Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

edan / esham

Eddie Rabbit / Eddy Raven / Kenny Rankin / Trevor Rabin

for some reason.... Jobraith and Bohannon.....

laughing hands / flaming hands

Leigh Stephens / Leith Stevens

Five Blind Boys Of Alabama / Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi

Diamond Reo / Diamond Rio

AC Temple/AC Newman

John McLaughlin/Jon McLaughlin

Manitoba / Handsome Dick Manitoba, apparently.

I used to really mix up Marissa Nadler and Nina Nastasia... thought they were the same person!

Used to confuse Sensational Alex Harvey Band with Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel, who I also used to confuse with Cockney Rejects

Can't believe I'm first with this one:

School of Seven Bells
Voice of the Seven Woods/Thunders

+ Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?

As has become evident on another thread somewhere up in here, I get the Pink bands confused: Pink Reason, Pink Noise, Pink I-Think-There's-a-Couple-More...

The Big Pink
Pink Swords

Ariel Pink

Flux of Pink Indiebands

Loose Ends / Loose Joints

Steve Khan / Steve Kuhn

Deerhhof and Deerhoof

Wolf Eyes Black Eyes Black Dice Wolf Parade AIDS Wolf Black Lips

And now Wolf People ffs.

Loose Ends / Loose Joints

Loose Lips Sink Ships

John Cale
JJ Cale
John Cage

unfortunate show experience on the weekend.

a friend and I have a tiresome running joke [via Obvious jokes/puns that people always make as though they were the first persons to think of them] about a sitcom where those three musicians rent a house together

the JJ cage?

Sly Stone and Sly Fox. Especially their music.

Steve Khan / Steve Kuhn

not artists, but i constantly forget "dream pop" is different than "sunshine pop" and am disappointed by the lack of buoyant fifth dimension & turtles songs

This includes band names and album names:
Soft Machine, The Soft Boys, The Soft Bulletin, The Soft Parade, The Soft Pink Truth, The Big Pink, Music From the Big Pink

Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis

Deadly Snakes and Detroit Cobras

Friendly Fires and Fleet Foxes

Orb/Orbital/William Orbit

All the bands with 'bear' in the name - panda bear, seabear, grizzly bear etc

Mouse bands, too, while I'm here - modest mouse, mouse on mars etc

Modest Mussorgski on Mars

ooof now you're really confusing me, Mark

Mojave 3, Spacemen 3, Secret Chiefs 3

Don Williams and Don Gibson

Beach House and Best Coast

David Lasley / David Lindley

A lot of these seem to be instances where the spelling or names are similar.

Not me (of course), but many people think Robert Palmer and Robert Plant are the same guy.
It's easy to get Ryan Adams and Bryan Adams mixed up because of the similar spelling.

Amerie, Ciara, Cassie, Toya, Kandi, Lil' Mo and Nivea are interchangeable artists in the same genre.
Allure, Xscape, Brownstone, Total and SWV were all similar and interchangeable and easy to mix up as well.

Don Felder / Don Fagen

Fairport Convention/Fairground Attraction

Beach House, Beach Fossils

like neither.

Dwight Twilley
Mink DeVille

yeah, I know it don't make no sense

Atlanta Rhythm Section
Amazing Rhythm Aces

makes more sense

also:

Lobo
Poco

Beach House / Best Coast

embrace, idlewild, athlete, starsailor, travis, keane,

I just realized that I never listened to Hauschka before and it's all Devotchka's fault.

bardo pond / bevis frond