Michelle Mae

{{Infobox musical artist

|name = Michelle Mae

|image = Michelle_Mae.jpg

|background = solo_singer

|birth_name = Michelle Mae {{cite web

|last = Gale

|first = Thomas

|title = The Make-Up Biography

|publisher = eNotes

|year = 2005

|url = http://arts.enotes.com/contemporary-musicians/make-up-biography

|accessdate = 2007-06-13

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20061115141446/http://arts.enotes.com/contemporary-musicians/make-up-biography

|archivedate = 2006-11-15

}}

|origin = Washington, United States

|genre = Rock 'n' roll, post-punk

|occupation = Musician

|years_active = 1990–present

|instrument = Bass guitar, vocals

|First_album =

|Latest_album =

|Notable_albums =

|Notable songs =

|label = Kill Rock Stars, Dischord, K, Southern

|associated_acts = Witchy Poo, The Frumpies, The Make-Up, Weird War, Scene Creamers

|website =

}}

Michelle Mae is an American musician from the state of Washington, who is known for playing in rock 'n' roll groups such as The Make-Up and Weird War.

Biography

Mae began playing with underground bands in Olympia, Washington in the mid-1990s, including a single recording with Witchy Poo,{{cite web

|title=Witchy Poo Recordings

|publisher=5 Rue Christine

|url=http://www.5rc.com/bands/witchypoo/recordings/

|accessdate=2007-05-23

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070123080620/http://www.5rc.com/bands/witchypoo/recordings/

|archivedate=2007-01-23

|url-status=dead

}} and a period with Kill Rock Stars artists The Frumpies{{cite web

|title=Frumpies

|publisher=Kill Rock Stars

|url=http://www.killrockstars.com/artists/viewartist.php?id=200

|accessdate=2007-05-23

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612022147/http://www.killrockstars.com/artists/viewartist.php?id=200

|archivedate=2007-06-12

}} before moving to Washington, D.C. to help form The Make-Up in 1995. After The Make-Up dissolved in 2000, Mae joined Weird War with some of her former Make-Up band mates.

Her style is heavily funk inflected, influenced by Funkadelic's Billy "Bass" Nelson, Larry Graham, and The Slits, as well as Northwest stalwarts Dead Moon.{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}}

Typically focusing on the bass guitar, in Weird War she plays a Fender Jazz Bass through a Sunn cabinet, though in The Make-Up she often played Hagström and Epiphone guitars through Kustom amplifiers.{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}}

Mae is based in Washington, D.C., where she continues to work as a musician and practitioner of mysticism.{{cite web

| last = Mae

| first = Michelle

| title = The Dignificant Worm

| publisher = Weird War

| date = 2005-02-20

| url = http://www.weirdwarworld.com/MM/

| accessdate = 2007-05-23

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070916070937/http://www.weirdwarworld.com/MM/

| archive-date = 2007-09-16

| url-status = usurped

}}