Jasper Jams

Jasper Jams: Winter Break Releases

January 23, 2019

While you were catching up on sleep or with high school friends, traveling abroad, to the next state over or just staying on your local roads, everyone else kept on working, including musicians. The holiday season usually keeps everyone busy enough [...]

Jasper Jams: Study Music

November 28, 2018

In the last few weeks of the semester, with all of the projects, papers, quizzes, presentations and last minute tests, it’s important to get to work. I’ve practically been living in the library lately, all I’m missing is food and a shower [...]

Jasper Jams: Thanksgiving Music

November 14, 2018

The second the clock turned from 11:59 p.m. on October 31st to 12:00 a.m. on November 1st, my suite-mate started listening to Christmas music. I actually think she probably started listening to Christmas music before Halloween even happened. I, for [...]

Jasper Jams: The Art of the Movie Soundtrack

October 17, 2018

Great movies have great soundtracks. Terrible movies with good soundtracks become bearable. It’s undeniable that music impacts the viewer’s experience but often, viewers don’t realize or appreciate it. For this week’s Jasper Jams, I decided [...]

Jasper Jams: Who is Jordan Davis?

October 3, 2018

Student Engagement announced via Instagram that Jordan Davis will be performing at Family Weekend on Saturday, October 13th. While having a named performer is a welcome change from Manhattan College’s usual Family Weekend cover band that plays [...]

Jasper Jams: Rainy Day Playlist

September 19, 2018

by GABRIELLA DEPINHO, Asst. News Editor Whether or not you particularly believe in climate change and global warming or even the round earth theory, but it’s hard to deny that the weather has been weird lately. We’ve been oscillating between [...]

Jasper Jams: Songs Like The Chronicles of Narnia

April 1, 2018

For those of you who celebrate, Happy Easter and Happy Jasper Jams Sunday! For those of you who don’t celebrate Easter, Happy Jasper Jams Sunday! If you’ve never read the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, the most important thing to know about [...]

Jasper Jams: Dance Your Way Through Mid-Semester Blues

March 18, 2018

Despite there being a short Easter break coming in about a week and a half, the beloved spring break is coming to a close and we are undeniably in the trenches of the semester. Yes, midterms are in fact over, but now we don’t have spring [...]

Jasper Jams: Love Your Body, Love Yourself

March 4, 2018

Today is the last day of National Eating Disorder Awareness week. According to the National Eating Disorder Association website, 30 million Americans will struggle with a full-blown eating disorder and millions more will battle food and body image [...]

Jasper Jams: Who The Heck Is That?

February 18, 2018

Every now and then you’ll stumble upon a great musician online that you really love and if you ask anyone about them, no one has a clue who you’re talking about. You get obsessed with them and follow them closely, and some of them, you get to [...]