Rogue Valley is an American americana-rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, led by Chris Koza, with Peter Sieve, Luke Anderson, and Linnea Mohn. Already a prolific songwriter and performer, Koza envisioned a grandiose concept project: write and record four full-length albums, and release each one in consecutive seasons beginning in the spring of 2010. Working with his longtime musical comrades, the Spring album, “Crater Lake,” is being released on April 10th at a unique sho…

Claude says:Chris Koza's Minneapolis americana-rock outfit once attempted something audacious: four albums in four consecutive seasons, each chapter tracking a story along the West Coast, starting with Crater Lake recorded in a tiny northern Minnesota cabin. A lone track from the Walter Mitty soundtrack bounced around your library for years before False Floors finally clicked hard in October 2025—suddenly you were deep in their layered folk-rock, looping "Onward and Over" and the title track like you'd been waiting for them all along. The attention has cooled since spring, but it was real while it lasted.