mentioned this before but for years I sorta ignored - very foolishly and to my detriment, it turns out - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, because I was confusing them with emo band Sleeptime Trio (who were pretty good as I recall, just not really my thing these days)

I realised today that, even though I should know better because they're all very much in my wheelhouse and they're all actually pretty different and based in different countries, I often conflate:

Sho Madjozi
Toya Delazy
Tkay Mdaiza

Two credits I see on lots of records:

B.J. Cole
B.J. Nelson

Self Defense Family
Fat White Family

any band that has 2 Vs standing in for a W/any other band that has (ditto)

ozark mountain daredevils
hoodoo rhythm devils
amazing rhythm aces

youth brigade
youth brigade
wasted youth
wasted youth

ozark mountain daredevils
hoodoo rhythm devils
amazing rhythm aces
atlanta rhythm section

When Olivia Rodrigo started to get popular my mind kept reading it as Elaine Radigue. So I would glance at article headlines about Olivia Rodrigo’s new album and thought that people were super excited about a new Elaine Radigue reissue.

Or Pauline Oliveros.

Lady Gaga and Diamanda Galas

Icehouse
Icicle Works

David Sanborn
David Sancious

The Head and the Heart
the bird and the bee

The Chameleons (UK), led by Mark Burgess
The Charlatans (UK), led by Tim Burgess

Vaughan Oliver
Vaughn Oliver

April March
An April March

Coil
Recoil

Narada Michael Walden
Wadada Leo Smith

Kaytranada
Kaatayra

Marshall Crenshaw
Marshall Jefferson

Lil Keen
Lil Ked

Lil Reek
Lil Sheik

Record producers, both affiliated with Roxy Music:

John Porter
John Punter