Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

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

woah, I didn't even realize until just now.

Arto Lindsay and David Lindley.

arto lindsay and lindsay lohan

zu/zs

deer(hoof/hunter)

David Lynch and whoever that other Lynch chick not a director is. Ok, I guess I can actually distinguish between them. It's just whenever I see the other Lynch the first image that pops up in my mind is David and then .00052 seconds later I realize it's a reference to the other.

Paul Young (Sad Café and Mike + The Mechanics) and Paul Young ("Wherever I Lay My Hat", "Come Back And Stay" and so on) tend to be mixed up a lot for obvious reasons. The latter was even mourned in various places when they former died.

Also tend to mix up Anthrax and Megadeth, probably for partly the same reasons why some have Built To Spill and Guided By Voices mixed up.

Vandenberg / Vanderhoof

Pete Yorn / David Yow

embarrassed myself the other week by mixing up Guy with Joe

tender trap/tiger trap/temper trap

Not similar names but: The National, Deerhunter and Menomena are basically all jumbled up in the same drawer in my brain.

Not like I mix'em up, but I still like this track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW1Frr4OcRc

:)

Deerhoof and Deerhunter mix me up the most. I even went to see a show that Deerhunter headlined and I still don't really remember who they are.

sun city girls/vivian girls/dum dum girls

when I was a kid I thought Tone Loc was a member of Tony! Toni! Tone! and was crushed when I found out I was wrong

Fantomas / Grupo Fantasma

sun city girls/vivian girls/dum dum girls

― gman59, Monday, 7 February 2011 23:28 (2 days ago) Bookmark

maybe you wanna add spice girls to that?

Unsane / Unrest

hate this ^:

there are multiple artists with this name:
1. An American indie rock band
2. A German heavy metal band
3. An American grindcore band
4. An American hardcore band
5. A Bulgarian crust band

Sun Araw / Sun Airway

Dirty Blondes / Dirty Beaches / Beach House

Nikka Costa and Nina Sky for some reason.

Baths/Braids

The Strokes / my bowel movements

I continue to confuse Rocket from the Crypt and Rocket from the Tombs.

I think I may occasionally get the 2 names confused when saying them, wrong last word coming out> but I certainly know which is which,
One of my fav tshirts is the red The Day The Earth Met The
or rather two of my, since I got sent a free tshirt when Jim Jones being ill delayed an order from the Ubu boutique.

Got several tracks from the lp on my walkman too.
Not heard much RFTCrypt.

Paul Young (Sad Café and Mike + The Mechanics) and Paul Young ("Wherever I Lay My Hat", "Come Back And Stay" and so on)

Those two and also John Paul Young ("Love Is In The Air")

Modest Mouse/Danger Mouse

Velvet Crush/Velvet Revolver (but never Velvet Underground)

The Hives, The Bees, The Bird and the Bee

Every band with the word "deer" in it's name.

'cept Deerhoof. I like Deerhoof.

Spiderbait/Nunbait/Christbait

Powederfinger/Powdermonkeys