Paper reports that Afrika Bambaataa donated his vinyl to Cornell University Library's Hip Hop Collection.  "THis AlBUM," Funk Reaction by Lonnie Smith, bears a funky inscription on the cover art.  This is why vinyl is dead.

Steph found this music venue's marred marquee:

Tally Hall is my sister's and my favorite band, so you can imagine how surprised we were when we arrived at a venue and found that we would be seeing "TAIIY HAII" instead! Poor "FRANK BIACK" also lost his "L"; you can barely make out that the next band listed, "PUNCHLINE", were the lucky ones to receive the venue's apparently only upper-case "L".

Whoooooooo Are You? Who Who? Who Who? Lowercase L reader Gary C. found this rare The Who promo album from Japan, replete with spelling errors and letter case inconsistencies. Besides adding an extra D to Pete Townshend for TOWNSHEDND, we have not one, but two misused lowercase L's in ROGER DAlTREY and JOHN ENTWISTlE, making this rare album even more rare! Keith Moon, you may have died young, but you lucked out on this album cover, being the only member whose name was written correctly.

Ronnie P. found this album on Amazon, YOU'RE MY lOVER NOW by The Teeth, the second example of an album pressed, released, and distributed to the world, and outed here on lowercase L! This is a really supreme example, as the L is the only letter on the entire album cover that is lowercase, and it really makes me think iover.

Sent in by Shep, our man on the field in the UK, this may be the first example of an inappropriate lowercase L that has actually been published and circulated. Look at track #9, AT lEAST IT WAS. You may be Thinking Out Loud, "Nothing Brings Me Down ... except an errant lowercase L!" In Shep's own words,

Just when I was despairing of ever finding a single example, along come two in almost as many weeks…

So, hot on the heels of the Williamsburg ‘PlEASE TAKE WHAT YOU WANT’ find, see attached photos of the sleeve of Emiliana Torrini’s cd ‘Fisherman’s Woman’ (released a couple of years ago, at least in the UK).

Slightly mystified as to the how and why this has happened (it’s repeated in the inner sleeve), but I can see at lEAST one oddity here…

I wouldn't be surprised if Emiliana Torrini sees a massive RECAll of her album. Serves her right. I bet she'll be more careful Next Time Around

Reader Gary Chapman found this one-of-a-kind beastly guitar, hand-painted by Eddie Van Halen and his 14 year old son, WOlFiE. Eddie may have been hot for his teacher, but it seems he wasn't paying attention to her during penmanship lessons. Actually, this example ain't the worst that I've seen (can't you see what I mean?), since the W is bigger than all the other letters, and the "i" is actually dotted, which makes the lowercase L less confusing.

I think of all the education that I missed. But then my homework was never quite like this.

Spinning Girl submits this fine lowercase L specimen found in Danbury, Connecticut, where, according to the window dressing, NY music is now lOCATED. And I had been wondering where it went, it's been so quiet here in Brooklyn!

Sometimes the randomly placed lowercase L seems to have no logic, but I may be able to explain the thought process behind this one. I think that the window dresser started writing "located" in all lower case, but by the time he hit "c", he forgot that he was writing in lowercase letters (since the lowercase "o" and "c" are just mini versions of their uppercase counterparts). So he finished the word with uppercase letters.