Named after NASA’s 1973 robotic space probe, LA’s psychedelic dance trio Pioneer 11 make music for a shapeshifting cosmos. With a new album “Humanoid” dropping in November, we can experience the celestial dreamscape known as “Destiny.”

Nation of Language co-founder Aidan Noell may be applying her master’s degree in history to her solo work. On “Sharevari,” Aidan colludes with LCD Soundsystem’s Nancy Whang to pay homage to and remake 1981’s archetypal Detroit techno track of the same name by A Number of Names , which helped launch the genre.

Earlier in the year, Moby launched his own record label, Always Centered at Night, as a sanctuary to house music that is more emotional and atmospheric. With ‘on air,’ Moby collaborates with experimental LA musician serpentwithfeet, who provides angelic vocals.

Singer/songwriter and producer Anna Wise won a Grammy Award right out of the gate with her debut album “As If It Were Forever” in 2019. But Anna’s music-centered life changed after the birth of her first child, and she found she had less space and energy to dedicate to her craft. “Time” introduces a new and evolving sound in less than two minutes.

KCRW’s Global Beat: Mexico recently highlighted emerging artists from the Gulf state of Veracruz, which included music from Vico Diaz, a master of the leona, the guitar-shaped, four-stringed fretted instrument that acts like a bass, played in that region. A composer and explorer of traditional Mexican music who seeks out elusive new sounds, Diaz brings us a tropical, jazzy “Sapo,” or “frog,” replete with the instrument of Chiapas, the marimba.

The convergence of legendary Grammy- and Oscar-winning producer/artist T Bone Burnett, master drummer Jay Bellerose, and composer/keyboardist Keffus Ciancia brings together a holy musical trinity. From the booming opening notes, you can feel the tribal trance that speaks to a larger truth on “I’m Starting A New Life Today.”

We recently warned you about Lava LaRue on 5 Songs To Hear This Week . West London rapper Lava La Rue cut a chrysalis 5-track EP, “Hi-Fidelity,” about creative transition. The multi-hyphenate talent hits hard on “Don’t Trip.”

If you were at Thee Sacred Souls show at KCRW’s Summer Nights at the Hammer, you know they deliver. Recorded in Riverside, their self-titled debut album is an ear-catching, heart-grabbing love fest. We like to sway to “Easier Said Than Done.”

A shapeshifting free spirit with an old soul, Dora Jar, pollinates the airwaves from the point of view of a “Bumble Bee . ” C heck out a perky pop song from this LA based singer.

Hailing from New Zealand, singer Marlon Williams infuses his pop-inflected song “My Boy” with Maori strums and a new backing band.

“The urge to turn every song on the planet into a Māori strummer descended on me like a fever sometime during the long and winding tour cycle of ‘Make Way for Love,’” Williams says. “So writing it into my artistic life became the only way to get the fever to lift.”