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But what if you’re writing on your own, without a band to jam with? Bob Dee, who’s played at Music Gorilla’s NYC and showcases during SXSW, says that the ambient sounds of the city that he heard from his Upper West Side apartment inspired the energy on his first two albums. Xenia, by contrast, told us that the calm and the landscape of the Greek island Mykonos had inspired her best work. Bob Dee and Xenia both talked about the diversity of their influences: Bob Dee likens his own songs to the GooGoo Dolls, but draws inspiration from the “dark sound” of meta