drummer

She got her start in music as a drummer in a local punk band called Ratón Pérez, which she joined at the age of 12.

The director credits his touring drummer, Scott Seiver, for helping him beat it.

Mr. McCraven, who just turned 42 years old, was born in Paris to a drummer father and vocalist mother, and was raised in western Massachusetts.

Years before the turning point of that album, though, Weinberg was growing up in Jersey, where he was “a gigging drummer” even as a child.

“We look at him like a general. It was never lost that the best drummer of our generation is playing drums with us,” Mackin said.