the.com/stoner rock

means A genre of fuzzed-out, down-tuned, repetitive guitar rock that grew out of 1990s desert jam sessions — slow, heavy, and built for getting blissfully lost in a riff.

from The term fuses two plainly literal halves: 'stoner,' slang for a habitual marijuana smoker dating back to mid-20th-century drug culture, and 'rock,' the music. The genre itself is tied to the Palm Desert scene of the late 1980s–90s, where bands like Kyuss plugged amps into generators out in the California desert and played loud, slow, fuzzed-out sets at illicit generator parties. Critics and fans later reached for 'stoner rock' as the obvious shorthand for music that sounded, and was often best enjoyed, thoroughly baked.