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Chocolate USA is best known as the first band of The Music Tapes' and Neutral Milk Hotel's Julian Koster. With Koster as singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter, he joined up with Liza Wakeman, Alan Edwards, Paul Wells and Keith Block under the name Miss America in 1989. After self-releasing cassettes to fans via their "Chocolaty Good Smash Hit of the Month Club," they were noticed by Bar None Records. Their first album, All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today, was released under the Chocolate USA banner after Miss America made legal threats. The lo-fi band released a second album under Bar None entitled Fog Machine, before disbanding for other, ultimately more successful, projects. Their sound can be described as quirky, and containing many different sorts of instrumentation, which is a trait that went with Koster into The Music Tapes and Neutral Milk Hotel; present in their releases are Guitars, Bass Guitars, Standup Basses, Accordions, Concertinas, Rattles, drums, robot sound effects [specifically on Fog Machine], organs, toy pianos, banjos, and numerous other instruments.

1 Releases
2 External links
- 2.1 Official Sites
- 2.2 Fan Sites

Releases

100 Feet Tall (7") - Bar/None - 1992
All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today (Cassette/CD) - Bar/None - 1992
Smoke Machine (CD/cassette) - Bar/None - 1994

External links

Official Sites

Chocolate USA's Bar/None Profile

Fan Sites

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Bands in the collective
The Apples in Stereo \| Beulah \| Black Swan Network \| Chocolate USA \| Circulatory System \| Dixie Blood Mustache \| Dressy Bessy \| Elf Power \| The Essex Green \| Frosted Ambassador \| The Gerbils \| The High Water Marks \| Major Organ and the Adding Machine \| Marbles \| The Minders \| The Music Tapes \| Neutral Milk Hotel \| The Olivia Tremor Control \| Orchestre Fantastique \| Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't \| Secret Square \| The Sunshine Fix \| ulysses \| Von Hemmling
Other notable bands and side projects
The American Revolution \| Bablicon \| Fablefactory \| Great Lakes \| A Hawk and a Hacksaw \| Icy Demons \| The Instruments \| Kingsauce \| The Ladybug Transistor \| The Late B.P. Helium \| M Coast \| Marta Tennae \| Calvin, Don't Jump! \| Midget and Hairs \| My First Keyboard \| Of Montreal \| Synthetic Flying Machine \| Thimble Circus \| Visitations \| The Diminisher
Projects subsequent to the E6 disbandment
The New Sound of Numbers \| Guignol \| Ham1 \| Lorkakar \| Folklore \| Supercluster \| Fabulous Bird \| Andy From Denver \| James Husband \| The Observatory \| Faster Circuits
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