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Encyclopedia > Chocolate USA
Cover of Chocolate USA's debut album All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today.
Cover of Chocolate USA's debut album All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today.

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. Image File history File links Chocousajets. ... Image File history File links Chocousajets. ... The Music Tapes, an indie pop/experimental outfit from the U.S.A., are effectively the project of Elephant 6 member Julian Koster, also of Neutral Milk Hotel, and the earlier Chocolate U.S.A.. Music Tapes releases are characterised by their unusual orchestration (the singing saw and banjo are... Neutral Milk Hotel was a 90s American indie rock band. ... Leader of American indie bands Chocolate U.S.A. and the Music Tapes, as well as member of seminal indie legends Neutral Milk Hotel. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bar/None Records was a record label based out of Hoboken, New Jersey. ... Miss America contestants visit Andrews Air Force Base in 2003 For the two Golden Age patriotically-themed comic book superheroines, see Miss America (comics). ... Lo-fi — from Low Fidelity — describes a sound recording which contains accidental artifacts, like distortion, or environmental noise, or a recording which has a limited frequency response. ... The Music Tapes, an indie pop/experimental outfit from the U.S.A., are effectively the project of Elephant 6 member Julian Koster, also of Neutral Milk Hotel, and the earlier Chocolate U.S.A.. Music Tapes releases are characterised by their unusual orchestration (the singing saw and banjo are... Neutral Milk Hotel was a 90s American indie rock band. ...


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The Elephant Six Collective
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 Noted Bands and Side Projects
The American Revolution | Bablicon | Fablefactory | Great Lakes | A Hawk and a Hacksaw | Icy Demons | The Instruments | The Ladybug Transistor | The Late B.P. Helium | M Coast | Marta Tennae | Midget and Hairs | My First Keyboard | Of Montreal | Synthetic Flying Machine | Thimble Circus | Visitations
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