What the hell did I just stumble across?

Hey. I’m Jon Tanners. I used to write about music all the time for Pigeons and Planes. I occasionally wrote for Complex, SMASHD (RIP), Brick Mag (still got one of these at my mom’s house if you want it), and Respect Magazine’s blog (they wiped my bylines because I was an intern who wouldn’t sign their weird NDA/intern agreement, shoutout to them). I’ve had a pretty odd path in music: A writer / quasi-journalist, A&R, publisher, record label co-founder, and manager.

Applied Science was born in 2019, the unlikely wake of my father’s passing. I experienced an intense burst of creativity that, for whatever reason, manifested itself in scattered attempts to figure out the music industry.