The Ordinaires

When critics pull out names like Philip Glass, Captain Beefheart, Henry Mancini, Hüsker Dü and Stravinsky to describe the same group, its clear that ordinary is not the operative word. The Ordinaires are a nine-piece band that refuses to keep things neat and tidy for their listeners. Rather than assuming that music audiences need homogenized fodder in order to have fun, The Ordinaires challenge without being pretentious. One is the name of their newest release, their first for the Bar/None label.