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.

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.