Jenn Rourke (Ninja) has been a radio DJ since 2001. Ninja first became interested in radio at age 7, listening to Casey Kasem's countdown every Sunday. As a teenager, Ninja's radio obsession shifted to the Dr. Demento Show, Loveline, and several Chicago-based music shows.
The radio name Ninja dates back to 2004 while interning at a Chicago morning show, because at the time, Ninja also operated MidwestNinja - an automated streaming radio station that played only Midwestern artists.
In past lives, Ninja hosted lots of radio shows, including The 2 Blondes Coutdown (countdown show - check), The Dysfunctional Jukebox (comedy music show - check); wrote a column called Hell on Stilts (giving advice to strangers - check), and got fired from writing said column (everyone in radio gets fired at least once - check).
Listen to Ninja's two most recent shows below.
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5/5 - 10am hour
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10:49am
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Jlin
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Eye Am
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Akoma (Planet Mu)
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10:40am
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Valebol Local
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Netuchepa!
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Valebol (Otherly Love)
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10:37am
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Art Brut
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DC Comics And Chocolate Milkshake
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Top Of The Pops (The End)
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10:34am
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Paul Westerberg
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Things
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14 Songs (Sire)
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10:30am
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Ty Segall
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Freedom
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Ty Segall (Drag City)
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Track Notes: @ Thalia Hall tomorrow
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10:27am
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A Certain Ratio
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Keep It Real
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It All Comes Down to This (Mute)
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10:25am
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Neko Case Local
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Things That Scare Me
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Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
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10:20am
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Bee Gees
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My Thing
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Cucumber Castle (Polydor)
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10:17am
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Funkadelic
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I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing
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Funkadelic (Westbound)
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10:15am
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Phil Harris
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The Thing
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The Best of Phil Harris (Vintage Jukebox)
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10:07am
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Seafood Sam
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Can't Take the Hood To Heaven
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Standing on Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
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10:02am
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Einstürzende Neubauten
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Before I go (Before I go)
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Rampen: apm (alien pop music) (Potomak)
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5/5 - 9am hour
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9:58am
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Pileup
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Running Around
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PDX Pop Now! Vol. 20 (PDX Pop Now!)
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9:55am
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Paola Prestini & Nelson Patton Duo
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Rites and Rituals
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Ancient City (VisionIntoArt)
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9:48am
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The Muffs
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Paint By Numbers
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Whoop Dee Doo (Burger)
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9:43am
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Céu
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Raiou
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Novela (Urban Jungle/ONErpm)
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9:40am
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Bishop Allen
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Click, Click, Click, Click
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The Broken String (Dead Oceans)
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9:34am
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John Hiatt
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Wind Don't Have to Hurry
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Terms of My Surrender (New West)
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Track Notes: @ SPACE tonight
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9:32am
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Bloodhype Local
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Cortex
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Equation of time (self-released)
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9:27am
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Iron & Wine
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You Never Know
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Light Verse (Sub Pop)
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9:22am
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Half Gringa Local
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1990
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Force to Reckon (self-released)
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9:22am
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Bullion
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A City's Never (featuring Panda Bear)
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Affection (Ghostly International)
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Track Notes: Nathan Jenkins, a UK producer and songwriter with credits on Carly Rae Jepsen, Ben Howard, Nilüfer Yanya and Avalon Emerson records
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9:18am
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The Polyphonic Spree
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Popular by Design
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Yes, It's True (Kirtland)
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9:08am
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The Curls Local
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Chickens
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Smothered & Covered (Truth Zone)
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4/28 - 11am hour
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11:52am
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Death Cab for Cutie
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I Will Possess Your Heart
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Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)
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11:48am
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Cakes Da Killa
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Cakewalk
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Black Sheep (Young Art)
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11:46am
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Maggie Rogers
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If Now Was Then
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Don't Forget Me (Debay/Capitol)
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11:42am
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James Brown
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Night Train
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Star Time (Polydor)
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11:37am
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Jukebox The Ghost
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Somebody
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Safe Travels (Yep Roc)
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11:37am
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Sturgill Simpson
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Sea Stories
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A Sailor's Guide To Earth (Atlantic)
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