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The mainstream hard rockers and hair bands of the 1980s certainly wouldn’t exist without Osbourne, but neither would more niche offshoots, like stoner rock, thrash metal, death metal and doom metal.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025

On “Ganger,” his breakout LP, he finds his bearings through all sorts of production styles, from bossa nova to stoner loops to wild vocal treatments, but his laconic delivery hides dense thickets of allusions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

If “The Big Lebowski” was a Raymond Chandler riff with a Los Angeles stoner for a protagonist, “Drive-Away Dolls” is their version of the 1955 noir “Kiss Me Deadly.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

Sheng Wang has a droll and relaxed delivery, which makes the focus and inventiveness of his material land even better — the happy chill of stoner musings contrasting with the rigor of precise observational comedy.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

Hippies are all over San Francisco, both the old stoner kinds with giant skanky beards and tie-dyes, and the new kind, who are more into dress-up and maybe playing hacky-sack than protesting anything.

From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Our heroes are outcasts and nerds, navigating a world of jocks, stoners and cool kids.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2022

But, as local historian Joe Nick Patoski said, one thing united hippies and rednecks, cowboys and stoners, slackers and geeks: music.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2020

In one sketch, they play 18th-century stoners recounting how awesome Mozart was on his 1763 tour, gushing like heavy-metal fans after an AC/DC concert.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2016

The fruit stoners, being the adventures of Maria among the fruit stoners. © 24Apr35; A81568.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Fire flames on my tongue; and though of old the Bactrian prophets were stoned, yet the stoners in oblivion sleep.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville