I'm so excited to announce the release my new EP album today! There are songs in this collection that are both deeply personal, internal type songs, as well as songs deeply critical and questioning of the outside world. It's impossible to have watched the news over this past couple years and not have had your heart broken or your hope challenged. These songs are my process of dealing with all the uncertainty and doubt in the world, as well as celebrating the love that is r

​Hi friends, I'm beyond excited to share with you that my newest album, the 5-song EP "Love and a Gun" will be available for download and purchase March 22nd at all online retailers, and we're kicking off the album release with a very intimate show at Brick 15 in Del Mar on March 25th. I can't wait to share it with you - 5 new songs that are deeply personal to me, and I hope will resonate with you as well. Like the title suggests, Love and a Gun is a mixture of mellow and

Some artists build their fan-base by hitting the road, relentlessly, tirelessly, club after pub after coffee shop after club, adding one or two or three fans at a time to the fan list - and I did that for a long time, and there were some amazing experiences to be had. But for the past several years, I've mostly stayed planted, right here in the Southern California region, sill relentlessly, tirelessly pursuing this crazy music dream. And the way this dream has shaped up and

Hi Everyone - I've been listening to 91X since I was in junior high school, mostly from afar, when we'd get to the beach from the Inland Empire, either in Orange County and definitely in San Diego, it was the first station I'd seek out. It always held that space in my memory as THE coolest station in existence. It had an allure, because I couldn't get it in my home town of Redlands, and it always couched our beach trips with the perfect atmosphere. That makes me all the mor

My reflections on the Album Release Show – I hereby dub thee my FRANS! [FRANS = a combination of the word Friends and Fans – yep, just made it up! ] A HUGE thank you and a run-down of what went-down on an amazing journey from adversity to beauty. My dear FRANS – “Life has a way of challenging you, just at the right time. It’s not bad luck, bad karma, bad anything, but there’s a reason to the rhyme.” - from the song “Release” My own lyrics to my own songs hit me like a ton

HI Friends - It was a wild week leading up to the release of my album "Inside Your Head" I had a wonderful interview and taped performance with the Union Tribune's George Varga that hit print and internet on Thursday. You can read and view here - http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/aug/14/michael-tiernan-interview/ On Saturday, I stopped by KUSI studios for the morning news show and had this really cool interview with Dan Plante chatting about the album and album release pa