Mae began playing with underground bands in
Olympia, Washington in the mid-1990s, including a single recording with Witchy Poo, and a period with
Kill Rock Stars artists
The Frumpies 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. 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. Mae is based in
Washington, D.C., where she continues to work as a musician and practitioner of
mysticism. ==Discography==