Michelle Mae

Michelle Mae
Background information
Birth name	Michelle Mae [1]
Origin	Washington, United States
Genres	Rock 'n' roll, post-punk
Occupation	Musician
Instrument(s)	Bass guitar, vocals
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Kill Rock Stars, Dischord, K, Southern

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.

Mae began playing with underground bands in Olympia, Washington in the mid-1990s, including a single recording with Witchy Poo,^[2] and a period with Kill Rock Stars artists The Frumpies^[3] 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]}

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]}

Mae is based in Washington, D.C., where she continues to work as a musician and practitioner of mysticism.^[4]

• Mixed Metaphor (Kill Rock Stars/5RC) (released 1995, recorded 1992–1994)

• Frumpie One Piece (Kill Rock Stars/5RC) (1998)

• Babies & Bunnies (Kill Rock Stars/5RC) (1993)
• Safety First (Wiiija) (1993)

• Destination: Love - Live! At Cold Rice (Dischord) (1996)
• Sound Verite (K Records) (1997)
• In Mass Mind (Dischord) (1998)
• Save Yourself (K Records) (1999)
• I Want Some (singles compilation) (K Records) (1999)

• After Dark (Dischord) (1997)
• Untouchable Sound - Live! (Drag City/Sea Note) (2006)

• Blue is Beautiful (included on In Film/On Video) (Dischord) (1998)
• In Film/On Video (Dischord) (2006)

• Weird War (Drag City) (2002)
• I Suck on that Emotion (as Scene Creamers) (Drag City) (2003)
• If You Can't Beat 'Em, Bite 'Em (Drag City) (2004)
• Illuminated by the Light (Drag City) (2005)

• appears on Burn to Shine 01: Washington DC 01.14.2004 (Trixie) (2005)

• Official Weird War website